{"text": "Chances are, if you’ve attended an event with a performance by a belly dancer, you’ve witnessed Hip Expressions’ training in action. The studio, founded in 2004 by Johanna “Xenobia” and Karen Sun Ray, hosts classes, performances and workshops at its newly expanded studio and has been an active participant in community fundraisers and other civic events. Women of all shapes, bodies, sizes and ages are welcome. Hip Expressions, in conjunction with St. Petersburg Nights Russian Dinner Theatre, hosts a monthly belly dance showcase at 6800 Sunset Way, St. Pete Beach. The studio is at 2033 54th Ave. N., Suite B., St. Petersburg, 727-251-5241, hip-expressions.com.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Stonebridge Books on Main Street in Ashland City played host to live music with a mix of performers from age seven to 70 recently.\nThe kids kicked off the event with several young ladies performing a variety of songs by Christian artist Lauren Daigle as well as a fun rendition of “Let It Go” from the 2013 award-winning animated film “Frozen.”\nAlso performing was Christian singer-songwriter, Lanier Ferguson, who wrote the first song released by Christian pop star Amy Grant called “Beautiful Music.”\nOther artists to cover his songs include Christian artist Larnelle Harris and country rock and gospel crossover artist B.J. Thomas.\nFerguson’s vocals and inspired touch at the keyboard provided a moving, spirit of praise and worship.\nHost-technician Bill Douglas entertained as well, along with Robert Strange who was accompanied by Lynn Ray.\nStonebridge owner Joann Ray said that similar musical events would be held on the third Saturday night of each month at 7 p.m.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Blues guitar courses\nAt S & C, we are fascinated by blues guitar playing and it would be an immense pleasure for us to share our passion with you as an adult blues enthusiast. B.B. King, Eric Clapton & Stevie Ray Vaughan are such fantastic blues guitarists that you deserve to benefit from the highest guitar instruction to be able to play in their unique music fashion. If it is your dream, you are, therefore, most welcome to join our excellent blues guitar courses for adults.\nThanks to the vast experience and outstanding knowledge of our exceptional guitar instructors, we are pleased to provide you with excellent guitar courses that are suitable for all blues guitar lovers, whatever their current guitarist abilities. Blues guitar playing is a very particular style that demands to be studied with the highly experienced blues guitar instructors available at S & C.\nPlay the blues like B.B. King, Eric Clapton & Stevie Ray Vaughan\nBy attending a fantastic blues guitar course at S & C, you will surely learn all the secrets of blues playing as used by the greatest guitarists of all times. You will study all the rhythmical and melodic possibilities that blues guitar offers, discover the embellishments of the I-IV-V blues progression, learn how to create your own guitar licks and how to play across the entire fingerboard seamlessly!\nMastering blues riffs, as well as the pentatonic and blues scale, will also be part of your education. In addition, we will show you blues classics and help you improve your own blues guitar phrasing and solos!\nBenefit from the guidance of an expert blues guitar instructor\nLearn all the secrets of blues guitar playing as used by the giants\nImprove your technical and musical blues knowledge\nStudy in a non-judgmental and encouraging environment\nMake fast progress thanks to our wonderful result-oriented methods\nAt S & C, adults from all levels and abilities are welcome to attend our fantastic blues guitar courses. Whether you are an absolute beginner, a classical guitarist who is interesting in exploring further or a blues guitarist keen to improve your current skills, we are pleased to offer you the most excellent blues guitar courses available in Dubai and the UAE. We can assure you that you will be in good hands and that blues guitar playing will soon have no secrets for you!\nS & C invites adults from all walks of life to study the guitar and improve their skills in a wonderful environment that has been specially created for them. Whether you are an absolute beginner without any prior musical knowledge, an intermediate player or an advanced amateur guitarist, you are welcome to join and improve your skills with highly qualified and experienced instructors.\nOur guitar lessons for adults takes place weekly on a set day and time in our gorgeous premises in Park Lane Tower, DIFC.\nThe lessons are 45-minutes in duration and can be joined at any time during the year. (Longer lessons can be arranged on request)\nAs various slots are available during workdays up to 21:00 as well as on Saturdays, please contact our manager Celine at email@example.com to choose the most convenient time for you to attend.\nAs all our guitar lessons for adults are highly personalised and tailored to the needs and wishes of each, you are welcome to decide whether you would like to sit the ABRSM grade examinations.\nWe totally understand that you play the guitar for your pleasure and enjoyment so this decision is totally optional.\nWe do not follow a set syllabus but rather adapt to each of our students as everyone is different and requires special attention.\nWe require an initial four-month attendance as we believe that it is the minimum amount of time an adult should study at S & C to benefit fully from our excellent guitar instruction. After this initial period, you are welcome to continue your guitar education on an on-going basis, but lessons are still booked per four months in advance.\nFrequently asked questions\nYou are most welcome to join S & C even if you are an absolute beginner without any prior musical experience. Our guitar courses are designed for adults who are brand new to music so no previous knowledge is necessary to join. Learning how to read music notation and theory will be part of your guitar course so there is nothing to worry about.\nDefinitely not. We believe that there is no age limit to learn and enjoy playing the guitar for your own pleasure.\nOf course! You are most welcome to give it a try and book an introductory lesson to find out if playing the guitar is really what you want to do. Be reassured that there is no need to possess any talent to join S & C. We believe that all adults are able to play the guitar thanks to the expert guidance of our excellent guitar instructors.\nYou do not need to own a guitar to start your guitar course as the purchase of the most suitable instrument for you to begin your education can be discussed with your instructor during your first guitar lesson. He or she will be able to make a recommendation and advise on the best guitar store to visit.\nAbsolutely! S & C is entirely dedicated to adults who wish to play for their pleasure and enjoyment so you are more than welcome to join.\nYou definitely need to practice if you intend to make any progress. Attending your guitar lessons will offer you the guidance and feedback needed to improve in the right direction but a personal daily practice is necessary to enhance your guitar skills.\nIt all depends on your current guitaristic level. As a complete beginner, you can start with 15 minutes each day to get into the habit of practising on a daily basis. It should then increase to 30 minutes quite rapidly as you will need enough time to review and improve the material that has been studied during your guitar lessons.\nNot at all. All our guitar instructors have been selected for their remarkable understanding of adults who play the guitar for their own pleasure. They are, therefore, extremely patient, kind and supportive. We can assure you that your instructor will never judge, patronise or criticise you negatively.\nYes, we do offer preparation to the ABRSM grade examinations from grade 1 to grade 8, but sitting the exams is not compulsory.\nIt is an extremely difficult question to answer as it all depends on your abilities and the exact goal that you have in mind. As per our experience, we can, however, say that you should be able to play some exquisite simple guitar pieces after a few lessons only.\nThe duration of your guitar course depends on your personal goal after attending for a minimum of 4 months. Your lessons will then take place on an ongoing basis until you are satisfied with your guitar playing or unable to pursue your education.\nOf course. If you are a proficient guitarist, we would certainly recommend that you inform us prior to the beginning of your course. It should, therefore, be booked with one of our senior guitar instructors, who definitely possess the right set of skills and experience to help you improve further.\nAbsolutely. We know how daunting it can be for a classically trained guitarist to step into jazz guitar playing and we would be delighted to support you in your endeavour.\nAs we do not follow a set syllabus but prefer adapting to each in order to provide you with the most suitable guitar education possible, the content of our guitar lessons depends on your current abilities, wishes and style studied.\nAt S & C, we understand that it can be difficult for some busy professionals to attend their guitar lessons on a set day and time each week. We will be happy to accommodate you but please inform us before signing up as any special request is subject to an extra fee and availability.\nHow to enrol\nIt is very straight forward to enrol at S & C by either contacting our manager Celine Gaurier-Joubert directly at firstname.lastname@example.org, or via our contact form. We will endeavour to get back to you within one or two working days.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "American baritone Troy Cook made notable debuts in past seasons as Ford in Hamburgische Staatsoper’s Falstaff, following his debut with the company as Marcello in La bohème, and with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte.\nTroy Cook begins the 2017-2018 season creating the role of John Cree in the world premiere of Elizabeth Cree with Opera Philadelphia. He bows as Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor with Florida Grand Opera, Rodrigo in Don Carlo with Washington National Opera, and Falke in Die Fledermaus with Utah Opera. He also appears in concert with the Charlotte Symphony and Memphis Symphony for Handel’s Messiah.\nMr. Cook began the 2016-2017 season in performances with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City as Peter in Hansel und Gretel, and Atlanta Opera to reprise the role of Father Palmer in Silent Night. He debuted the San Diego Opera as Ford in Falstaff, sang the title role in Eugene Onegin with Syracuse Opera, and made a debut with Washington National Opera as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly. He also appeared with the Portland Symphony for Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem and with the Phoenix Symphony for Handel’s Messiah. During the summer of 2017, he returned to Des Moines Metro Opera, singing Frederick in A Little Night Music, and joined the Hong Kong Philharmonic as the baritone soloist for the Carmina Burana.\nIn the 2015-2016 season, Mr. Cook performed the role of Jupiter in Virginia Opera’s production of Orpheus in the Underworld, followed by debuts with the Dallas Opera as de Bretigny in Manon, Austin Opera as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and the Macau Festival as Valentin in Faust. On the concert stage, he sang Messiah with the Pacific Symphony and the Indianapolis Symphony. He spent the summer with Des Moines Metro Opera for their 2016 Summer Festival, singing de Bretigny in Manon and Young Galileo in Galileo Galilei.\nThe 2014-2015 season brought important role debuts for the baritone, including Germont in La Traviata with Central City Opera and a critically acclaimed Rodrigo in Don Carlo with Opera Philadelphia. He appeared in Lady Be Good at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, made his company debut with Utah Opera as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, and returned to the role of the Marquis de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites with both the Portland and Winston-Salem Symphonies. Additionally, he debuted with the San Francisco Symphony for Handel’s Messiah, and appeared in concert with both the Portland Symphony and AZ Music Fest.\nThe 2013-2014 season brought performances as Paolo in Simon Boccanegra with Kentucky Opera, Riccardo in Boston Lyric Opera’s I puritani, Marcello in La bohème with Pittsburgh Opera and North Carolina Opera, and the Marquis de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites with Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Mr. Cook also appeared in concert with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and Winston Salem Symphony. He closed the season as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music with Central City Opera.\nDuring the 2012-2013 season, Troy Cook appeared as Marcello in La bohème and Father Palmer in Silent Night with Opera Philadelphia, in Handel’s Messiah with the Boise Philharmonic, and Lord Cecil in Maria Stuarda with Washington Concert Opera. He concluded the season with a debut as Silvio in Pagliacci with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and in a return to Central City Opera as Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat.\nPrevious highlights include creating the role of Father Palmer in the world premiere of Silent Night with Minnesota Opera; Marcello in La bohème with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Florida Grand Opera, Berkshire Opera, Semperoper Dresden, and Opera Philadelphia; Lescaut in Manon Lescaut with Opera Philadelphia; the Count in Le nozze di Figaro with Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Escamillo in Carmen with the Green Mountain Opera Festival; Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with Opera Philadelphia and Berkshire Opera; Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor with Las Palmas Opera and Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with Santa Fe Opera and Toledo Opera; Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles with Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Opera Carolina; Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Omaha, San Francisco Opera and Fort Worth Opera; Mr. Flint in Billy Budd with San Francisco Opera; Albert in Werther with Kentucky Opera; and Giacomo in Beatrix Cenci with Grand Théâtre de Genève. He has also appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, Opera Bilbao, Opera Pacific, and La Monnaie, Brussels.\nEqually in demand on the concert stage, Mr. Cook has appeared with the Pacific Symphony, Arizona Musicfest, Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Winstom-Salem Symphony, the American Ballet Theater, the LA Philharmonic, San Antonio Symphony, and the Marilyn Horne Foundation.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hi! I am learning to create backing tracks with violin chords, and I got the Strings plugin which I use inside Ableton. My question is, what exactly happens when I press a key using the Strings plugin? Let's say I play the note C on the keyboard, does that means it will play the C Major Chord (C, E and G)? Or are there 3 violins playing the note C all together?\nIf so, should I use a MIDI effect to try and multiply the number of strings and shift them up 4 semitones to get the note E, and then another 7 semitones to get the note G? The plugin display shows me about 18 \"voices\" when add this effect in Ableton.\nI thought orchestral accompaniments usually had many more violins, like 30 or so. Anyway, what would be your advice to get a good backing track made of chords, using the Strings plugin?\nPlease sign in to leave a comment.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Pianist Atsuko Seta Biography\nIn 1977 Atsuko Seta graduated from the Department of Music, Piano Course, Osaka Kyoiku University. In 1978, she completed a Postgraduate Course, starting her career as a pianist, mentored by Argentine pianist Eduardo Delgado. She also studied at the International Academy Friedrich Wilhelm Schnurre in Sion, Switzerland in 1991 and has performed concertos in the country.\nIn 1996, Atsuko won the Top prize of the Masterplayers International Music Competition in Italy. Her talent has been noticed by the president conductor Maestro Schumacher.\n“This phenomenal Japanese pianist has played to standing ovations. One of the greatest pianists I have ever heard !” (Richard Schumacher)\nSince 1997, she has performed in Europe every year, especially Piano Concertos with Sudety Philharmonic in Poland.\n“Extraordinary technique exceptional sound and dynamic impetuous temperament”\nIn 2003, Atsuko Seta received the Music Critic Club Prize, which is given to the most active musician in West Japan. In 2004, she received the IBLA Grand Prize Ginastera Special Award in Italy. In 2003 and 2004, she began performing piano concertos with the Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra, the first Japanese pianist to do so.\nIn 2005 she visited the United States, performing in Los Angeles and New York City, giving Ginastera recitals at the Yamaha Center and at Carnegie Hall and New York University during which she performed Ginastera Sonata No.1 amongst others.\n“ Japanese Pianist Atsuko Seta is one of the true highlights of the evening, she is obviously in love with the music of the 20th Century Argentinean master Alberto Ginastera. She presents his music with such abandon and high-wattage enthusiasm,smiling with such delight in what she is creating.” (Jeffrey James)\nIn 2006, Atsuko performed premiere Ginastera Piano Concerto No.1 with Sudecka Philharmonic in Poland. In 2007, Grieg Piano Concerto with Sofia Philharmonic in Bulgaria. In 2011, Chopin Piano Concerto No.1 with Osaka Doctor’s Philharmonic in Japan. In 2012 Rechmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 with Ternopil Philharmonic in Ukraine. In 2013, Solo Recital in Italy and Germany. In 2014, Solo Recital in Holland.\nIn 2016, Chopin Piano Concerto No.1 with Ternopil Philharmonic in Ukraine, Ginastera Recital at Leipzig Hochschule “ Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ” in Germany.\nIn 2017 Beethoven Piano Concerto No5 with Hanoi Philharmonic Orcestra in Vietnam.\nSince 2008, she has been living in Thailand Chiangmai with her husband, performing many Solo Recitals and Piano Concertos with Chiangmai Philharmonic Orchestra. Currently teaching as a guest professor at Payap University Music Department. In April 2015, she organized Japan Concert Tour with her students, this was aired on Japanese TV. She founded Chiangmai Ginastera International Music Competition in 2016, be working wonderfully as an artistic director.\n2018 She moved to Poland Szczawno-Zdroj where she was awarded the title of honorary citizen.\nOfficial Website http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/atsuko1/\nPrize and Jury\n1993 Best Soloist Prize of All Japan Musician’s Association Competition\n1996 Masterplayers Prize of Masterplayers International Music Competition in Italy\n2003 Music Critic Club Prize in Japan\n2004 IBLA GRAND PRIZE in Italy <Ginastera Special Award>\n1996 A Jury of Classic Music Competition in Japan\n1997~1999 A Jury of Masterplayers International Music Competition in Swizerland\n2014 A Jury of Hong Kong International Music Competition for young pianists in China\n2016-2017 A Jury of Chiangmai Ginastera International Music Competition in Thiland\n2017 A Jury of Rovere d’Oro International Music Competition in Italy\n2018 A Jury of Scriabin International Piano Competion in Italy", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "FOR SINGERS, SONGWRITERS & PERFORMERS\nJoining the music business 40 odd years ago, I started out as a gigging musician but then strayed into artist management, songwriting and audio production.\nThough I’d been running a home studio for some time it wasn’t until 1998 that Brick Hit House studio was born. At that time I’d signed a deal with an LA based music publisher and I felt it was important to give my studio an identity.\nFor me at least that’s when the studio really became a production facility for writers and singers.\nIT’S YOUR VISION\nWhether you need to hire the studio for a quick vocal session or require a ‘full monty’ production it’s all about making sure we understand what you want to achieve and making it happen!\nFeel free to call if you need more information or would like to drop in for a chat.\nIn the meantime check out the rest of the website or follow me on Facebook", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Welcome to Audiko, where it’s possible to download hot ringtones for your mobile phone. Today we have a ringtone of “don't let the music end” by radio killer as well as 444 other ringtones by radio killer. You can listen to all 11 radio killer – “don't let the music end” ringtone variations available here and download it for free to your computer. You can also get other 25 albums produced by radio killer for all time. “don't let the music end” is referred to Dance, and you may listen to a huge amount of Dance albums absolutely for free. And finally, we have collected lyrics for this track and you can view it here as well. So feel free to browse, listen, download ringtones at Audiko.net. Make your phone sound cool!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Nghề nghiệp: Piano teacher\nKinh nghiệm giảng dạy: Over 5 years' experience teaching the piano to beginners and intermediate students.\nSở thích: Music, travel, society and culture and current events.\nGiáo dục: Associate Diploma in Music Performance (Australian Music Examinations Board), Certificate III in Business Administration, Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing)\nNgôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh (Bản ngữ)\nVideo Hồ sơ:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I have figured out what is going on–why the mix does not sound good on some playback devices.\nI took my friend’s stereo and mastered mix of his recording and imported it as two stereo tracks on my Tascam hard disk recorder. After recording my melodica part, I panned the original song tracks left and right during the mixdown and mastering (as you would expect). If I centered the pan of the two stereo tracks, they would cancel each other out and all I would hear is the reverb from the tracks.\nAfter mixing and mastering the recording with my mono melodica track added, the result sounded good on discrete stereo equipment and headphones. If however, I played the track back on any audio equipment where any part of the stereo tracks were combined: mono systems, systems using surround sound decoding, Bose equipment where a single channel is often created for some frequencies, etc., the left and right tracks of the original recording would fully or partially cancel themselves out, resulting a mix with very little bass and/or unbalanced frequency response.\nSo for posterity, I am going to try again to mix the recording using a different technique. I think I am also going to create mix where the backing music is panned hard left and the melodica is panned hard right. This would enable you to listen to just the melodica track and hear the modulations.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Message:Montero Sport Commercial song is... Posted by: Beth on Saturday 03/30/02\nJust to let everyone know, the song in the commercial where the two guys are singing is called 20th Century Boy. It's originally by T Rex but covered by Placebo for the commercial. You can download it at KaZaA.com. Enjoy!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "B1A4 – Baby Good Night Learn more dances by: B1A4, Boy Groups Add comments Mar 032013 Support B1A4 by ordering the album! credit: mlrrorX@YouTube credit: iampetzy@YouTube credit: mirrcrHD@YouTube Tweet mirrorHD lol what did I do to this post :D (fixed it now but first I accidentally pasted the yt link in 2 places >..<) Petz nvm, it was an mbc block =| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKDItsGe6CY it got the same recognition as yours though mirrorHD Hmm, I have no idea, I found that our favorite person (karina whoever video stealer) already made (or stole) a version and had to edit the audio to total chipmunk so I just kept the performance one. I didn’t even bother watching her version just cuz NEVER adding anything of hers here! >.< But feel free to use my audio, tho I've also had things blocked even if I used someone's audio that wasn't blocked, no idea how it works. This one also got recognized as: \"잘자요 굿나잇\", musical composition administered by: One or more music publishing rights collecting societies – whatever that means… I don't know how much you can change settings in iMovie, but try speeding it up to 103% – that usually works for me and it sounds almost right (raises the pitch a bit). I think messing up the timing a little helps? Petz How’d you do that? I changed my audio to live vr. but it still gets blocked… ARGH!!!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "‘Stomp’ to reopen in July, posting earliest New York theatre reopening date\nPerformances will resume at the Orpheum Theatre from July 20.\nEven though Governor Cuomo stated that theatres can reopen with full capacity from September 14, some shows have posted a reopening date before then. Stomp is the latest show to announce a reopening, with performances at the Orpheum Theatre from July 20. Find out more about Stomp tickets in New York here.\nStomp celebrates the percussion music that can derive from non-typical instruments, such as buckets, sticks and garbage can lids. The production opened at the Orpheum Theatre in 1994, where it's played ever since.\nWith Stomp opening from July 20, Stomp will be the first production to open in New York with a full capacity audience. Discover all off-Broadway shows opening in 2021 here.\nPhoto credit: Stomp (Photo by Steve McNicholas)\nOriginally published on", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Styles & Forms | Western Swing | Country\nWestern swing is an innovative, free-wheeling yet complex instrumental amalgam drawn from blues, jazz and Dixieland syncopations and harmonies. Central to the style is an emphasis on instrumental solos, often involving the transposition of jazz-style horn parts to fiddle, guitar and steel guitar.\nIt is indicative of western swing’s sophistication that Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, the definitive western swing band, included at various times a Dixieland drummer (Smokey Dacus), a jazz piano player (Al Stricklin) and a jazz-flavoured guitarist (Eldon Shamblin). Wills’ innovations with his long-time band The Texas Playboys were crucial to the emergence of this hybrid music that merged horns and the free-wheeling, improvisatory spirit of jazz big bands with country fiddle music and elements of honky-tonk instrumentation like the electric guitar, steel guitar and twin fiddles.\nRivaling Wills’ influence in establishing and propagating early western swing was his fellow Texan and one-time band mate, Milton Brown – the two played together briefly in the early 1930s as part of a trio called The Aladdin Laddies, and later The Light Crust Doughboys. Brown and his band The Musical Brownies were, until Brown’s untimely death in a car accident in 1936, pioneers of a number of the genre’s essential ingredients, including New Orleans jazz rhythms, twin fiddles playing in harmony, slap-bass fiddle playing and some of the earliest uses of electrified instruments in country music. Brown, just as importantly, brought a smooth and rhythmic vocal style to western swing that drew more heavily from jazz masters like Jack Teagarden and Cab Calloway than from country sources. He also recorded and popularized songs like ‘Right Or Wrong’ and ‘Corrine Corrina’ that still endure as western swing standards. Unfortunately, without Brown, The Brownies’ innovations ceased and the band’s popularity quickly waned.\nDoughboys And Playboys\nBob Wills’ career began modestly in 1929 when a trio he’d formed landed a spot on a Fort Worth, Texas radio station. In the early 1930s, as he moved on to larger radio stations and his budget increased, Wills added additional players (including Milton Brown) to his band, which was called at various times the Aladdin Laddies and The Light Crust Doughboys (depending on what company was sponsoring his show at the time). In Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1934 the name Texas Playboys finally stuck for good. By then Wills had further expanded his instrumental line-up to include two fiddles, two guitars and a bass, piano and banjo. Four years later, he had boosted the band to 14 members, including a third fiddle, two saxophones and a trumpet player.\nBy 1935, after more personnel shuffles, Wills assembled what some consider to be the most talented line-up of Playboys. Players included vocalist Tommy Duncan, banjo player Johnnie Lee Wills, bass player Son Lansford, trumpeter Everett Stover, saxophonist Zeb McNally, guitarist Herman Arnspiger, trombonist Art Haines, fiddler Jesse Ashlock, steel guitarist Leon McAuliffe, guitarist Sleepy Johnson, drummer Smokey Dacus, piano player Al Stricklin and Wills himself, also...\nAn extensive music information resource, bringing together the talents and expertise of a wide range of editors and musicologists, including Stanley Sadie, Charles Wilson, Paul Du Noyer, Tony Byworth, Bob Allen, Howard Mandel, Cliff Douse, William Schafer, John Wilson...\nClassical, Rock, Blues, Jazz, Country and more. Flame Tree has been making encyclopaedias and guides about music for over 20 years. Now Flame Tree Pro brings together a huge canon of carefully curated information on genres, styles, artists and instruments. It's a perfect tool for study, and entertaining too, a great companion to our music books.\nThe ultimate story of a life of rock music, from the 1950s to the present day.\nFantastic new, unofficial biography covers\nhis life, music, art and movies, with a\nsweep of incredible photographs.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Have you ever wished that you could sing more professionally? If yes, then you’d benefit from singing voice lessons. But a quick word of warning before you jump in head first. Many people try learning to sing and then give up without achieving the results they’d hoped for. Here are some tips to keep in mind, if you’d like to get the most from your singing lessons:\nChoose The Right Vocal Coach\nIn order to get maximum benefit from your vocal lessons, you first need to be able to identify a professional vocal coach. The best vocal coaches will help you systematically develop and strengthen your voice so that by the end of each lesson you will feel closer to your goal of becoming a star singer. Your singing coach should be able to accurately identify your most important problems and then help you improve your singing by recommending the right sequence of vocal exercises for you. For tips on finding a great voice teacher in your area, check out this article about: finding a voice teacher . In addition, this article about finding a vocal coach provides a useful list of questions to ask a prospective voice teacher to help you make the best possible decision.\nCome To Your Lessons Prepared\nYou’ll get the most from your singing lessons if you arrive prepared. This means you should have come up with a list of questions that you’d like your voice teacher to address. Not only will you gain more this way, but you coach will be inclined to take you more seriously. Your coach will be much more motivated to help you when he or she notices your genuine interest in wanting to learn more. As a result your singing lessons will be more interactive and fun.\nAs They Say: Practice Makes Perfect\nOf course practice is perhaps the single most important way to benefit from vocal singing lessons and this means that you need to set time aside to practice the techniques taught to you by your vocal coach. Learning to sing well is very similar to learning to play an instrument. The more regularly you practice, the sooner it will become second nature.\nTry To Be Patient\nA healthy dose of patience is another vital ingredient to mastering your singing voice. Singing in key and hitting the right notes is an art and takes time to perfect. So you’ll need patience if you’re to persevere and reach your singing goals. Don’t expect to be an overnight success but stick at it and you will reach your goals.\nDon’t Forget To Have Fun\nLast but not least, to make real progress you need to enjoy your vocal singing lessons. Don’t treat your singing as a duty but rather as something that you enjoy doing. Don’t overdo it and it should remain motivating and fun. With the right attitude and mindset you will gain a lot from your lessons but just remember not to get so wound up in it that you forget to have fun!\nWhat Are Your Alternatives?\nAlthough private vocal singing lessons are a great way to improve your singing, they have one major drawback – they’re pricey! The expense of vocal coaching adds up quickly. That’s why more and more singers are opting for online and home study singing lessons to teach themselves how to sing. The best online singing lessons are inexpensive and an effective alternative to private singing lessons. Here you can get reviews of the best home singing lessons", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Designed to support teachers in developing new strategies and pedagogies for teaching music, and for teacher education students requiring a comprehensive overview of the subject, Teaching Secondary Music provides a modern and accessible of key issues in music education at secondary level.\nFocusing on the nature of musical understanding and how to facilitate and assess musical progress, the editors bring together a team of experienced music educators leading the program of support for the secondary curriculum.\nSupported with practical examples, case studies and resources exploring effective practice, Teaching Secondary Music covers the key concepts and approaches which underpin good practice in secondary music education. These include:\nHow music relates to other curriculum subjects; Ways of implementing newer aspects of the curriculum; The music industry and intellectual property rights; Working with a range of musicians; Using ICT as a tool for musical performance; Developing musical leadership\nThis book is essential reading for PGCE Secondary music specialists and practicing music teachers.\nPart 1: Exploring Music through the Curriculum\n- Chapter 1: The Key Concepts for Musical Teaching\n- Chapter 2: The Key Processes of Musical Learning\n- Chapter 3: Cross-Curricular Approaches in Music Education\n- Chapter 4: Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills and Functional Skills\nPart 2: Establishing Music in the Classroom\n- Chapter 5: Developing Performing Opportunities\n- Chapter 6: The Role of Music and Musicians in Society, the Music Industry and Intellectual Property Rights\n- Chapter 7: Using Music Technology for Musical Performance\n- Chapter 8: Working with a Range of Musicians\n- Chapter 9: Developing Musical Leadership\nPart 3: Enriching Musical Models of Development and Assessment", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "William Saroyan Theatre, Fresno\nFresno ballet events events\nSaturday, Feb 28 2:00p\nThursday, Jan 1 6:00p\nLos Banos Community Center-, Los BanosDescription This class is dedicated to helping adults and children beginning at age 2 develop a community awareness of the value of dance education, promote and encourage cultural deversity in ball...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Actually the manual (pdf) does not include a section for “Play Mode”, so i am not sure how to name the areas correctly here.\nIn the setup there are 2 player, both with the same instrument. I setup 2 Flows and entered the notes. Finally i wanted to playback to hear if all sounds correct, and to my surprised i got the first player with 2 sections, the second player with one only.\nI have no idea what i did to end up like this.\nAny idea what i did wrong ?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Have you seen the song which represents Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023? Is it going to be successful? Stay with me to the very end of this article and watch the video to find out if this entry’s going to win.\nThis is your EurovisionaryVoice calling! I present my reactions/comments here.\nThis time I’m going to show you my honest comment on the song that will represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. This is “Tattoo” by Loreen.\nLet’s focus on the first snippet.\nWell, frist things first. I’d say an intriguing introduction not only due to the great melody and sounds but also the picture we can see. Once again Loreen comes up with something original different something that hasn’t been presented before. This just grabs my attention and makes me glued to the TV screen.\nThe song was chosen by a combination of the jury and public voting. Loreen won in both categories and thus became the winner of Melodifestivalen 2023. And what do you think guys about this choice?\nAnd this year’s song was created by, among others, the same team that created Loreen’s winning song “Euphoria” and actually one can say that you can hear that these two songs have similar vibes, which to be honest I just adore.\nThis song is just growing on me with every single note I hear and every single bit of video I see and keeps me involved all way long.\nWhat genre is that? Well, it seems to be a combination of electropop, indie pop or even dance-pop.\nAnd what’s the song about?\nWell, the lyrics say: “I don’t wanna go But baby, we both know, This is not our time\nIt’s time to say goodbye.” I don’t think this needs any explanation.\nBut then it goes “I don’t care about the pain, I’ll walk through fire and through rain, Just to get closer to you, You’re stuck on me like a tattoo”, so the Artist promises she’ll do whatever it takes to get back to the person she is directing her words to. There’s some hope for them then.\nThe song builds up towards a very strong chorus where Loreen’s voice is getting stronger and stronger.\nThis all adds up here – the artist with her vocals and the whole staging with these two platforms (now called by fans “Loreen’s box” or sandwiches). It looks and sounds so powerful. I have similar feelings to those when I heard “Euphoria” for the 1st time. This is my winner this year as “Euphoria” was in 2012.\nAs the rehearsals have already started, I can refer to them and now we know that due to some technical limitations those platforms from Melodifestivalen 2023 have to be replaced by smaller ones and I have to admit that they don’t seem so impressive on stage as in the National Selection but hopefully, they will be presented on TV in the way they were shown in Sweden.\nAnd I keep my fingers crossed for Loreen that everything will go well during the performance and there won’t be any problems with smoke (as it was in the National Selection final performance when Loreen couldn’t be seen for a while) or as it was in 2012 in the dress rehearsal, so called jury rehearsal, when Loreen choked on the fake snow falling from above and she had to cough it out ommiting some high sounds she was supposed to produce. Some say that incident made her sing the next part of the song even in a more dramatic way than the original version due to those problems.\nI also hope that no one will disturb her performance as it was in Sweden.\nAll in all, I’d say this is an excellent performance with great vocals.\nAs each juror is going to rank all the competing songs based on the given criteria, I will also assign points in the same categories (eurovision.tv):\n– composition and originality of the song, 10 out of 10;\n– quality of the performance on stage, 10 out of 10;\n– vocal capacity of the performer(s), 10 out of 10;\n– overall impression of the act, 10 out of 10.\nSo the total is: 40 out of 40 that is 100%.\nWill Loreen’s song lead her tattooed to victory? We’ll see if she will get the best result for Sweden. To do that she would have to win the whole contest (as the best result for Sweden so far has been the 1st place in the Grand Final; it happened six times. It was in 1974, 1984, 1991, 1999, 2012 (it was Loreen herself) and 2015.\nIn the end, I can only say: Well done, Loreen! Congratulations, Sweden! I’m sure this song will qualify for the Grand Final and I hope Loreen will win this year’s Eurovision Song Contest because this is the best song and performance in the field.\nWhat do the bookmakers say about the Swedish entry? At this moment (6th May 2023) it’s in 1st place in the Grand Final and 1st place in the semi-final on eurovisionworld.com and in all probability, it will be successful in Liverpool, I mean this song can gain victory in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.\nLet’s hear it for Loreen and the whole team!\nLet me know what you think of this performance in the comments below. I encourage you to watch my previous videos about the Eurovision Song Contest.\nThank you for reading my article and watching my video!\nPhoto and video: YouTube", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Soft plastic for warm sound. Also great on marimba. Head = 1 1/4″, L = 14 3/8″ – For the discriminating orchestral and symphonic band performer, the Orchestral Series offers six mallets designed for xylophone and seven for bells. With an extraordinary amount of sound color possible, these mallets feature rattan handles. Also, an outstanding choice for marching band and drum & bugle corps.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Subject: I have found a CD that I think you would enjoy\nTwang Thang: Anthology\nGenres: Pop, Rock\nAll pompadour, cheekbones, and a trademark \"twangy\" sound that boomed like it was recorded at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, Duane Eddy was rock & roll's first guitar-hero. Beginning with \"Moovin' n' Groovin\" (1957), the... more »\nAll pompadour, cheekbones, and a trademark \"twangy\" sound that boomed like it was recorded at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, Duane Eddy was rock & roll's first guitar-hero. Beginning with \"Moovin' n' Groovin\" (1957), the combination of Eddy's hollow-body Gretch, Bigsby vibrato tailpiece, a tremolo unit, and oceans of echo racked up dozens of hits. The best (\"Rebel Rouser,\" \"Forty Miles of Bad Road,\" and \"Dance with the Guitar Man\") are also typical--Duane twangs a simple melody over some yakkety sax and much excited yelling in the background. As such, his worldwide influence on a generation of guitar-pickers was massive. Eddy returned to the charts in 1986 when the U.K. studio collective, Art of Noise, collaborated with him on an electronic cut-and-paste version of \"Peter Gunn\" (he'd first recorded the tune 26 years earlier). Incidentally, the 40 songs on this 2 CD set include several previously unreleased mid-'60s blues and early-'80s superstar sessions that are hipper than the hits. Nevertheless, Eddy remains a master of tone, timing, dynamics, and--most importantly--feel and expression, and there's not a single day goes by that some session leader doesn't call for \"a Duane Eddy-type\" guitar sound. --Don Waller\nSimilarly Requested CDs\nDiscover why Duane Eddy is the Boss of the Twangy Guitar!\n(5 out of 5 stars)\n\"This is a must for any Duane Eddy fan, and may well be a collector's item for any record collector. It offers good value for your money, with two CDs covering his original hit recordings - and more resent material, in cooperation with fellow guitarists like Ry Cooder and George Harrison. There's also a small booklet that offers lots of interesting pictures and annecdotes about Duane, his music and his career.My favorites are his \"Chet Atkins inspired\" finger picking tracks like \"Trambone\" and \"Route #1\", where he offers a more complex style than usually asosiated with Duane. I also enjoy the string touch to \"Because They're Young\". A more traditional Duane Eddy track is \"Kommotion\", which I think adds perspective to his style. I also enjoy the stereo version of \"Shazam\" - being one of my all-time favorites. On CD two, I espesially like the up tempo \"Roadhouse Boogie\", the more lazy \"Zephyr Cove\" and Duane's 12 string version of \"Buckaroo\".Both the original version of the Henry Mancini composition \"Peter Gunn\" and the Twang mix, with The Art Of Noise are included in this box. There are so many higlights, but as it says in the included booklet; the one you're most likely to hum after playing the set is the catchy \"Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar\".If you are a Duane Edyy fan, you MUST have this - if you're not: buy it and BECOME a fan!\"\nA major influence for early rock guitarists!\nRobert G. Martinez | Brooksville FL | 03/18/2005\n(5 out of 5 stars)\n\"This box set by Rhino offers every worthy cut by Duane Eddy, who remains an underated influence on rock music. From 1958 to 1962, I couldn't wait for the latest Duane Eddy record. He had hit after hit. Every aspiring rock guitarist with a little elbow grease could play along with these fine recordings. This 2-disc set covers his entire career including some later recordings, but his heyday (1958-1962) covers every single record and even the flip sides too (which were always good).\n\"Twang Thang\" is a must for anyone who loved those classic rock records from that period or for any student of early rock. My Favorites: Rebel Rouser, Cannonball, The Lonely One, Theme from Pepe, 40 Miles of Bad Road etc. etc. Oh, the sound is superb. And the great booklet in the box set features recording dates, personnel and many photos. Thank, Rhino! Great Job!\"\ntriteq | St. Louis, Missouri United States | 07/13/2002\n(5 out of 5 stars)\n\"I'v been listening to this album for 20+++ years (on tape)\nand as luck would have it ... I now have it on CD.. for me\nthis is such timeless music. Duane is a one of a kind with the\ngreat bends and twang of the guitar. After 50+ years of\nlistening to all kinds of music (clasic to country) this\nalbum is still in my top five.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I think the look on my partner’s face was worth all the practice plus time it took for me to learn to dance at all… And mind you, this is some decade plus a half after our ceremony dance. It wasn’t much of dance however more of a slow, lovely embrace where I shuffled my feet. But with the help of the wonderful folks at the local cannabis spot plus my partner’s best friend, I’m now full on dancing. I’m not talking about simply talking about learning one particular dance transport to impress. I’m talking learning to unquestionably find the rhythm of the song plus transport in a way that feels wonderful plus doesn’t look overtly stupid. The wonderful folks at the marijuana company down the street were the ones to find me the right sativa strains for getting me to lean into the songs. Seriously, I’ve never been a big drinker or partier of any kind. But this cannabis thing is something that is just so beneficial on so multiple levels. My partner has used recreational marijuana on plus off since school. Yet, my wonderful friend and I are so busy with all this seemingly routine stuff, that my wonderful friend and I just don’t take that time for ourselves. Well that changed last weekend when I took my partner out for our quasi typical date night. And I took her to a night club after dinner where I moved across the dance floor like it wasn’t my first rodeo. The cannabis edible I nibbled on through dinner didn’t hurt. I shared that edible with my partner plus she too felt the songs. But when she saw me dancing, she was simply blown away to the point where her mouth fell open.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "So here’s what I have going on in the bass department:\nThis is Martha. She is a 1980 Musicman Stingray bass and I have owned her for the past 15 years. I fell in love with her as soon as I saw her and she sounds as good as she looks!\nMartha has a 3 band EQ and sounds awesome both live and in the studio.\nNext up we have Elmo the 1967 Eko Bass.\nI bought Elmo in a second hand shop around 10 years ago and we’ve had so much fun together gigging and recording.\nElmo has a great variety of tones and is perfect for acoustic situations and almost sounds like a double bass!\nMarkbass CMB JB Players School – 200w 1×15″ Combo\nI love this amp sooooo much!\nBefore I moved to Austin, I had a Trace Elliot amp with separate 15″ and 4 x 10 speakers. For the most part I only used the amp with the 15″ cab and it sounded fantastic.\nSadly I couldn’t bring that set up with me from the UK….so when I arrived in the USA I was looking for something that sounded as punchy as my old rig and was easy to carry around…..along came this bad boy.\nThis combo is PERFECT! Both Martha and Elmo sound amazing through it and it’s so light weight – ahhhhh", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jazz Attack is Paul Griffin's personal project. After many years of arranging & producing music for other people in numerous musical styles, Paul decided to get back to his favourite kind of music; Jazz! He loves anything with a Jazzy feel to it, but wanted to use the genre in a very contemporary way- with a lot of loops and samples combined with other musical styles.....\nContact Paul firstname.lastname@example.org\nstyle \"> TAGS : Jazz- Nu Jazz- Jazz Fusion- Pop - Spiritual Jazz\nTracks: If I Could- You Confound Me-\nYou Mean Everything To Me- If I Get To Heaven\nPREVIEW /BUY SONGS\n9Buy all 4 tracks for just $2\n© Vision Music 2021", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "About the Opera Guild Of Southern Arizona\nThe Opera Guild was founded in 1958, and incorporated in 1962, to cultivate a wider public interest in opera, to further music education and appreciation, and to present operatic programs and activities.\nThe OPERA GUILD OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA provides:\nScholarships, prizes, and grants to voice students. Since 1958 this financial aid has totaled more than $400,000.\nThe OPERA GUILD also offers to the community:\nQuest for the Best, our annual voice competition and reception, providing young singers the experience of performing for a live audience and competing for cash prizes.\nBrown Bag Opera, noontime previews of productions of the Arizona Opera Company, featuring young local singers, free and open to the public. Bring your own lunch. Home-baked goodies, coffee and tea are provided.\nSay Hello to Opera, free public previews of Arizona Opera Company productions, featuring young local singers.\nActivities for members include opera tours and our annual membership event, an opportunity to mix with fellow members and hear some of our young talent.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Artist: Waylon Jennings\nSong: Roberts Bicycle Jingle\nAlbum: The Journey: Destiny's Child [BOX SET] (2002)\nIf any one performer personified the outlaw country movement of the '70s, it was Waylon Jennings. Though he had been a professional musician since the late '50s, it wasn't until the '70s that Waylon with his imposing baritone and stripped-down, updated honky tonk, became a superstar. Jennings rejected the conventions of Nashville, refusing to record with the industry's legions of studio musicians and insisting that his music never resemble the string-laden, pop-inflected sounds that were coming out of Nashville in the '60s and '70s. Many artists, including Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, followed Waylon's anti-Nashville stance and eventually the whole \"outlaw\" movement -- so-named because of the artists' ragged, maverick image and their independence from Nashville -- became one of the most significant country forces of the '70s, helping the genre adhere to its hardcore honky tonk roots. Jennings didn't write many songs, but his music -- which combined the grittiest aspects of honky tonk with a rock & roll rhythm and attitude, making the music spare, direct, and edgy -- defined hardcore country, and it influenced countless musicians, including members of the new traditionalist and alternative country subgenres of the '80s. more\nTHE JOURNEY: DESTINY'S CHILD features songs recorded between 1958 and 1968\nIncludes a 60-page hardcover book with liner notes by Lenny Kaye.\n6-CD box set with hard cover book traces country music legend's early career, starting with his Buddy Holly-produced first single in 1958 all the way to April 1968; his legendary rare album \"Waylon At J.D.'s\" is here, together with singles & demos from h\nThe Journey: Destiny's Child is the first of two box sets from Germany's Bear Family Records covering Waylon Jennings' pre-outlaw period. This set collects his complete recordings from his first Buddy Holly-produced single to his April 1968 RCA sessions. His rare, privately released album Waylon at J.D.'s is here, in addition to a number of other complete albums such as Folk-Country, Sings Ol' Harlan, and Love of the Common People. Also included are early demos, radio ads for Coca-Cola and other products, a number of previously unreleased cuts, and his complete A&M recordings from the early '60s. Many of Waylon's individual '60s albums have been reissued domestically, which means that much of the music herein can be had for far less than the high retail price of this box set. For hardcore fans and completists, though, The Journey: Destiny's Child is an all-inclusive survey of Waylon's early years, and the accompanying full-color hardback book is chock full of rare photos and fascinating tidbits. ~ Greg Adams\nno lyrics found...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Asehi Ekda Vhave\nhas a mix of romantic numbers, poems and a\nfrom the upcoming Marathi movie\nis an upbeat devotional song. The industry is increasingly experimenting with different genres of songs and the result is something to look forward to. It just makes us wonder what would the songs from some of the upcoming movies will be like.\nThe Madhuri Dixit Marathi debut is much talked about movie these days. Earlier this year, Madhuri and her co-star in the movie Sumeet Raghavan had taken off to Malaysia to shoot for a romantic number\n. It has been composed by Rohan Gokhale and Rohan Pradhan. It will be interesting to watch this number.\nThe Sanjay Jadhav, Prarthana Behere, Sanskruti Balgude starrer is set to be released on May 11. The movie being a love story of a young couple, we are hoping for interesting romantic numbers from this one.\nThis one is by Santosh Manjrekar, the director of\nMee Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy.\nThe songs from the movie were an interesting mix of various folk songs like Powada, Koli geet etc. Now it will be interesting see what the songs from this one turn out to be.\nMumbai Pune Mumbai 3\nThe music for the previous versions of the movies consisted mainly of romantic numbers. Sung by some big names in the industry, they were treat to your ears. We cannot wait for the songs from this one.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mixing & Mastering Engineers, Producers & Songwriters who worked with Black Mike Mo\n- Profile namearrow_drop_down\nSearch by profile nameclearsearch\n- Recommended arrow_drop_down\nMaking and mixing dope Hip-hop\nProducer-Remixer-Songwriter-Programmer-Engineer with over 30 years experience in the Pop, Dance/EDM, Rock and Latin genres.\nMusic Producer4Keys, Los Angelesfavorite_borderfavorite\nGenerated over 5 million streams!\nI'm a edm/pop/hip-hop producer,beatmaker and mix engineer.\nTimothy Bos Bullock has produced on three #1 Albums, and has a Billboard Hot 100 #1. Bos is grammy nominated and is multi-platinum in several genres worldwide.\nI am a professional touring and session guitarist with over 15 years of experience, currently performing with Jesse Daniel, Vincent Neil Emerson, and Jaime Wyatt.\nI produce a wide variety of Artists of diverse genres, gather the musicians behind the scenes and put together the necessary musical arrangements. When performing live as a keyboard player (Piano, Rhodes, Synths and VST AU instruments) I usually double as musical director. When in my recording studio (I use Protools, Logic, Luna and Ableton Live)\nVariety of genres in Bass production. Recording Bass guitar in many styles (Electronica, Pop, Rock, Alternative, Experimental, Funk, Jazz, Latin) and sounds (Synth, Slap, Picked, Fingered, Fretless) Songwriting of Electronica, Pop, Alternative, Experimental music. Production of songs, arranger, sound.\nI approach every project as if it were my own work. No cookie-cutter production or performance comes out of my studio. No matter how small the role I play, I will invest myself creatively and professionally into your project—we are in this together! Ultimately, I understand it is YOUR project, and I will do all I can to meet or exceed your hopes!\n\"Fuseroom are professional/communicative/friendly. I gained new insights into refining my sound and was impressed with the warm/analog feel and dynamics that were added to my composition. I recommend business with them...\"\n\"Totally satisfied working with Alexander...very profesional creative individual....\"\n\"Great experience. Mike took a complex song I gave him with some limited vocal performances on my part and made the song shine. He has a very good ear, a love for music, good beside manner and a very strong technical...\"\n\"This is my pride to work with this man and I will always recommend him to people who wanna make their sound better and better. \"\n\"Thanks Robert, this was a easy and good collaboration.\"\n\"I got a great mix from David. He knows how to make your song have a great sound and quality. You should try his services, you won't regret. \"\n\"if you ask for a very professional, quick, with great ear and great quality, this guy fit for you\"\n\"The care and thoughtfulness of Blush's work is evidenced by the passion in her performance. Her melodic choices, harmonies, ad libs and vocal arrangements are otherworldly. She is easily one of, if not THE most, talen...\"\n\"Lonny is an amazing guitarist. His musical skills and passion brought my song to a whole different dimension. Working with Lonny was easy, he understood what I was looking for and nailed It !!!!!!!!!! Lonny will be do...\"\n\"If you are looking for professional MIX and MASTERING Koen Heldens will do it the best. \"\n\"Eric is great to work with. He is super prompt in responding to emails, and gets the work done quickly. He worked patiently with me to get the sound I wanted and until I was sastisfied with the outcome. He is a real p...\"\n\"My project was relatively large and boasted over an hour of music. I set a reasonable budget and received well over 30 proposals from some of the best mixing engineers Sound Better has to offer. I reviewed a lot of wo...\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Roy Haynes - Whereas (Dreyfus, 2006)\nVeteran drummer Roy Haynes is fronting a group of up and coming young musicians appropriately called The Fountain of Youth Band on this exciting live recording of modern hard bop. Haynes is joined by Jaleel Shaw on saxophones, Robert Rodriguez on piano, and John Sullivan on bass. Their repertoire is a fine mix of standards old and new with an original thrown in as a drum feature. Whenever Elvin Jones was unable to make a gig with John Coltrane, Roy Haynes was called on to fill in and that may be one of the reasons that he zips the band through a blasting version of Coltrane's \"Mr. P.C.\" like a formula one driver at the helm of a finely tuned vehicle. Shaw sounds very good here sparking off ideas and keeping up the breakneck pace. Haynes also worked with Thelonious Monk on occasion and the group here covers the Monk chestnut \"Bemsha Swing\" and then before segueing into Steve Swallow's \"True or False.\" Other lodestars the band touch upon are compositions from former Haynes associates Chick Corea, Joe Henderson and Charlie Parker. There is also the Haynes drum expose \"Hippiy Hop.\" His young charges play very well throughout, and look to have a bright future in the music. This is a good representation of mainstream jazz in modern times. Haynes has the history of postwar jazz at his fingertips, but is never slavish to the past, always pushing his young group to explore and acting as a mentor and example to all.\nSend comments to: Tim", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Packed house for Tre Twitty and Tayla Lynn\nThe grandchildren of a pair of country music legends performed to a packed house at the CJVR Performing Arts Theatre in the Kerry Vickar Centre on Thursday, January 25.\nTre Twitty and Tayla Lynn performed the music of their grandparents Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty. Local artist Darlene Tuleta also performed “Stand By Your Man”. The crowd was engaged by stories from both artists over the course of the evening.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Bored in Dublin on a Thursday? Want to see some free live music from genuine Irish music legends?\nThen Frank Ryan’s in Smithfield is the place for you. Here every Thursday night you can see the band Left, Right & Centre free of charge!!\nThe band features two former members of Skid Row, Noel Bridgeman and Ed Deane. They have played with greats of Irish music such as Phil Lynott and Brush Shiels with careers spanning over forty years. Along with bassist Tommy Moore they form Left, Right & Centre.\nNoel is famed for his drumming abilities and has spent over four decades mastering his craft while Ed is known for his unorthodox guitar playing. As a left hander he plays the guitar upside down while being one of the best slide players in the country.\nStill have doubt?? Then watch this video!!\nYou can also listen to and download tracks of the lads playing by clicking here.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Snakedoctors are a Polish post-punk group from Gdansk, formed in May of 2020. The group immediately jumped on writing, so the first songs have seen the light of the day in July of the same year. One month later, Snakedoctors released an unofficial private demo recording with thirteen compositions, presented to close friends and fellow musicians. Then, the group recorded the material for their debut album during August and September, so after the recording process, Snakedoctors decided to release their debut named Obligation at the end of the year, on the 22nd of December. A couple of singles almost immediately hit the charts at the worthy positions, so it seems the listeners recognized the qualities of the band.\nThe group combines cold, melancholic, chaotic post-punk aesthetics with the dirtiness and progressiveness of grunge music. You may also stumble upon at some nineties alternative rock maneuvers, but they are laying somewhere beneath the early nineties grunge sound that partially defines Snakedoctors as a band. Obligation takes both post-punk and grunge on an entirely new level, mainly because of the guitar works that are resonating in recognizable late seventies tones. The guitar sound is submerged into generous portions of the chorus, reverb, and fuzz effects, but each articulation is vividly hearable throughout the entire material. Perhaps these guitar maneuvers are suppressing the bass guitar in particular moments, but it doesn’t spoil all the fun. Both instruments are equally presented in the mix.\nThe rhythm section keeps everything in line with precise, uniformed, and compact rhythmic sequences. These rhythmic structures are another characteristic that defines late seventies post-punk music, so the band perfectly encapsulates those aesthetics. Lead vocals illustrate the dark, depressive, melancholic imagery and the stable performance contributes to the overall listening experience. You may hear slight resemblances with Warsaw or Joy Division, but the group keeps their music unique as much as possible. Obligation has a lot of qualities that are yet to be discovered by the broader auditorium. There’s something about the dirty and depressive sound of Snakedoctors that keeps the listener’s attention throughout the entire album. Obligation is available on\nSpotify, while the compact disc is available at Case Studios.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ATEEZ’s YouTube channel shared a new clip where Hongjoong covered Numb and added details to create a version of this tune very much in line with his musical style.\nThe clip begins with the idol standing in front of a mirror as we watch his outfit transform. Amidst a dark and smoky aura around his, Hongjoong takes the microphone and his voice takes over the melody as his performance begins.\nHis creativity and his musical style gifted us with some Korean rap verses in the middle of the song, which made this version of Numb a very special one for ATINY.\nHONGJOONG’S LOOK CAUTIVES FANS ATTENTION\nDuring his performance, Hongjoong wore an accessory that simulates a red plaid half skirt. This garment goes perfectly with his outfit in black with worn jeans and a biker-style jacket with shiny silver closures and snaps.\nPreviously, the idol had already used accessories with the style of a skirt, wearing plaid designs in various tones and denim textures, the response from the fans was extremely positive, so the idol decided to resume the trend and once again conquered his followers with this striking and charming look.\nLearn more about what is happening in the world of K-Pop by visiting our special section for idols at Rex Nation.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Thanthing Kasar also known by his stage name, JC Kitt has released his debut single “The last walk in the rain” on Indihut. The romantic debut single is about a person who has lost his love and still lives all this time holding onto his memory.\nJC Kitt is an upcoming music artist, songwriter and composer from Ukhrul, Manipur. Like all budding artist of the North East, J.C.’s first musical experience started in the local church performing and since then there has been no looking back for this young powerhouse of a singer.\nDownload the song free from Indihut\nHis musical inspiration and style ranges from country to classical rock to contemporary blues and beyond. In the year 2011, JC along with a group of friends formed a band and started performing under the name, “Black & Blue”. The band was a hit in and around Guwahati performing in various college functions and events thus, striking a chord and a small fan base following with people of all ages who were left mesmerized by his deep, soulful and original voice.\nThanthing’s music life started quite early with his late father as his inspiration, who was a singer-songwriter. And his father being the one inspired from, the first album will be dedicated to him which is expected to be out by the end of the year.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Mikhailovsky Theater\nThe Mikhailovsky theater is the third Imperial stage in St.Petersburg. It was opened in 1833 by decree of Emperor Nicholas I in Mikhailovsky Square (now called Arts Square). The theater owed its name to the Mikhailovsky Palace situated in the same square. The Mikhailovsky palace was built by the famous architect Carlo Rossi, who designed facades of other buildings in the square. The theater was built by architect Alexander Bryullov following Rossi’s master plan.\nThe internal design was made in line with mid-19th century attitudes. Everything possible was done to prevent audiences seated in different levels meet on the stairs.\nThe theater didn’t have its own resident company till 1931. Performances were given by Mariinsky Theater and Alexandrinsky Theater companies, and after 1859 by French and German troupes. Johann Strauss conducted the orchestra more than once. Famous actors, singers and dancers performed on the stage. Among them Konstantin Stanislavsky, Fyodor Shalyapin, Matilda Kshesinskaya, and Vera Komissarzhevskaya.\nAfter the Revolution, the theater had its own orchestra and choir, and soloists were invited from the Mariinsky theater. In 1933, the theater finally got a ballet company of its own directed by Fyodor Lopukhov. The opera company was established in 1931.\nRussian operas and ballets by Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Modest Mussorgsky, Andrei Shostakovich, and of course, Pyotr Tchaikovsky were staged at the Mikhailovsky theater with great success. Classical ballets and operas were also very popular.\nNow, after a recent restoration of the theater’s interiors, it welcomes visitors from different countries. The ballet company is directed by Nacho Duato, who staged some of his own ballets on the Mikhailovsky stage.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Thanks for choose SXID music!\nLight and pleasure background music with acoustic guitar, electro guitar, piano and strings. Perfect for photoshot, slideshow, backstage, corporate, love story, youtube blog background, travel videos.\nInclude: 1) Full version 1:46\n2) Short version 1:15 (in preview after 1:46)\n3) Loop 0:16 (in preview after 3:00)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Michael Whitwell passed away in Petaluma, California on September 17, 2009, after a courageous two year battle with cancer, at age 56. He performed in the big showrooms in Reno and Lake Tahoe and played lead trumpet fifteen years at Harrah’s South Shore Room with the Brian Farnon Orchestra beginning in the mid- 1980s. There he played with such notables as Frank Sinatra, Crystal Gale, Natalie Cole, Bill Cosby and Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett, B.B. King, Ella Fitzgerald, Don Rickles, Sarah Vaughan, the Four Tops, Ray Charles Orchestra, and live nationally broadcast radio with Johnny Mathis. He toured HBO Japan with Narada Michael Walden and Weather Report and toured many years with the Danny Marona Show. He had a long association with the Temptations and played with them when they toured northern California.\nVersatility was the hallmark of his talent and career, and he was equally suited to playing lead trumpet or jazz. Involved in all media, he appeared as a model in many commercials and print ads and was an actor for movies such as Cobb, Waking up in Reno, and the Cooler. A favorite memory was the trumpet lesson he gave Kirk Douglas during the shooting of “Diamonds.” Michael was also a private music teacher and clinician and recently presented with trombonist Bill Watrous at San Diego Mesa College. He recorded with both Bill Watrous and the late Herb Pomeroy. Most recently, he recorded for Sam & Max video games soundtrack and with the Oster Welker Jazz Alliance with Pete Levin, Fred Lipsius, Mel Martin, and Dave Matthews.\n“Michael had a way of making those he worked with comfortable, at ease, creating a fun atmosphere, inspiring all to play their best,” said his wife, Catherine Loustaunau-Whitwell. Over the years, he taught many students, whom he referred to as his “disciples,” and worked to develop a program specific to each individual. Many of his students have gone on to play professionally and record.\nDuring his illness, playing music became his therapy. When he played his Schilke trumpets, he had “no cancer.” Whitwell was busy performing up until a few weeks before his passing.\nMichael Whitwell touched many students, friends and fellow musicians with his sterling musicianship, generosity, positive spirit and his healthy sense of humor. He will be greatly missed.\nSources: Scott Nygard, Catherine Loustaunau-Whitwell, and Craig Whitwell, photo courtesy of Claus Brigmann", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "“Rock Around The World” Radio Shows and Newspapers of the 1970’s\nRock Around The World was more than just a radio show and newspaper – it was a cultural movement that united music fans across the globe. Now, you can be a part of that movement and show your love for classic rock with our exclusive Rock Around The World t-shirts.\nFeaturing the iconic RATW logo and vintage designs inspired by the golden era of rock music, our t-shirts are perfect for any music lover looking to add some retro flair to their wardrobe. Made from high-quality materials and available in a variety of sizes and styles, our t-shirts are comfortable and stylish.\nWhether you’re a fan of classic rock legends like Queen, David Bowie, or The Beatles, or you simply appreciate the power of rock music to bring people together, our Rock Around The World t-shirts are a must-have for any music fan. So, join the movement and rock out in style with our exclusive t-shirts. As written by Chat GPT and edited.\nDanny Lipman – Founder and Trademark Owner just to be clear. 03/19/20223", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Please Note: This event has expired.\nWaymore’s Outlaws - Runnin’ with Ol’ Waylon\nIn the mid-70’s Waylon Jennings and The Waylors were a pivotal force that knocked Nashville and country music back on their heels with their own way of doing things, standing up for their rights to create their own music, a movement they called Outlaw music.\nA few years after the passing of Waylon in 2002, his Waylors’ band members, Richie Albright, Jerry Bridges, and Fred Newell, formed Waymore’s Outlaws to honor Waylon and to keep his music alive. A year later they invited Tommy Townsend to join their Outlaw band on lead guitar and vocals.\nIn the years that followed they recorded three albums, toured the nation, Canada, and Europe with their outlaw spirit playing Waylon’s songs and one of theirs now and then. In January 2014 they began a four year touring engagement with Waylon and Jessi’s son, Shooter Jennings, opening his shows and backing him on stage.\nIn January of this year, Barny and Carter Robertson, who became Waylors in 1975, joined Waymore’s Outlaws.\nCollectively, The Waylors’, Albright, Bridges, both Robertson’s and Newell, played on the recordings of Waylon’s mega hits such as I Ain’t Living Long Like This, Theme Song from the Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol’ Boys), Luckenbach Tx (Back To The Basics Of Love) and Rainy Day Woman, as well as countless other gold and platinum hits.\nWaymore’s Outlaws are continuing today what Waylon began in the ’70s, doing things their own way. Beginning in June, they will be venturing back out on the road to once again bring the ‘Music and Memories of Waylon Jennings’ to audiences across the globe, performing a new show called Runnin’ With Ol’ Waylon.\nSource: City Winery\nContact: (615) 324-1010\nINDIVIDUAL DATES & TIMES*\nAdditional time info:\nDoors open 6pm\n609 Lafayette Street, Nashville, TN 37203(Neighborhood: The Gulch)\nMORE FROM City Winery\nMar 22, 2023\nMar 22, 2023\nMar 23, 2023\nFeb 6 - Mar 23, 2023", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The DePaul Choirs are dedicated to developing the choral artistry of a wide array of student singers (music majors and non-music majors) with diverse and engaging repertoire. This fall the choirs will sing Bernstein's Chichester Psalms\nwith the DePaul Concert Orchestra, joined by the Windy City Performing Arts. In the spring, the choirs will celebrate the opening of the Sasha and Eugene Jarvis Opera Hall.\nChamber Choir (SSAA) rehearses Monday and Wednesday from 2:40-4:10 pm in the Choral Rehearsal Hall.\nConcert Choir (Advanced SATB) rehearses Tuesday and Thursday from 2:40-4:10 pm in the Choral Rehearsal Hall.\nEric Esparza is the Director of Choral Studies and Vocal Area Coordinator.\nEnjoy a sample of the DePaul Choirs performing Duruflé's Ubi Caritas\n, or their performance of Charpentier's Magnificat\nMichael Lewanski is the conductor of DePaul Concert Orchestra and Ensemble 20+.\nJason Moy is the Chamber Music Coordinator and Director of the", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Trevor James Flute CASE COVER. Padded. Shoulder strap. Dark Pink.\nAvailability: In stock\nThe following models of flute do not fit in this case cover:\nJupiter waveline / Prodigy\nTJ Privilege / Cantabile / Virtuoso\nFor these flute look at B foot flute case covers\n|Manufacturer / Brand||Trevor James|\n|What the manufacturer says||No|", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Guest trumpeter Andy Dickens at Pete Allen jazz concert\n- Credit: Contributed\nPete Allen’s guest musician for the jazz concert at Sidholme Music Room on Sunday, September 22 will be Andy Dickens on trumpet.\nEver the eccentric, Andy was featured in the Waitrose magazine recently in connection with the weird and wonderful items that can be used (by him, anyway) as mutes.\nPete's band is always fun, and Andy's presence tends to bring an air of unpredictability to the proceedings.\nAvailable on Sunday will be Pete's autobiography, recently published, and single-session tickets to his 65th birthday bash weekend from Friday, November 22 to Sunday, November 24 at Sidholme Hotel.\nThese can also be booked by ringing 07501 821385.\nYou may also want to watch:\nOn the Friday evening the full Pete Allen Jazz Band will open the weekend with a flourish, and on the Saturday evening they will take turns on the stage with Tad Newton's Jazz Friends.\nThis Sunday's show will start at 3pm, and doors to the Music Room will open at 2.30pm. Admission £13.50.\n- 1 Summer play season returns safe and sound after 'challenging year'\n- 2 Tragedy strikes the racing world\n- 3 Paedophile hunters' sting in Sidbury leads to prosecution\n- 4 Former Ottery science technician celebrates her seventieth year\n- 5 'Battered and shattered' traders start to reopen their shops\n- 6 Folk festival boosted by £97K grant from Culture Recovery Fund\n- 7 Different species of deer are part of our wildlife inheritance\n- 8 School's hill climb challenge\n- 9 Family triumph in Sidmouth golf team stableford\n- 10 Confidence grows for return of traditional high street", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A grand mezzo-soprano choir solemnly signals the scope of the fantastic adventure you are about to start. The discovery of an ancient Gnome Temple in a far, far away land.\nA magical female choir takes flight. The woodwind follows. Elevating you into an ethereal atmosphere. Of visions and mystics. The playful and folky gnomes run and dance. Closely chased by agile melodies of singing oboes.\nMarching percussion and string motifs drives the score and the sense of adventure as you discover the Gnome Temple.\nA score full of fantasy, action and adventure.\naction, adventure, fantasy, female choir, flutes, folk, french horn, harp, orchestral, strings", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "PHY 103: The Physics of Music\nBausch and Lomb 407: Tu Th 9:40 - 10:55\nLabs: W 2:00 - 4:40 (1), 4:50 - 7:30 (2)\nPHY 403 is an exploration of music and acoustics using demonstrations and laboratory experiments. The class meets once per week for lectures. Students apply the lecture material during weekly sessions in the music lab (B&L 403), building and testing their own musical instruments. At the end of the semester, the class performs a short concert (or individual demonstrations) using instruments of their own design.\nLocation and Office Hours\n|Segev BenZvi||Dahyun Chung||Luke Okerlund|\n|B&L 405||B&L 403||B&L 403|\n|Th 9:30 - 11:00||W 2:00 - 4:40||W 4:50 - 7:30|\nThe course textbook is Musical Instrument Design by Bart Hopkin (ISBN-10: 1884365086), an excellent and inexpensive book about the physical principles behind the different families of instruments. The book also describes how to make music using highly creative and unusual instrument designs.\nThe following books are also on reserve at POA:\n- An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing by Brian Moore.\n- Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics by Perry Cook.\n- Measured Tones: The Interplay of Physics and Music by Ian Johnston.\n- Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics by Arthur Benade.\n- The Physics of Sound by Richard Berg and David Stork.\n- Physics and the Sound of Music by John Rigden.\n- The Physics of Musical Instruments by Neville Fletcher and Thomas Rossing.\n- Why You Hear What You Hear by Eric Helling.\n- Propagation of sound waves\n- Normal modes and resonances\n- Harmonic analysis\n- Musical scales and temperament\n- Loudness (measurement and perception)\n- Psychoacoustics and audio illusions\n- Room acoustics\n|Weekly Lab Reports||60%|\nYou are required to complete at least 8 out of 10 lab reports to get full credit during the fall semester. Due to the difficulty of setting up different equipment for different experiments, here are no make-up labs allowed -- hence the 8 out of 10 policy. Note that if you miss a lab, you will need to provide a valid excuse (religious holiday, personal emergency, etc.).\nThe midterm will be an in-class exam meant to test your conceptual understanding of the topics you learn about in the course.\nFor the final you will design and build your own instrument in the lab during the last month of the semester. We have tentatively scheduled a short (10-15 minute) concert on December 9 where you can show off your instrument. To get full credit you will need to be on the concert program. Students who cannot attend the concert may get credit by presenting their final projects in class.\nIn the lab we will use the commercial software Adobe Audition to perform frequency analyses of your recordings and produce awesome spectrograms. However, if you wish to explore on your own there are several excellent open-source (and free) software packages that you can try out:\nAn open-source alternative to Audition with most of the same features.\nAn excellent software package for formant analysis of the human voice. Very fun to play with...\n- Overtone Analyzer:\nA commercial frequency analyzer specifically designed for tone analysis and voice training for singers and musicians. Very nice but not free, unfortunately.\n|1||Sep. 1||Introduction to Waves|\n|Wavelength, period, and energy of waves. Wave behavior: reflection, refraction, diffraction, and polarization. Longitudinal vs. transverse waves.|\n|Reading: Hopkin Ch. 2, Berg and Stork Ch. 2, Heller Ch. 2|\n|2||Sep. 3||Standing Waves and Harmonics|\n|The wave equation. Traveling and standing waves on a string. Relationship between frequency and string length. Harmonics and overtones.|\n|Reading: Hopkin Ch. 1, Berg and Stork Ch. 3|\n|3||Sep. 8||Fourier Analysis and Sampling|\n|Fourier's Theorem. The Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem and the Nyquist Limit.|\n|Reading: Hopkin Ch. 1, Berg and Stork Ch. 4|\n|4||Sep. 15||Standing Waves in an Air Column|\n|Longitudinal waves in an air pipe. Standing waves in open-open and open-closed pipes. Boundary conditions for pressure waves. Resonances: driving an air column with an open speaker.|\n|Reading: Hopkin Ch. 6|\n|5||Sep. 22||Scales and Temperament|\n|Origins of musical scales. Perfect 4ths, 5ths, and triads. Pythagorean tuning and the circle of fifths. Just intonation. Equal temperament.|\n|Reading: Hopkin Ch. 3, Berg and Stork Ch. 9|\n|6||Oct. 6||Loudness and Amplification|\n|The decibel scale. Perceived loudness and the phon scale. Acoustic amplification in the guitar, piano, and horns.|\n|Reading: Heller Ch. 7, Fletcher and Rossing Ch. 9 and 12 (advanced).|\n|7||Oct. 13||Bars and Bells|\n|Vibrational modes of bars. Inharmonic partials. Vibrational modes of bells and glasses.|\n|Reading: Hopkin Ch. 3, Fletcher and Rossing Ch. 2 (advanced).|\n|Drumheads, bodies, and attachments. Struck drums, friction drums, and singing drums. Vibrational modes of a circular membrane.|\n|Reading: Hopkin Ch. 7, Fletcher and Rossing Ch. 3 (advanced).|\n|Acoustic impedance of surfaces and musical instruments. Impedance matching and mismatching. Wolf notes in string instruments. Analogs of Ohm's Law.|\n|Reading: Hopkin Ch. 1, Heller Ch. 1.|\n|10||Nov. 10||Room Acoustics|\n|Direct vs. indirect sound. Reverberation time RT60. Liveness, intimacy, clarity, and warmth. Acoustical absorption and Sabine's Equation.|\n|Reading: Berg and Stork Ch. 8.|\n|11||Nov. 17||Auditory Illusions|\n|Pitch illusions: Shepard tone and falling bells. Perception of tonal and temporal reflections. Sensory integration: the McGurk Effect. Illusions related to acoustical gaps and silences. Perceptual groupings (Deutsch Scale Illusion) and auditory streaming. The Tritone Paradox.|\n|The anatomy of the larynx and vocal tract. The vocal tract as a 1/4-wave resonator with power supply (lungs) and oscillator (vocal folds). Vowels and formants. The singer's formant. Pseudo-multiphonic singing: throat singing/overtone singing. Gender differences in voice.|\n|Reading: Heller Ch. 17|\nA selection of the final projects from Fall 2015 (from people who sent me pictures):\nCredit and Usage\nThese lectures and the structure of the course are based heavily on the class lectures made by Alice Quillen.\nAnyone who comes across this material and wishes to use it for their own courses is free to do so without requesting my permission. However, please cite S. BenZvi, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, 2015.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau was an icon of the piano. His masterfully musical interpretations are worshiped all over the world.\nHe's one in my top 3 favorite piano players. In my opinion he had the ability to create absolutely perfect music, full of emotion and life. Incredible!\nArrau was born on midnight on the 7th of February 1903, in a small city in Chile. He was descended from prominent families from Spain and Scotland. His mother was a piano teacher, and his father (who died when Claudio was 1 year old) was an oculist.\nHe showed amazing talent at the keyboard at a young age, and gave his first recital when he was 5 years old. The president of Chile was so impressed with little pianist Claudio's talents that the government gave him a grant to study piano in Germany.\nSo off the musician went to Germany with his family, at age 8. The grant was to study for 10 whole years. He was a huge sensation there, performing frequently for all kinds of important people.\nHe met a master teacher, Martin Krause, who had studied with Liszt himself. Arrau was Krause's favorite student, and the master molded the young talent into a supreme performer.\nArrau's fame grew as he performed recitals all over Europe and Latin America. He founded a piano school in Chile, then went to live in New York City with his family in 1941. There he spent his time giving concerts, teaching, and making recordings.\nHe was a legend in Chile, where the capital Santiago has a massive avenue named after him (I saw it when I was there!).\nWhen the pianist returned to Chile in the 80s to perform after a long absence, the media was in a frenzy. 80% of the country heard or saw his recitals on TV and radio.\nClaudio Arrau was an intellectual, who loved to read. While traveling all over the world on concert tours, he read all sorts of different books, and became fluent in 5 languages.\nIn old age he even cut down on the number of performances he gave so that he'd have more time, among other things, to read! A great wish of his was \"Another hundred years, just to read\".\nHe died in Austria in 1991.\nClaudio Arrau made his interpretations as faithful to the composer's ideas as possible, taking them very seriously.\nHe even took into account the time periods the composers lived in and their inner states of mind. His fascination with psychoanalysis helped him with this.\nHe played with a true artistic purpose to explore and reflect on the music, not just as way to show off. He used his god-like piano skills purely to create art.\nOne of my favorite Arrau quotes is \"An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.\".\nThere's a great balance between his technically invincible accuracy and nuance (from his German musical training), and his natural Latin passion. This combination of the mind and the heart works brilliantly.\nHe had a heavy, rich tone, and somehow had the ability to make the piano breathe and sing.\nThe pianist Claudio Arrau was massively famous and respected as an interpreter of Beethoven and Debussy. But critics and listeners hailed him as the supreme master of many other composers too, including Liszt, Mozart (click for biography), and Chopin.\nThe amount of music he recorded is huge! He recorded all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas several times, as well as most of the piano music of about 30 other composers.\nHere are some great videos showing Arrau's amazing musicality...\nUn sospiro (a sigh), concert study by Franz Liszt. Listen to how Arrau brings out the warmth and beauty of the piece, while making it sound effortless:\nFrederic Chopin, Nocturne, op.15 no.3 in G minor. Arrau's weighty style is perfect for this thoughtful piece:\nBeethoven piano sonata no.30 op.109, 1st movement. Arrau was a Beethoven specialist, and it shows here!\nFor a great resource on everything about pianist Claudio Arrau, check out the Arrau House website.\nI recommend this CD of Arrau's final recording sessions, since it's the best showcase of his playing sound and style:\nIf you like my site, please click \"Like\"... thanks!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Not listening to anything?\nTry one of the ReverbNation Channels\nVery unique and realistic! Nice mix's. We all didn't come from the same kettle! So doesn't represent evil so I,m gona fan You back dog! I like Your style and talent. Thank You for Your support on reverb. Peace out.\nGreat sound. killer flow!\nReally dig your unique vocal style... excellent flow and killer musical tracks.\nGreat stuff man keep it up keep the faith\nlike your music good job\nNice tracks. All the best.\nGreat music brother!! TLAD\nHalf a Light nice !!! Great work!Loved it!\neMinor, Inc. (c) 2013", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This is a great listening comprehension activity and also reading comprehension in Spanish.\nFollow this link bellow (or copy and paste it)\nTo have your students listen to the son \"el mismo sol\" by Alvaro Soler. Have them complete the song while they listen using the words from the word bank. On the back of the paper, they will have to find the sentences that I wrote in English, in Spanish from the song. They will also have to figure out the theme of the song from a multiple choice list.\nIf you copy and paste the link bellow, it will take you to the same song in a remix performed with this singer and JLo. It is neat for the students to listen to the same song with some parts in English. But mine liked the Spanish version better!\nIt comes with answers. Have fun!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tom Waits on Letterman\nDescription: Tom Waits dropped the album Real Gone and did an interview with Letterman in Sept. of 2004. And this is the greatest performance he has ever done of my favorite song \"Make It Rain.\" Absolutely the epitome of awesomeness!\nmikhaul640 Uploaded 10/09/2010", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Post Big Band Salzburg\nThe Post Big Band Salzburg has been founded in 2003 by members of the Postmusik Salzburg. This live band is led by Franz Milacher.\nThe band’s repertoire includes big band music of various styles, with the emphasis changing regularly. The spectrum ranges from traditional big band sound to standard dances, evergreens, musicals, film music and pop music. Of course, the improvisation and creativity of the individual musicians is given a lot of freedom.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In this movement we were all given a futurist artist we to research and explain to the group who exactly that artist was and how they created their work. I was given the artist Luigi Russolo who was a futurist painter and composer and he also the author of the manifesto ‘The art of noise’ written in 1913. To be honest I appreciate his work, I’m not his biggest fan but the idea behind it was really interesting; he grew up in a musical family and his work was influenced by noise not sound. His work is really and colourful and almost 3D looking, one or two of his pieces actually reminds me of the impressionist movement especially his piece called ‘Profumo’ painted in 1910. My favourite pieces of work that show influence by noise would be ‘automobile in corsa’ painted in 1912; this painting is very red and sharp looking showing the noise of a car when it is zooming past. Another piece would be ‘music’ painted in 1911; this design is also very bright in colour but not as harsh as the automobile in corsa, it flows making you think of sound waves being created by the piano at the bottom of the painting. Lastly I am going to mention some of his crazy music, he composed a lot of futurist music during this period and its better you just listen to it than hear my feeble attempt to explain how it sounds.\nThis sound piece is called: Macchina Tipografica.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "'He Is My Story : The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes'\nBook by Michael Corcoran.\nOrigial OKeh 78 rpm record transfers by Christopher King.\nDesign by Susan Archie.\nA singer sits at\nthe piano and loses all inhibitions while in complete\ncontrol of the instrument: Little Richard, Ray Charles,\nJerry Lee Lewis. Although church singer Arizona Dranes\ndoesn't come close to the stature of those icons, she set\nthe mold for rockin' singer/ pianists in 1926 with six \"test\nrecords\" that have stood the test of time.\nUntil now, very little has been correctly reported about\nDranes other than the facts that she was blind, from Texas,\nhad a piercing Pentecostal voice and was the first recording\nartist to play piano in the secular styles of the day, while\nsinging words of deep praise.\nCorcoran, former music critic and columnist for the Austin\nAmerican-Statesman, has spent years unearthing revelatory\ndetails on the life of the mysterious woman behind the\nmusic. The book includes a CD containing all 16 of Arizona\nDranes' recorded tracks, expertly remastered from the\nOKeh label 78 RPM records by Grammy-winning producer\nis also available digitally (without the music) as an eBook.\nTompkins Square :\nSix CDs and a 200\npage book housed in a cedar box packed with raw cotton.\nLance Ledbetter, Goodbye, Babylon was\nDust-to-Digitalís first release in 2003. The five CDs\nfeature 135 Songs (1902-1960) and one CD featuring 25\nSermons (1926-1941). Accompanying the CDs is a 200 page book\nwith Bible verses, complete lyric transcriptions, and notes\nfor each recording.\nMe To The Water: Immersion Baptism in\nVintage Music and Photography 1890-1950\nOne CD and a\n96-page hardcover book\nCompiled by Jim Linderman, Music Complied by Lance\nLedbetter. The 96-page hardcover book has 75 sepia\nphotograph reproductions from 1890-1950 and is accompanied\nby a CD of rare gospel and folk recordings from original\n78-RPM records (1924-1940).", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "JOHN PHILIP SOUSA AWARD\n\"Since its inauguration in 1954, thousands of U.S. high schools have presented the John Philip Sousa Band Award to their most outstanding band student. The award recognizes those young musicians displaying superior musicianship, leadership, dependability, loyalty, cooperation, and other qualities of conduct which school instrumental music programs strive to impart. The Sousa award is the top nationwide prize in the school band field, both in prestige and appearance. It promotes the entire band by encouraging musicians to greater achievement and enthusiasm while providing an inspiring stimulus for potential instrumentalists. The handsome award reflects credit on both the band and the band director.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It's pretty clear he's referencing Meek, but just in case you don't believe us...\nCh-ch-check out the shady moment and decide for yourself (below)!!!\n[Image via JLN Photography/WENN.]\nPlease give a huge round of applause for the WICKedly talented Barry Jizell and Adele Dazeem.\nThe piano man stuck to the keys and let Idina croon his AH-Mazing song Honesty at the Sirius XM Town Hall hosted by Howard Stern!\nHonestly? It's pretty phenomenal. Idina's voice is perfect for Billy's lyrics.\nCh-ch-check out the duet (above)!!!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "NO: 13 MAY 1981 Palais Des Arts - Paris, France\nInstrumental (unknown?), Procession, Ceremony, Doubts Even Here, Truth,\nDreams Never End, ICB, Senses, Denial, In A Lonely Place\n(playlist from Fractured/Image)\nTape used for writeup courtesy of 'nof586'.\nThis to me sounds like a reworking of Mesh, but incorporating\nelements of 'Sister Ray', especially with respect to the drumming.\nA segue from the last track.\nBernard screeches after one of the verses.\nThe band tune up after the end, doing it for well over 30 seconds.\nCeremony is played next.\nDoubts Even Here\nPlayed only two more times afterwards. None of these versions feature\nGillian's part. Ends with drums.\nBernard wanders from the script at the 1:48 point, when he sings\n\"Seems so glad they destruct\" (rather than \"to be here\")\nDreams Never End\nStellar-sounding guitar from Mr. Sumner.\nAgain, great guitar work from Bernard.\nBreak in tape between this and Senses.\nThen Denial, followed by another brief break.\nThe concert ends with In A Lonely Place which in and of itself\nis unusual, with an rendition to match.\nBernard says something at 1:40 I can't make out.\n\"I'm warm like a debt...\" as he stumbles over the lyric shortly before\nthe 3:00 point.\nShortly before 4:00: \"Turn the microphone down...turn the bass drum up.\"\nFollowed by a few yelps.\nBernard then starts talking, which I can't make out.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "After the up and down of this great iconic artiste, finally he has made we the fans very happy by dropping another hot banger track titled Larry Gaaga – Choose You Ft. Ceeza Milli, Marvio mp3. Thus, this song is what you will really love to listen to because it is very addictive. Our music portal is always available, check out more hot music here.\nStill basking the recently released “The Pretty Serpent” soundtrack album by the Nigerian music mogul, Larry Gaaga comes another banging song titled “Choose You” featuring the starboy act, Ceeza Milli and Marvio.\nListen and share below!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ukubear Ukulele Music Day in Ping Ming School, Lima Kedai, Johor Bahru\nUkubear introduces ukulele culture in primary school and kindergarten. Thus, children will perform their ukulele skills and perform in their own school to show their friends their learning efforts & hard work. This is to discover the music talents of the children from the young. Some children are experiencing the ukulele for the first time. Letting Children dress up with Hawaiian wreaths, while learning and experiencing Hawaiian culture.\nUkulele is an instrument full of Haiwaiian culture symbols. According to the studies,\nUkulele music is said to derive from a small Madeiran lute that was imported by Portuguese musicians to Hawai‘i and there transformed into a very popular string instrument.\nWhy is the ukulele the best starter instrument for the children?\n1. Smaller size\nIn fact, the ukulele’s fingerboard is much smaller than the guitar’s, making it easier to play for children and students with small hands. The size and smaller string also make it easier to chord and to strum than the guitar.\n2. Soft Strings\nMany chords are surprisingly easy to finger, resulting in rapid success for the children. The strings are soft enough to prevent the blistering or irritation that often occurs when novices begin the guitar.\n3. Easier Playing\nBy using the open-string tuning in C major rather than the standard D-major tuning, it makes it easier to play the primary chords and pluck tunes for many traditional and folk songs, often using only the bottom three strings. The fingering is similar to that used for playing the bottom four strings of the guitar and prepares students for the guitar.\n4. Low Cost\nUkulele is an ideal melodic-harmonic-rhythmic, low-cost instrument suitable for all general music programs for children.\nParents are encouraged to nurture the children by building children’s interests such as ukulele music. Ukubear Ukulele is opening a limited FREE Ukulele class for children now. The online ukulele children class Johor Bahru is also available now. Complete the registration of Ukubear ukulele class below:-\nUkubear Ukulele Ping Ming, Ukubear Ukulele Lima Kedai, Ukubear Ukulele Johor Bahru, Ukubear Ukulele Skudai, Ukubear Ukulele Perling, Ukubear Ukulele Mutiara Rini, Ukubear Ukulele Medini Kota Iskandar, Ukubear Ukulele Medini Iskandar, Ukubear Ukulele Iskandar Puteri, Ukubear Ukulele Nusajaya, Ukubear Ukulele Bukit Indah, Ukubear Ukulele Molek, Ukubear Ukulele Mount Austin, Ukubear Ukulele Setia Indah, Ukubear Ukulele Masai, Ukubear Ukulele Setia Tropika", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If it is OK to tell y'all about my most favorite male singer, James Otto is his name and if you like both country and soul music, they are put together when James sings! This is the song that put James on the map from his album named Sunset Man and not only stayed at #1 for two weeks making it the #1 country song of 2008, but it scored James his very first Grammy award nomination the following year. This is the last song that went to radio from James so far and is from his album named Shake What God Gave Ya! This is my most favorite song and performance from him which is also from his Sunset Man album. God bless you and James always!!! Holly P.S. James has also become known for his songwriting by scoring the 2009 CMA and ACM Song of the Year awards for his being a co-writer of the song named \"In Color\" from Jamey Johnson and is also a co-writer of the song named \"No Hurry\" from the Zac Brown Band which went all the way to #2.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Interesting webpages you might like to visit!!\nThe Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (RSCDS) headquarters\nAssociation of Scottish Country Dancers (ASCDS) for further info on all the local groups, and the ASCDS festival held annually in Nottingham.\nLinks to local groups:\nScottish Country Dance Dictionary - For you to look at dance cribs and videos.\nRSCDS Leeds Shop - The shop sells Scottish Country Dance books and CD's, and stocks a large range of shoes including Ballet shoes, ladies pumps and Ghillies.\nClick here to go back to welcome page Doncaster RSCDS Welcomes you!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "– Ether, healing, meditation\n”WORLDMUSIC – Malou Berg, renowned in Uppland, Sweden, continues to investigate musical borderlines in her fourth album of the Pleiadian Suite. Now with songs in her own language for which she has been rewarded the Word Prize of the Swedish Word Festival (Ordfestivalens ordpris). This time Malou Berg bases her music on the tones of the ancient Solfeggio Scale and she does this in co-operation with Xavier Desandre Navarre, French percussionist and multi-instrumentalist.”\nWith her new album ALIGNMENT, Malou Berg continues to compose music that crosses all borders and she began the release with a triumphant concert at The Boulevard Theatre in Stockholm on September 7, 2010. Alignment is the fourth album in Malou Berg’s ground-breaking Pleiadian Suite. In 2009, she was awarded The Word Price at the annual Word-Festival in Sweden for her language in this song suite. That same year, Malou was invited to be the main feature by the South Korean annual HwaEom Spirit Music Ritual.\nThe music in ALIGNMENT carries the listener to new worlds that inspire, uplift and release in a magical way. A musical rainbow of vocals and sounds of crystal and Tibetan bowls, the beating of drums and soft, dancing melodies. An album that is both meditative and exciting.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Words by Jasmine Bourgeois\nPhoto by Felipe Pipi\nDrummer SunMi Hong says that the most memorable moment in her career was “The first day I went to drum academy in Korea. I practiced nonstop for about four hours, feeling somewhat liberated. At the end of my day, my legs wouldn’t stop shaking.”\nHong is the type of drummer who has an innate flow in the way she plays. She’s been drumming for about a decade, but you’d think she’d been playing since she was old enough to hold a set of sticks.\nAfter years of being enamored with the drummers at her church, she finally convinced her parents to let her take drum lessons at 17. She was a natural, and shortly thereafter immersed herself in music, studying under drum masters Martijn Vink, Marcel Serierse, Lucas Sebastiaan van Merwijk, Gerhard Jeltes, and Michael Carvin at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, one of Europe’s most renowned jazz schools.\nHong has a deeply felt softness to her playing. She’s one of the lucky few who seems to have an intuitive knack for rhythm and genuinely feels groove in her bones. She plays with a warmth that feels uniquely hers. She approaches her music in a somewhat meditative fashion, thinking of music as something bigger than any individual player, and something that takes sacrifice. She’s come a long way since her first nerve-wracking day at a drum academy. Now, Hong’s involved in a few different big projects, including the Daahoud Salim Quintet and a project with pianist Young Woo-Lee and bassist Brodie Jarvie—and trust us when we say that SunMi Hong will be a name you’ll see again.\nFeatured in the ‘Bands We Like’ section of Issue 33. Purchase a copy here.", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "The Mainly Mozart Youth Orchestra (MMYO) serves San Diego students through a music education and performance program that offers:\n- A high instructor-student ratio;\n- Programs for youth ages 3-23;\n- A strong inclusion policy that integrates children with learning differences, allowing all students to learn from each other in a welcoming environment;\n- A robust scholarship program for youth with financial need;\n- Partnership with Tijuana’s music conservatory to form California’s only bi-national orchestra, the Youth Orchestra of the Californias, with rehearsals and performances on both sides of the border;\n- Performance opportunities at private and professional venues throughout San Diego;\n- The opportunity to rehearse and perform side-by-side with Mainly Mozart professional musicians.\n- Coaching by and exposure to Mainly Mozart’s internationally acclaimed Artist-Faculty.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Emmanuelle Bertrand Pascal Amoyel duet\nSince 1999, those two talents compose a duet whose recordings (Alkan, Liszt, Strauss, Block, Grieg, St-Saëns...) published by Harmonia Mundi got the best awards: Cannes Classical Awards, Diapason d’Or of the year, « Choc » of the Monde de la Musique, 10/10 from Classica...\nThey both won a Victoire de la Musique. They paly all over the world. In 2005-2006, they created the theatrical concert « le Block 15, la musique en résistance », directed by Jean Piat, the testimonies of two musicians saved by music during World War II. This show was played all over France and has been adapted or the French television (France 3).\nThey both have been appointed Chevaliers de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "**Guest post written by Katie Lott, Songwriting & Voice Coach, as featured in her blog Modern Songstress.\n\"So what the heck are royalties, and how do you get them? Royalties are fees that are paid to the composer (that’s you!) every time a song is played anywhere: radio, live venues, TV, satellite radio, internet radio, streaming services, etc.\"\nView Full Article", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jay S. Harrison, music editor of The New York Herald Tribune from 1948 to 1960, died yesterday at St. Luke's Hospital after a long illness. He was 47 years old and lived at 741 West End Avenue.\nMr. Harrison, a graduate of New York University, resigned from the Herald Tribune to become executive editor of Music magazine. Three years later he was named senior editor of Musical America.\nMr. Harrison was a member of the Metropolitan Opera's Saturday “Opera Quiz” broadcast, a music teacher at N.Y.U., musical consultant to Harper's Bazaar, director of the classical and opera division of the RCA Victor‐Reader's Digest Record Clubs and he wrote for both radio and television.\nA monodrama entitled “Last Day,” written by Mr. Harrison with music by Ned Rorem and, staged by the New School Opera Workshop, received favorable comment in 1967.\nMr. Harrison's marriage, to Jane Cohan, ended in divorce in 1966. Surviving are two daughters, Paige and Troy, and his mother; Stella Smolens.", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "Sonny And Brownie songs Product Information\nSonny And Brownie album for sale by Brownie Mcghee / Sonny Terry was released Jan 01, 1990 on the Universal Music label. Sonny And Brownie CD music contains a single disc with 12 songs.\nSonny And Brownie album for sale Product Description\nBrownie Mcghee / Sonny Terry - Sonny And Brownie Album Track Listing\n|1||People Get Ready|\n|2||Bring It On Home To Me|\n|3||You Bring Out the Boogie In Me|\n|Additional Track Information Sonny And Brownie album for sale|\n|6||White Boy Lost In the Blues|\n|7||Battle Is Over (But the War Goes On)|\n|8||Walkin' My Blues Away|\n|Additional Track Information Sonny And Brownie CD music|\n|9||Big Wind (Is A' Commin')|\n|10||Jesus Gonna Make It Alright|\n|11||God and Man|\n|12||On The Road Again|\n|Additional Track Information Sonny And Brownie buy CD music|\nSonny And Brownie buy CD music Customer Reviews\n||Best Intro to Sonnny and Brownie|\nThis album is probably the most commercial thing that Sonny and Brownie released with backing from 70's folk / blues stars.\nBy vic.hansen (Liverpool, UK)\nBeing an international customer, I was a little bit weary. This company is quick reliable, efficient and totally trustworthy. I saved $20 buying it from America rather than ordering it in from Australia.\nBy leonamc (Brisbane, Australia)\nheard this album?\nSonny And Brownie songs Product Details\nSonny And Brownie album for sale Other Ideas", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "Hub New Music debuted at Jordan Hall Sunday night with a concert dedicated to one composer, Kati Agócs. For someone who was new to Agócs, the evening was nearly ideal: short enough (about an hour, without intermission) that fatigue never set in, and consisting of stunningly varied works that clearly from a single personality. [BMint’s introductory article is here.]\nAgócs has been on the NEC Composition faculty since 2008, and Hub New Music is in its second full year of concertizing. The concert carried a paradoxical title, “Strength in Fragility”, which was misleading: “fragility” is not a term I think applied to this music, which even in its quietest moments displayed an unshakeable emotional core. It is often delicate and hushed, but never brittle or unstable.\nTwo works that featured the entire (or nearly the entire) Hub ensemble bookended the proceedings: the opener, Crystallography (2013), for Pierrot ensemble (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano) with percussion and soprano, and the closer, Immutable Dreams (2007), for Pierrot ensemble alone. The intervening works had smaller and more unusual instrumentation: “John Riley”, a movement for solo harp; Saint Elizabeth Bells for cimbalom and cello; and Hyacinth Curl (2016, and a world premiere) for soprano, mezzo-soprano and handbells.The larger instrumental works made the greatest impression.\nCrystallography set inscrutable texts drawn from the language of geology and rhetoric by the Canadian experimental poet Christian Bök. The poems, which selected carried the names of gems, were not intended to make semantic sense. For example, “Ruby” reads, in its entirety: “alizarine albedeo/oriflamme, orchestrina/oxyacetylene”. A “palindrome” according to the composer, it did not easily reveal the reversals one would expect, but it did possess a clear arch-like structure, with textures that increase and then decrease in density, and with a similar dramatic gradient, with a peaking perceptibly at the center. Agócs preserves remarkable clarity in her music despite the constant, complex layering was the preferred mode of development on display in these pieces. In Crystallography the percussion (played by Hub’s Maria Finklemeyer) set up beats that underpinned the long melodies in the soprano, rhythmic cells that shifted just often enough to keep the thoughtful listener on edge. Those melodies are picked up, modified and then transformed by the instruments, developing through accretion, repetition and deformation. The work remains a bit distant from the listener, a beautiful object observed at arm’s length. Guest artist Adrienne Arditti rendered the texts with a rich soprano and generous vibrato, italicizing the shifting vowels of the poems and giving the texts an aesthetic that the words themselves lacked. However, she missed the potential of the clashing consonants (“oblique optics”, “oriental nachtmusik”); the performance as a whole tended to sound soft-edged and blurry.\nImmutable Dreams closed the concert with an indelible impression. Muscular and direct, it comprised three intense and strongly contrasted movements. “I feel the air of other planets…”, a discursive study in color and articulation beggars description: my notes say things like “shapes and rising calls”, “folding/unfolding shafts of light”, “fallings and cascades.” “Microconcerto (in Memoriam György Ligeti)”, only “micro” in its relative brevity, featured authoritative playing from Hub pianist Ashley Zhang. She realized the wide-ranging textures from cool soliloquy to crashing clusters with a visceral force that never turned harsh or ugly. This set up the essay in extremities of tone that defined the final movement, “Husks”, that culminated in a manic, occasionally shrieking race to the end. This experience lingered well after the concert ended.\nThe middle pieces were less ambitious but no less well executed: Saint Elizabeth Bells conjured up a hallucinatory world of overtones, musical material derived from church bells near the hospital where father lay dying in 2011. The peculiar richness of the cimbalom (played by Nicholas Tolle) generated layers of harmonic haze within which Hub’s Allison Drenkow’s cello sang with lyric melancholy. “John Riley”, a movement from a work for solo harp called Every Lover is a Warrior, the slightest piece on the program, freely adapted an Appalachian song that cycled prettily through a number of decorative variations. Guest artist Ina Zdorovetchi, the coordinator of the Boston Conservatory harp program, played it with an elegant and relaxed virtuosity.\nBefore the premier of Hyacinth Curl, Agócs spoke of her desire to write a work that moved away from her predilection for complexity. Two voices, soprano and mezzo-soprano sing a text that Agócs derived from a Farsi ghazal (a sonnet-like poem), punctuated here and there by handbells played by the vocalists themselves. With only two voices the piece cannot engage in the dense layering that characterizes Agócs textures elsewhere. Instead we hear a constant intertwining of melodies recognizable as Agócs’s singing lines that are rich and occasionally angular. Subtle expression thus comes to a heated text that describes a “night of Power”, filled with “Beauty’s divan” and “ambrosial perfume” and “a chalice of the red wine of dawn-tide,” ending with the poet turning to worship the face of his beloved as the bells ring over and over. Arditti and Emily Harmon (another guest joining Hub for this concert) blended beautifully, achieving a restrained but effective aesthetic seduction.\nHaving first worked together in a classroom a couple of years ago, the composer and ensemble made an immediate connection; the performers displayed deep affinity for the music. If I have not singled out the remaining members of Hub New Music (Michael Avitabile, flute; David Dziardziel, clarinet; and Orin Alan Laursen, violin), it is because the ensemble plays as a single, sensitive organism that draws more attention to the music than to itself. Both Crystallography and Immutable Dreams works were conducted unfussily by guest David Yi, who must have had some hand in creating the two very different sound environments generated by similar instrumental forces.\nOn this evening’s evidence, Agócs possesses a distinct voice that is challenging without being elusive. She invites the listener without condescension. Her self-contained compositions make their impression quickly. In their brevity and variety they suggest a composer still seeking and discovering; a certain restlessness hints at more evolution to come. As it happened, the evening doubled as an informal release party for Agócs first CD, a disc of orchestral works recorded by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project which contains her largest work to date, The Debrecen Passion. I look forward to hearing what she does with a large ensemble, and to things to come.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "There is also another scale called Pentatonic Blues scale but we will not discuss this scale in this lesson. Once you've practiced 12-bar blues progression and feel comfortable playing those seventh chords, you can get to work deepening your blues abilities by trying out different ways to play your chords. Description. This goes for all aspects of guitar. Posted in Blog: Harmonica Articles. You need to be diligent and find the time to practice. Some of the chords will be repeated several times, others just twice. In blues, the 1 chord is always the same as the key name. In blues, the 1 chord is always the same as the key name. The 12-bar blues is by far the most popular form for the blues. Steve breaks down the basics of 12 bar blues piano in a really simple and fun way. Getting That \"Bluesy\" Sound You can play the blues with major and minor chords, but one thing that helps add the distinctive sound associated with the genre is making liberal use of seventh chords in your playing. Those flats are called blue notes. Stick with it, and you shall be rewarded.eval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'blackspotguitars_com-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_11',112,'0','0'])); The 12 bar blues in the key of G will require that you learn the following 7th chords: The C7 chord is a very versatile chord shape. You may recognise the sound of a turnaround from the start or end of your favourite blues tracks. We play the blues chords with just 2 strings/notes. Once you learn to play the 12-bar blues on the guitar, you can play such classic blues pieces as “Hound Dog,” “Stormy Monday,” “Kansas City,” “St. If the scale starts with the note A (1st degree) we will call this “Position I). Let’s take the A minor Pentatonic scale as an example. As I mentioned, there are so many different ways of playing blues chords. Don't worry if you can't play it perfectly yet, it takes a while. The chord diagrams below show easy open chord shapes you can use to play them. Here’s a look at a blues guitar lick in G that focuses mostly on the G Minor Pentatonic Scale , but adds the major 3rd at the end. Blue notes. This forces you to be creative and helps emphasize the importance of phrasing (so that you don’t sound like you’re stuck in … The shuffle rhythm The additional note we add to the chord is called “extension” and the chord will be called “extended chord”. Learn How To Play Dominant 7th Chords. The seemingly complicated chord shape is a rather natural way to hold your fingers. Instead, we will focus on how to play the blues on acoustic guitar using fingerpicking technique. This is possible because we will only pluck the three most important notes of the Dominant 7th chord, the I – III – VII. Legendary Delta blues guitarist Robert Johnson used open G tuning for many of his greatest songs, such as “Crossroad Blues,” “Walkin’ Blues,” and “Come On in My Kitchen,” among others. There’s a feeling you get from playing blues music that you don’t get from any other genre of music. Step 1. 6 Simple Blues Harmonica Riffs (That You Can Play Today!) Through these tabs you'll improve your technique by learning many beautiful blues compositions.. Now go grab your guitar, and start practicing. This structure is the number one formula every guitar player, learn. They are strongly connected to each other and found in every style of music, whether you’re playing rock, country, jazz or metal. Don’t get frustrated if one day you don’t see the progress. The simple acoustic blues chord progression is the backbone of making the music we call 'the blues'. What are 7th chords? Create your free account and access the student area where you will find a ton of fingerstyle guitar lessons for beginner and advanced guitar players. Become a Patron and access the full tab. Enjoy the songs, Each red box contains a bunch of single notes (most of the time 4) that can be played with either a guitar pick or the right hand fingertip. Why blues rhythm first - because it instills the rhythm of the blues into your nervous system and makes soloing over the chord changes seem so natural you'll think you were born to play the blues. In G minor, the 4 chord would be C minor. Do you know some? Typically, a turnaround is a 2 bar phrase that sits over the 11th and 12th bars of your usual 12 bar blues and acts to “turn around” the phrase back to the first chord. The backbone of the blues is the 12 bar blues, but of course, the blues is so much more than that. They’re easier than you think. In this section I am going to show you how to play the dominant 7th chords, also called blues chords. The difficulty of the songs increase from top to bottom. The main characteristic of the blues chord is the extended 7th (the seventh note starting from the root note) added to the chord. If you are a total beginner, take things step by step and learn one thing at a time. Do just learn the best guitar chord on guitar! You may notice that there are flats in the music. The notes in a G blues scale are as follows: G, B flat, C, D flat, D, F. A Blues Scale Bass TAB – Open Position. the top. This means that if you know the root note or chord, you can construct the rest of the 12 bar blues progression as well. I've put together blues guitar lessons in 3 steps. Download. It is easier to understand by hearing it: The above paragraphs are meant to give you a blues guitar primer. These three notes are the root note (I), the 3rd (III) and the 5th (V). The Pentatonic scale is the most used scale in Blues. Easy Blues on Acoustic Guitar for Beginners Combine Chords and Melody. In this guitar lesson, we are going to combine chords and melody. And don’t forget to swing! The second note on the 2nd fret, the E, is the 5th note from E. We will follow the same chord structure for the D7 to. For me guitar and blues are like salt and pepper, or like Yin and Yang. I suggest that you strum the chords several times. Hey, I'm making a compilation of blues songs in the key of G, to play along with my blues harp. In this week’s blues guitar lesson, I’ll show you how to improvise a blues lead using only 4 notes. The blues in G uses the three chords G7, C7 and D7. Nobody was born with a guitar in their hands. Both of these scales become super easy in the open position… I really relate to the fretboard in patterns. The guitar tab above (learn to read guitar tab) is an example of a very simple intro and outro, which you can memorize and use. In our key of G major, that would be C major. Playing the blues often comes down to a straight forward chord progression, which anyone can learn and play on the piano within minutes. Hundreds of songs have been recorded using it or variations of it. You're very welcome, glad you got something out of it! The Blues Power Chord has two notes only, the I and V. We can play around with the V degree and go up a whole step. Note: The disadvantage of learning such easy blues chords is that you can’t transpose them in a different key. The Dominant 7th chord will have these three notes, I – III – V plus the VII degree. Session template SOLO GOTO. Another chord used in blues progressions is known as the 4 chord, also called the subdominant. Thanks Brian for all you do for us guitarists who simply want to express ourselves with music, and get better. These are the notes we will play for each chord. The final chord in typical blues progressions is the 5 chord, also called the dominant. I found this site while I was browsing for scale charts, and I’m so glad I did. Easy Blues Guitar - Step by Step. This melody and rhythm combination is one of the basic building blocks of both the Blues and Rock and Roll. Though you might have employed a simple quarter note strumming pattern in learning the above blues progression, that's not the only way to go about it. For the minor Pentatonic only play the I III IV V VII from the minor scale. Alternative collabs. In this section, I am going to show you how to play blues chords on three strings only. 20 essential blues intros Listen: Intros 1-2 Intro 1: Easy acoustic in E. This should sound familiar to anyone who's ever listened to the blues. The 12-bar blues is by far the most popular form for the blues. With this special monthly pass you access all the courses on the site. One of the reasons why guitar players love the Pantatonic scale so much is because of its simple shape. Blues is based on a simple pattern. The shape will be the same. SoundCloud SoundCloud. A common form for the blues is a repeating 12 bar form (each bar has 4 beats). If you do not know it I have tabbed out one of the fingerings of the scale in the chart below. It was originated by African American in the deep South of America. The above isn't the only way the 12-bar blues can work, but it is fairly representative of what you can expect from a blues progression and a good way to get started. Well, today we have a Top 20 Easy Guitar Songs for Beginners. The notes in an A blues scale are as follows: A, C, D, E flat, E, G. Note: this scale is the same pattern as that used in the E blues scale open position scale, but played on the adjacent strings. “extension” and the chord will be called “extended chord”, difference between the C major chord and the C7 chord, the three left hand golden rules we talked about in the beginner course, I am going to show you how to combine chords and melody, 1 Weird Trick to Memorizing Pentatonic Patterns. In the G major scale, the notes are: G (the 1, or root), A (the 2nd), B (the 3rd), C (the 4th), D (the 5th), E (the 6th), and F# (the 7th), and then you are back to G again. Here’s a video to help you learn how to do some easy improvisation using the 12 bar blues on ukulele. Easy Blues Guitar - Step by Step. We pay attention to the accent of the notes and get a blues rhythm going. What is the shuffle rhythm? Here is a list of 18 easy blues songs to learn: “Boom Boom” - John Lee Hooker. Playing in the key of G means that we can use Em Diatonic OR Em Pentatonic. This lesson can help you. Because we are playing a slow shuffle blues, the basic blues chords for beginners, the blues chords with bar chords and the fingerstyle chords we learned at the beginning of this article won’t work. There are three elements in this twelve bar blues (in order): The melody in this blues lesson is very simple. Another chord used in blues progressions is known as the 4 chord, also called the subdominant. If we start the scale with the note G, which is the 5th degree of the scale, we will call this position “Position V”. Notice how the chords in the square have two notes. So it’s a good thing for every guitar player to learn some vital blues skills. Listen to mp3 12 Easy Slide Licks in Open-G For the major Pentatonic, only play the I II III V VI from the major scale. Drums: akethesnaker 2741 jams . Here’s a look at a blues guitar lick in G that focuses mostly on the G Minor Pentatonic Scale, but adds the major 3rd at the end. Remix step I MUTE. Louis Blues,” “Easy Rider,” and “Corrina, Corrina.” Each of these songs follows the 12-bar blues pattern […] The Pentatonic formula is very simple: Check the diagram below to learn the difference between the major and minor Pentatonic in A. Check the tab below to learn the fingerstyle blues chords. https://www.learnjazzstandards.com/blog/28-jazz-blues-heads-you-need-to-know 12 Bar Blues Chords & Scales for Guitar The 12 bar blues is a 12 bar long chord progression that solo blues musicians can easily improvise over the top of because the chord progression is familiar to them. Notice that all the chords are Dominant 7th or simply called 7th chords. This is put together as 3 phrases or sections, each being 4 bars long. Read on: 1. A simple variation for the twelve bar blues could be adding the D7 on the second bar. The Blues is one of the simplest styles of music of the 19th Century. Instead, we are going to use a different type of chord called “Blues Power Chord”. Sign in Create account. For all you blues beginners out there, in this video I will teach you the A pentatonic scale and three basic blues licks that use this scale. For this you would use the blues scale. The blues has been prominent in modern music since the 1930s and has a deep, soulful, rich sound, Whether it’s a killer solo from the guitarist or a tight rhythm section working together; blues music has a great groove. They practiced a lot! Step 1. Literally only two notes! So to form a 7th chord, you need to include the following notes in your chord: This lesson will teach how to play easy 12 bar blues progressions with open chords. Guys, I hope you enjoyed this easy blues lesson. The chord progression is easy for beginners because it only uses three chords, the root, the fourth, and the fifth. The opposite of straigth rhythm. One of the challenges of playing in different tunings is the need to learn a bunch of new shapes to play chords you already know how to play in standard tuning. I know we covered many things. Leigh Fuge of MGR Music works through 10 easy blues guitar licks for beginners that can be quickly worked into a practice routine. If we play the scale from each degree (note) we will generate five Pentatonic shapes (also called Pentatonic positions). In addition to being 12 bars in length, the 12-bar blues has its own internal logic. It is a movable shape, just like a barre chord. The guitar tab above (learn to read guitar tab) is an example of a very simple intro and outro, which you can memorize and use. What exactly are these 3 steps? Thank you so much. In blues music, the turnaround is a familiar companion. Through these tabs you'll improve your technique by learning many beautiful blues compositions.. I worked really hard to write the easiest arrangement for beginners. If you want to play, for example, a blues in C major, you will have to learn the C7, F7 and G7 shape. A basic major or minor chord is made of three notes, the I III and V degree of the scale. Easy Blues Lead Using Just 4 Notes – Blues Guitar Lesson – EP251. Em is the relative 6th of G, therefore is the minor scale that you use to solo in. As always, take things step by step and learn one thing every day. One of the challenges of playing in different tunings is the need to learn a bunch of new shapes to play chords you already know how to play in standard tuning. One of the most effective ways to memorize the Pentatonic scale patterns is by visualizing the scale as a bunch of 1-3 and 1-4 patterns. Hi, the % sign means to repeat the previous chord. The difficulty of the songs increase from top to bottom. This particular lesson is great because it’s just a simple blues in G that will really help you get the feel. Blues In The Closet– easy blues head; C-Jam Blues– easiest blues head of all time. The 12 bar blues is the most basic blues chord progression.eval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'blackspotguitars_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_3',106,'0','0'])); As it's name would suggest, it is made up of 12 bars (or measures), which are laid out in a very specific order: The progression uses the I, IV and V chords of the major scale. After you grasp that logic and use it to shape your phrases, playing the blues on your harmonica will seem as natural as talking. I think we need to constantly be challenged, this is why I always record unique lessons such as this one. It was originated by African American in the deep South of America. The scales I used for the blues melody are the A major and A minor Pentatonic scale. Using the open-string friendly key of E, this descending figure creeps back up to the V chord (B) ready for the first verse. Now let me show you my favorite twelve bar fingerstyle blues chords. First, all five of these easy blues guitar licks come out of the minor pentatonic scale. In the G major scale, the notes are: G (the 1, or root), A (the 2nd), B (the 3rd), C (the 4th), D (the 5th), E (the 6th), and F# (the 7th), and then you are back to G again. 03. Focus only on the top two strings and spend a little bit of time learning the melody. Easy acoustic in g Outro 4: Advanced acoustic in G . Blues Riffs- A riff is a slang term for a short musical phrase that is usually repeated or repeatable.Simple blues riffs are perhaps the most common way for one to begin improvising on the diatonic harmonica. A technique that seems impossible today will get easier and easier with practice. Marty covers tuning the guitar, playing a basic blues in open G, and some more simple chord progressions that sound great in this tuning. The C#o means C sharp diminished. Then you can get familiar with common open and moveable chord forms and create your own blues guitar style. Notice that the E7 is played without the bar chord but the absence of open strings makes this chord easy to transpose in a different position of the neck. If you are serious about learning to play blues guitar, here are some tips: Learning to play the blues will not be an overnight thing, but it can be done. The chords you will need to learn to play the 12 bar blues in the key of A are:eval(ez_write_tag([[336,280],'blackspotguitars_com-large-leaderboard-2','ezslot_1',110,'0','0'])); These are easy open chords, which you will be able to learn in no time at all using the videos above. Riding the line between classic and modern blues, “Boom Boom” by John Lee Hooker was once dubbed “\"the greatest pop song he ever wrote\" by music critics. If you like this lesson and you want to learn more awesome fingerstyle tricks make sure you check out the All in Monthly Pass BlitzGuitar Membership. Now that we discussed the basics of the twelve bar blues, it’s time to dive into the lesson I posted today on my YouTube channel. All open strings give the G major chord G-B-D (that’s why it’s called open tuning) and the IV (C) and V (D) chords are simply 5 and 7 frets higher, like in standard tuning. To make things more interesting, we will be learning our chord progression with the quick-change variation of the 12 bar blues.eval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'blackspotguitars_com-box-4','ezslot_0',108,'0','0'])); You will need to learn 7th chords to be able to get that bluesy sound. The chords you will need to play in the key of E are: As I mentioned, the B7 will be the most difficult chord to master. The B7 is the most difficult chord out of all of them, but it is actually pretty easy once you practice it for a while. Use thumb and fingers for simultaneous notes and to avoid the unused strings on those 7#9 chords at the finish. 12 bar blues in open G. The 12 bar blues in the key of G will require that you learn the following 7th chords: G7; C7; D7; The C7 chord is a very versatile chord shape. “Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel”-Jimi Hendrix. The 12 bar blues is a chord progression used in blues and rock music that lasts for 12 bars. The Pentatonic scale is just 5 notes. Musicians Remixes Chords. This is a very basic blues intro, which leads immediately into the main part of the song. Blues Guitar Lick in G Frequently, blues guitarists will mix major and minor scale tones in their licks. Once you learn to play the 12-bar blues on the guitar, you can play such classic blues pieces as “Hound Dog,” “Stormy Monday,” “Kansas City,” “St. Here at BlitzGuitar.com you will also find a ton of fingerstyle guitar programs that can really transform your guitar playing. In order to execute this … For the A7 you will play two notes on the 4th string. This chord progression is based around the most important chords in a key I, IV & V (1, 4 & 5) and is repeated over and over for the duration of the piece. By Alex Paclin. It is a movable shape, just like a barre chord. I've put together blues guitar lessons in 3 steps. It’s a pretty simple blues but … The chords for this lesson are the A, D and E chords. Playlist . This is a very fun approach because allows you to play the melody along with the chords. Remember, to turn this combination of notes into a blues progression, simply play the same combination in the chords of C, F, and G in the 12-bar blues pattern. In G minor, the 4 chord would be C minor. Another way of playing blues chords is to learn the ones played with bar chords. The final chord in typical blues progressions is the 5 chord, also called the dominant. Here's a beginner lesson that shows you how to play blues in the key of G with easy guitar chords. An easy Blues shuffle in the key of A lesson. 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{"text": "AFRO-POP musician Que Montana — whose four-year recording deal with South Africa’s Cool spot — has run its course is now back in the country and has announced his return with the release of his fifth album, Sara Ugarike.\nBY ANESU MUSHAWATU\nBorn Brighton Kufa, the musician who rose to fame in 2011 with the song Sei which topped charts on local radio stations, said his latest offering was a reflection of musical maturity.\nSpeaking to NewsDay Life & Style, the Huya Titaurirane hitmaker said his decision to come back home was influenced by the need to reconnect with his fans.\n“I decided to come back home after all these years because I was starving my local fans as more of the songs were in English and Zulu and my sound had changed completely. Although music in South Africa was good, I needed to rekindle my career and reconnect with my local fans,” he said.\n“Sara Ugarike is a fusion of my different genres from across Africa with a Zimbabwean sound. From the album, one can actually get traces of West African music with some Pasada music from Mozambique and we revived music from great brands such as Ilanga.”\nThe former Andy Brown bass guitarist said the 13-track Sara Ugarike was named by his fans.\n“My album titles have always been based on the theme of the project but this time around I sampled the album to my fans who then selected Sara Ugarike as their best song, hence the name,” she said.\nThe multi-instrumentalist has worked with a number of local and international artistes including South African producer Techno Beats, Rozalla Miller, Tanga WekwaSando, Afrika Revenge as well as Ammara Brown and Taurai Mandebvu.\nThe album also carries the tracks Mudiwa Usadero, Siluwe, Lover Lover, Sara Ugarike, Munondishushirei, Kure Kure, Kumauro, Stop Playing with My Mind, I Miss You, Ndamirira, Sinyoro naSinorita and Tsvete Tsvete.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Actor | Composer | Music Department\nIn 1993, Pooja Bhatt recorded a English rap song titled \"Just For Today\" with Daboo Malik for his debut album \"In Love\". There is no trace of this album anywhere online. At this time in his career, Daboo was using the name Krish Malik. In 1997, ...\nIsrar Sardaar Malik\nBombay, Maharashtra, India", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In Twisted Shapes, students become aware of the different shapes their bodies make. Shape cards are used to create group choreography and improvisational activities relating to curricular themes and dance content.\nOne deck of Twisted Shapes Dance Literacy Game\nRETURN & REFUND POLICY\nNo refunds or returns\nShipping is a flat fee, $7.50 for domestic orders and $20 for international.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Blues Piano Lessons\nBlues Piano Lessons\nBlues Piano Lessons\nBlues Piano Lessons – Learn to Play the Blues Today\nMany people believe that the primary motivation behind learning to play the piano is to be able to play the “best” music and to impress others with their newly acquired knowledge. The thought of having others look at them and say “what song did you learn last week?” however, can get us as excited as they do.\nLearning to play the piano is more than just a series of learning lessons. It is an activity that requires ongoing attention to certain things. These things are: สล็อตเว็บตรงไม่ผ่านเอเย่นต์\n2. Music has a good beat\n3. The piano should be in tune\n4. Instructional graphics and music\nconcentrate on these factors and allow the learner to focus on these areas. The “problem” is that, as individuals learn to play the piano via instructional media, they become engrossed in a variety of things that can detract from their musical and creative hobbies. Every person has the melody within them of course, but they need to have the means to expose their individual talents and expressions to everyone around them.Blues Piano Lessons\nThe solution to this problem is to take lessons and to use technology products that delight our senses and stimulate our mind. For instance, a fantastic “new age” piano method, such as those created and taught by Rocket Piano [http://www.the- potato.com], will gently pace you through various rhythms and stylistic nuances of songs, helping you discover and develop your own unique accompaniment. Other piano “how-to” books will show you how to:Blues Piano Lessons\n1. Understand the fundamentals of musicBlues Piano Lessons\n2. Create accompaniment (the chords, notes, phrases, etc.)\n3. Learn to recognize known songs\n4. Read sheet music (ightly clean copy)\nThese books will enhance your abilities and creativity while developing your potential as a musician and increasing your motivation to learn.Blues Piano Lessons\nMost of these piano-learning methods and technBlues Piano Lessonsiques, work well with yet other piano forms (such as organs, harpsichords, etc.). However, when utilized in conjunction with each other, they can greatly speed up your learning, enhance your learning process, and even make you a better musician — better in multiple ways.Blues Piano Lessons\nAlso, it should be noted that one of the primary skills you will need to develop at a Grammy Award winning maestro is the ability to create, create, create — on your own. With those skills, you will be one of the most successful, innovative, and well-whatever at the piano.\noils that create an environment of harmony and magic to others. Your vision of how you want things to be. Most of us have heard about the movie, “The Sixth Sense” — but did you know that the actual name of the movie was actually a mistake?\nIt was the director who meant the words, “Sixth sense” instead of the usual ” sensation”. That’s how he ended up with that movie.\nWith a great, traditional way of looking at life, you learn to accept limits and Overview. You learn to be gentle on yourself. You learn to love yourself and accept love all without without strings attached. You begin to read and understand your life’s story as a whole and not just in bits and pieces.\nYou begin to feel the unity with all of life, as one cohesive unit, and not a series of events.\nYou know the reason for action. You know the exactly reason for action.\nYou know what you want. You know exactly what you want. And you’ll feel the bliss associated with ability when you achievement that which you set out to obtain.\nSo members of the piano world, regardless of type of piano playing, are high-minded people. They set aside theirlime yellow tastes for the unfortunately necessary social mixer.\nThey understand the benefits of setting aside socializing for the higher purpose.\nPiano playing is a social commitment. Social commitment. Creative commitment. grit, character, and vision count above most the current day’s challenges.\nThey set aside their social consoles for the greater good.\nPiano playing is more than a hobby. It’s a way of life. A calling. A history. And a Dynasty.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "CORONAVIRUS: 22Feb21 UpdateAll UK venues closed on 16th March 2020. After the Prime Minister's announcement it would appear that, subject to continued control of the virus, venues may re-open with social distancing and limits on audiences from 17th May. Social distancing restrictions may be removed from 21st June. We will continue to update our listings as much as possible to reflect the changes as/when they are reported.\nWales's leading dance company. Diversions presents Alternative Routes 2008. This distinctive âsecond seasonâ includes new work from some of the brightest and best choreographers and dancers currently working in Wales. This compelling tripe bill includes a special Taliesin Arts Centre commission for choreographer Joanne Fong to work with renowned violinist Rakhi Singh*. Two other emerging choreographers, Eleesha Drennan and Lee Johnston will work with designers from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in unique collaborations formed through creativity and imagination. Alternative Routes is a co-production between Diversions; The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama; Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Taliesin Arts Centre and Theatr Brychieniog. Donât miss it. Diversions Dance Company - Alternative Routes website\n.Company The Dance Company of Wales.\nCookies in Use", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SEEKINGAccordion, Background Singer, Bagpipes, Banjo, Cello, Clarinet, DJ, Dobro, Electronic Music, Fiddle, Flute, Harmonica, Harp, Lead Guitar, Mandolin, Other, Other Percussion, Steel guitar, Ukulele, Upright bass, Violin, Vocalist, Vocalist - Alto, Vocalist - Baritone.\nMr. Fantastik is an international artist based in Vancouver, BC Canada. He was born in a historic town called Cape Coast, Ghana, the place enriched with its own history, music, and entertainment. Music and dancing are embedded in their own culture and daily living – fishing and farming.\nAt a very tender age, Mr. Fantastik lost his family. He became an orphan and ended up in Little Ashram, a village in Ghana called Asian Fasu where Vedas Spiritual Practice shaped and strengthened his spiritual growth. He practiced all kinds of yoga and focused on spiritual life self-discipline. At the age of ten, he moved back to his birth place, Cape Coast and joined the center for national culture, learning and talent development, AGRO company, where he realized that he was given a special gift of talent, not only writing and composing his own music at a young age, but to dance and do so many circus acrobatic tricks, the ability to feel and play any kind of instrument naturally.\nMr. Fantastik is a Reggae and Dancehall artist who fuses African and Jamaican influences and blends them with circus acrobatics, a must-see stage show. Having spent many years travelling internationally as a circus performer and acrobat, it is not unusual to see Mr. Fantastik blending his skills in Afro pop music, Afro folk music, Reggae Dancehall music, R&B and Hip hop. With his easy-going, charismatic stage manner, he has been consistently providing colorful, dynamic performance on every stage he has been invited to and grabbing the attention of numerous audiences in all ages and cultures.\nAs an international artist, Humanitarian activist and a yogi, Mr. Fantastik has been straddling the boundaries between Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and the U.S. organizing the workshops and performing shows and festivals to raise funds to build the centre for national culture learning and talent development for street kids in his hometown, Cape Coast, Ghana to motivate and bring hope to the future generations. This multi-talented performer has also shared the stages with the artists such as Alpha Blondy, Elephant Man, Morgan Heritage, Cat Power, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Jose Gonzalez, Eddie Kenzo, Emmanuel Jal, the Tallest Man on Earth, Foy Vance, Lord Huron, and the Cat Empire, Cecile Doo-Kingue, the New Pornographers, Jojo Abot, Alpha Yaya Dialo, Tooth and the Maytals, Maxi Prast, Delhi to Dublin, Black Seeds, Tasman Jude and many others.\nNamed one of Africa’s Top 10 Global Stars by CTV, he has showcased his talent at the prestigious venues such as The Vogue Theatre Vancouver, BC, Granville Studio Records Vancouver BC, The Commodore Ballroom Vancouver BC and The Rio Theatre.\nHe has established his own musical and acrobatics, dance company, toured and played in many venues, festivals & TV shows, such as:\nJasper Folk Festival, Corona Whistler Beer Music Festival, Maple Ridge Caribbean Festival, North Vancouver Caribbean Days Festival, African Descent Festival (2018)\nBurnaby Afro festival, Richmond World Music Festival, One Love Reggae Festival (2017)\nSurrey Kids Festival, Victoria Ska and Reggae Festival, Calgary Folk Festival, Sound Wave Festival, Squamish Music Festival (2016)\nCalgary International Reggae Festival, Panafest History Festival (toured Africa and beyond with a Ghanaian/Danish dance theater group (2015)\nVancouver Reggae Festival (2014)\nSo You Think You Can Dance Canada TV Show, Zionk D Kids TV Show (2013)\n* Surrey Fusion Festival, Maple Ridge Caribbean Festival, North Vancouver Caribbean Days, African Descent Festival (2010-2018)\nForward Festival 2008\nMr. Fantastik continues on his journey of music, dance and acrobatics in North America with Jah request root life reggae band and has been recording over 60 mixtapes, EP’s, singles, and collaborating with other artists. Recently, he was on a tour to Ghana for radio and TV interviews about his Youth Foundation Program and music, and also recorded two hit singles – New Dancehall King and Ready and Steady that can be found on all online music shops.\n“Life is with my super powerful energy” (Music is food for soul) is Mr. Fantastik’s quote. “We are music so let it play from the soul”.\n- Screen name:\n- Kaboom empire band\n- Member since:\n- Jun 01 2018\n- Active within 1 month\n- Level of commitment:\n- Very Committed\n- Years together:\n- Gigs played:\n- Over 100\n- Available to gig:\n- 1 night a week\n- 42 years\nBob Marley Capleton Sizzla ,Anthony B\nDone william, Vybz Kartel\nMembers Of Band\nIf i die young\nIf i die young Track number: 1 Year: 2018 Album: Single Genre: Reggae\nLife Track number: 1 Year: 2018 Album: Single Genre: R&B\nFroze them Track number: 1 Year: 2018 Album: Single Genre: Reggae\nNew dance hall king\nNew dance hall king Track number: 1 Year: 2018 Album: Single Genre: Reggae\nBumboclaat Track number: 1 Year: 2018 Album: Single Genre: Reggae\nMr Fantastik -Fusion festival Canada (Video)\nMr Fantastik -Fusion festival CanadamXxefZMwfL4\nMr Fantastik Band pratice (Video)\nMr Fantastik Band praticehDkoVa1nEwU\nMr Fantastik back stage lounge (Video)\nMr Fantastik back stage loungemeDwXk1zcMI", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This Friday, moviegoers will head into theaters to enjoy Minions: The Rise Of Gru, which serves as the sequel to 2015’s Minions. Accompanying the animated film will be a soundtrack that contains songs from Diana Ross, Kali Uchis, BROCKHAMPTON, Thundercat, Yeat, RZA, Tierra Whack, Jackson Wang, and more.\nOver the weekend, H.E.R. unveiled “Dance To The Music,” her contribution to the aforementioned compilation. As the title suggests, the Jack Antonoff-produced track sees the multi-talent getting the proverbial party started over some funky, upbeat vibes:\n“All we need is a drummer, for people who only need a beat, yeah, I’m gonna add a little guitar, to make it easy to move your feet, baby, we should add some bottom, so that the dancers just won’t hide, you might like to hear my organ, I said ‘Ride, Sally, ride,‘ yeah, if I could hear the horns blowin’, baby, let me hear you blew, listen to me, oh, we’ve got a message, they’re sayin’, listen to the voices…”\nPress play on “Dance To The Music” — and check out the full tracklisting for the Minions: The Rise Of Gru soundtrack — below.\nMinions: The Rise Of Gru (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) tracklist:\n- “Turn Up The Sunshine” by Diana Ross and Tame Impala\n- “Shining Star” by Brittany Howard feat. Verdine White\n- “Funkytown” by St. Vincent Lyrics\n- “Hollywood Swinging” by BROCKHAMPTON\n- “Desafinado” by Kali Uchis\n- “Bang Bang” by Caroline Polachek\n- “Fly Like An Eagle” by Thundercat\n- “Goodbye To Love” by Phoebe Bridgers\n- “Instant Karma!” by Bleachers\n- “You’re No Good” by Weyes Blood\n- “Vehicle” by Gary Clark Jr.\n- “Dance To The Music” by H.E.R.\n- “Black Magic Woman” by Tierra Whack\n- “Cool” by Verdine White\n- “Born To Be Alive” by Jackson Wang\n- “Cecilia by The Minions”\n- “Bang Bang” by G.E.M.\n- “Kung Fu Suite” by RZA\n- “Minions: The Rise of Gru Score Suite” by Heitor Pereira\n- “Rich Minion” by Yeat", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ARABIC SUBTITLED SONGS provides Arabic songs with English subtitles. The page lists only a few songs at present, including one for Fairouz that our choir sings. Obviously more songs will be coming to this channel. While we cannot speak for the quality of the translation; it just just a cool attempt that will help many Arabic music fans.\nARABIC SUBTITLED SONGS", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The season thirteen finale was one week we will never forget! For the final performance night,the Top 2 – Jena Irene and Caleb Johnson–sang three songs for America’s votes. The first round of songs were songs of their choice, the second were songs of the season, and the third round of songs were their potential winner singles.\nLast night, Caleb Johnson was officially crowned the winner of American Idol season thirteen! The Top 12 returned to the stage to perform together one last time, the remaining contestants performed with KISS and Paramore, and Lady Antebellum, Demi Lovato, Jennifer Nettles, Jason Mraz , John Legend, Darius Rucker, and Phillip Phillips were the special guests for the evening.\nInterviews with the Top 2, special guests, and judges from the grand finale are below. Are YOU happy that Caleb Johnson won?\nCaleb Johnson’s debut album is set to be released on August 12, 2014 on Interscope Records.\nCaleb Johnson Interview – American Idol XIII Grand Finale\nJena Irene Interview – American Idol XIII Grand Finale\nKeith Urban Interview – American Idol XIII Grand Finale\nHarry Connick, Jr. Interview – American Idol XIII Grand Finale\nCasey Abrams Interview – American Idol XIII Grand Finale\nCaleb Johnson Wins American Idol XIII – Full Press Conference\nJena Irene Exit Interview – Full Press Conference\nPhotos: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Uranus Recording Of Tempe\nRecording Studio in Tempe, AZ\nRecording and Music studio situated in Tempe, Arizona. World Class Music Producers available for any kind of recording project. Digital Recording studio featuring Pro Tools HD and huge live room. Historic Arizona recording studio features Neve and Manley microphone preamplifiers, pretty live music room for recording and music performance. Microphones include Nuemann, Shure, AKG and vintage ribbon microphones for recording any kind of musical instrument or recording session.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Song Pages and Searches\nThese pages show:\n- where to find the song in our books (book, chapter, page #) - if it's in Rise Up Singing or Rise Again\n- one of more YouTube links where you can listen to the song\n- who composed the song (with links to their artist pages so you can see other songs composed or recorded by that artist)\n- the song genre and culture of the song\n- links to online information on the song (on Wikipedia, Mudcat Cafe, etc.)\nThe song search page enables you to find songs by:\n- song title or first line\n- \"culture\" (which means by language, religion, ethnicity, etc.)\n- song genre (e.g. composed folk, traditional folk, blues, country, and various kinds of popular music)\nWe will be adding searches in the future by \"show\" (musical, film, TV) and topic/subject.\nNote: you can often do a quick search for a song title using the search box (magnifying glass) in the upper right hand corner of any page.\nThe search currently does not seem to work for apostrophes and some other symbols. You don't have to enter the all of a title so focus on fewer words if possible.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Russian pianist Denis Matsuev, acclaimed for his formidable virtuosity and the controlled power of his playing, is the LSO’s featured artist this season.\nHe opens the 2014/15 series with two all-Russian programmes under the LSO’s outgoing Music Director, Valery Gergiev. Here he tackles Prokofiev’s dazzling Third Concerto, between Shostakovich’s best-loved symphony and the first in a symphonic cycle inspired by Dante’s 'Divine Comedy' by one of Shostakovich’s most prolific pupils.\nProgramme & Performers\nTishchenko Dante Symphony No 1 (‘Among the Living’)\nProkofiev Piano Concerto No 3\nShostakovich Symphony No 10\nValery Gergiev conductor\nDenis Matsuev piano\nLondon Symphony Orchestra\nAlso in this series:\nTue 23 Sep - LSO / Gergiev / Matsuev\nTue 11 Nov - LSO / Gergiev / Matsuev\nThu 13 Nov - LSO / Gergiev / Matsuev\nThu 19 Feb - LSO / Gergiev / Simovic\nTue 12 May - LSO / Gergiev / Znaider\nPart of London Symphony Orchestra 2014–15", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "When: 11/16/2012, 7:30 pm\nLocation: Performing Arts Center\nA free jazz concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, in the PAC’s main performance hall.\nMusic aficionados will be treated to a medley of arrangements by Mic Gillette as well as classic soul hits from Tower of Power when the Thursday Night Band and the Bayou Big Band host Jazz @ Lee College.\n“Jazz @ Lee College is a semi-annual concert hosted by the Thursday Night Band, formerly the Lee College Jazz Ensemble, and the Bayou Big Band,” explained Dr. Ken Booker, director of instrumental music at Lee College, and conductor of the Thursday Night Band, a credit course dedicated to the performance of “big band” music.\n“These joint concerts actually began more than 10 years ago,” Dr. Booker continued. “At that time, my colleague, Dennis Eichler, was serving as director of both the Lee College Jazz Ensemble and the Bayou Big Band, and had established a series of on-campus concerts. When I took over the ensemble, I was happy to carry on the tradition.”\nEach year the groups host two major concerts highlighting jazz specialists and well-known soloists. The Nov. 16 concert will feature a special performance by renowned trumpeter Mic Gillette.\nA distinguished performer, recording artist, educator, and music advocate, Gillette’s five-decade career includes horns work with Cold Blood, Tower of Power and Sons of Champlin. Additionally, he has been featured on countless albums for artists including Santana, The Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow, the Doobie Brothers, Quincy Jones, Rod Stewart, Elton John, and others.\nAs an educator, Gillette established “Music in Schools,” a program dedicated to helping struggling music programs nationwide keep their doors open, and continues to teach, record, arrange and perform in his home state of California.\n“Dennis has always made an effort to secure jazz artists with national stature for each of our fall concerts,” Dr. Booker continued. “Additionally, we have been very fortunate over the years to have the support of Mike Spletter and the Campus Activities Board. Without the efforts of these two men, we would not be able to bring these great artists to our campus.\n“As for Mic Gillette, he’s simply a spectacular player,” Dr. Booker continued. “Many of us became familiar with his work through Tower of Power, and since then he has developed a reputation as one of the best in the business, who is also known for his outreach to students. We are truly looking forward to having him here, not only to hear him play, but to offer our students an opportunity to work with an artist who has been ‘in the business’ for decades.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "There aren’t many drummers in the world more famous than Buddy Rich. He was one of the first few drumming celebrities, and he’s still considered one of the greatest drummers to ever live.\nHe had a long and successful musical career that saw him performing with jazz legends and then becoming one himself. To this day, people still analyze his playing to figure out all the crazy things he did.\nWe’re going to give you a brief breakdown of Buddy Rich’s life, the artists he worked with, his gear, and his playing style.\n- 1 Notable For\n- 2 History\n- 3 Notable Artists That Buddy Rich Played With\n- 4 Drumming Style\n- 5 Gear\n- 6 Personality\n- 7 Notable Performances\n- 8 Final Thoughts on Buddy Rich\n- Being a world-famous drummer throughout the 20th century\n- Having incredible speed behind the drum kit\n- Being a strong advocate for traditional grip\n- Playing mind-blowing drum solos\n- Influencing thousands of drummers\n- Having a short temper and being unlikeable to many people who worked with him\nBuddy was born in Brooklyn, New York, and he was playing drums by the time he was a toddler. He was already touring with bands when he was a teenager, and he ended up becoming the second-highest-paid child entertainer in the United States.\nHe performed all over the world for the rest of his life, playing big band gigs and appearing in movies and TV shows.\nHe was primarily a jazz drummer, and he performed with several jazz legends over his lifespan.\nUnfortunately, he died from a brain tumor in 1987, which was discovered in the middle of a tour. He was playing gigs right until the end, and his legacy has remained larger than ever in the drumming industry since his death.\nNotable Artists That Buddy Rich Played With\nGene Krupa was the other largely famous jazz drummer that appeared on TV shows alongside Buddy Rich. The two of them worked on several projects together, and they’re typically noted as two of the earliest influences when it comes to drum kit playing.\nDizzy Gillespie was an incredible trumpet player, and he performed with Buddy Rich on a few projects. Their gig together at the Grande Parade du Jazz festival in 1978 is a particular highlight.\nLouis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald\nWhile Buddy Rich was always the center of every band he played in during his later years, there was one album that he did with Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, where he mostly played brushes.\nIt’s called Ella and Louis, and it’s a bit of a hidden gem. You see a different side of Buddy’s playing, and it’s highly musical.\nThe Buddy Rich Big Band\nThe Buddy Rich Big Band was the most notable project that Buddy was a part of. This was his band, and dozens of guest jazz artists came to perform with him.\nHe would travel the world with this band, and people ended up coming to the shows just to see Buddy Rich’s skills in action.\nThe Buddy Rich Big Band is still going strong, and they typically get guest drummers to perform with them.\nBuddy Rich’s drumming style showed a combination of immense speed, exciting power, and immaculate control over his technique. When watching videos of him playing, it’s amazing to see how much control he has over everything he is doing.\nWhile he’s mostly known as the drummer who played crazy things all the time, he was a tremendous timekeeper as well. When you listen to albums where he sits in the background, you can hear how tightly he keeps all the musicians together.\nThe one aspect of his playing that most people always go back to is his speed. He was known for playing lengthy drum solos, and he always played fast patterns around the kit that would turn anyone’s head when hearing or seeing them.\nBuddy Rich was a big advocator of traditional grip. While he occasionally used matched grip, he was very strong in his opinion that using traditional grip was the “correct” way of playing the drum set.\nWhile Buddy Rich was always using Zildjian cymbals, he played a few different drum brands throughout his career.\nHe was mostly playing Ludwig drums toward the end of his career, and he played Slingerland and Rogers drum kits before that. He also regularly used a Fibes snare drum.\nOne of the downsides of Buddy Rich’s legacy is that many people have stated that he was an awful person to be around. He was very hardheaded, and his perfectionist approach often came across as arrogant and brash.\nHe would regularly get into fights with people that he worked with, and the members of his big band came out and said that he was quite militant in his ways.\nWith that being said, a lot of the people that he fought with still had a great appreciation for him. One of the most notable artists with this view was Frank Sinatra.\nBuddy Rich Impossible Drum Solo\nThis is perhaps one of the most famous videos of Buddy Rich playing the drums. He played drum solos like this all the time, and throughout the whole thing, you can see his incredible skills being displayed.\nIt’s also crazy to think that he was ripping solos like this at retirement age.\nHere’s a clip of Buddy Rich playing with a big band. He takes more of a supportive role here, but you can still see how effective his playing was within a band setup.\nGene Krupa and Buddy Rich Drum Battle\nHere’s one of the collaborations between Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. It’s a special part of drumming history, as these are two of the most famous drummers to play the instrument performing together on stage.\nFinal Thoughts on Buddy Rich\nBuddy Rich isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. A lot of drummers prefer to take influence from jazz drummers like Max Roach and Elvin Jones. However, you can’t understate just how much of an effect Buddy Rich had on the music industry.\nHe may have had a difficult personality to deal with, but his playing ability was out of this world at the time. Many people still consider him to be the best drummer to ever live, and that’s saying something, considering the large number of drummers that are well-known these days.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Venerable guitarist Ernest Ranglin, the godfather of ska and an architect in reggae’s creation, will celebrate his 90th birthday on June 13. Prior to reaching that milestone, the self-taught patriarch of popular Jamaican music (and one of the finest jazz guitarists in the world) will release a new album, Two Colors (May 27, Tad’s Record), a collaboration with another Jamaican luminary, saxophonist and Two Colors producer Dean Fraser, 64.\nRanglin and Fraser have impeccably woven ska, reggae, jazz and other styles into their instrumental compositions for the album. “I wrote new songs because I am playing with young men, so I don’t want to put too much old something on there,” laughed Mr. Ranglin during an interview with Billboard at his home in the hills above Ocho Rios, Jamaica, in late March. The friendly, silver-haired guitar maestro exudes the warmth of a beloved uncle or grandfather. Turning to Fraser seated next to him, Ranglin added, “I have admired this man from when I first met him. He is the tops in this business and it’s an honor to be associated with him on this recording.”\nThe admiration is reciprocal, notes Fraser, whose prodigious talents are heard on innumerable Jamaican artists’ albums as a musician, arranger, producer, even back-up vocalist. “When I listened to what Mr. Ranglin wrote, it sounded everlasting. I treaded waters that I’m not used to, hoping to reach a level that blends with this rock star; I thank him again for even considering me and making this album possible.”\nTad’s Record founder Tad A. Dawkins, Snr. had long wanted to make an album with Ranglin; the 2020 pandemic lockdowns provided that opportunity. “We knew Ernie was here in Jamaica, so Dean contacted him for us, and it worked out,” explained Tad A. Dawkins Jr., inside Tad’s International Recording Studio in Kingston, Jamaica, where he produced Two Colors with Fraser. “For me, growing up, Ernest Ranglin was a god and in his signature stamp, he gives you ska, reggae, jazz, a little bit of everything.”\nProtecting a near nonagenarian from a virus that has disproportionally impacted the elderly meant stringent precautions had to be taken in Ernie’s recording sessions. “We recorded at two different studios,” explained Fraser. “Mr. Ranglin scored his songs, and I took them to Kingston, recorded them with the other musicians (at Tad’s Studio). With the help of bass player Dale Haslam, who coordinated everything so well for this project, we took those tracks back to the studio in Ocho Rios and Mr. Ranglin played his part. For the songs I wrote, I returned to Ocho Rios then taught Ernie his part. That’s how Two Colors was made.”\nTime hasn’t diminished Ranglin’s nimble, genre-spanning approach. He delivers awe-inspiring staccato riffs on “Lightning From De East.” His buttery chords and fluttering embellishments color the cool jazz meets reggae track “Papa R” and the album’s first single, “De Ranglin,” (featuring a spoken intro by veteran toaster Big Youth). “Rangos” evokes the landmark ska instrumentals of the early 1960s but played at a less frenetic pace. Highlighted by the stylish interplay between Fraser’s syncopated sax work and Ranglin’s fluid fingerboard stylings, “Rangos” premieres here.\nHailing from a family of gifted guitarists, Ranglin showed a precocious interest in the instrument; by age four, he was playing a ukulele given to him by his uncles. Born in 1932 in the inland parish of Manchester, Ranglin moved to Jamaica’s capital, Kingston, and at fourteen he dropped out of school to further his guitar playing, studying instructional books and watching as many musicians as possible. In 1948 he joined Val Bennett’s Orchestra, performing a repertoire of jazz, swing, Broadway show tunes and Caribbean standards. As he gained greater renown, popular Jamaican bandleader Eric Deans recruited Ranglin; following a performance with Deans in Nassau, Bahamas, the father of modern guitar, Les Paul, was so impressed by Ranglin’s abilities that he gave him a guitar and remained a lifelong fan.\nRanglin admits to having been a jazz purist for a time, but due to the negligible financial returns, he ventured into Jamaica’s recording industry in the late 1950s and became one of the most in-demand musicians within Kingston’s studio circuit. As an A&R at Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One, considered Jamaica’s Motown because so many reggae artists started out there, Ranglin created the off-beat skat guitar strum that defines ska and, likely, gave the genre its name. “Back then, we listened to Bill Doggett, Louis Jordan, people who played that rhythm and blues shuffle,” Ranglin recalled. “One night, I sat down with Coxsone, I was playing that same shuffle, but putting more jazz influence into it, trying to make something different and from that, we created that off-beat guitar stroke; the next morning, we went in the studio and recorded the first ska songs.” Ska was the progenitor of Jamaica’s rock steady and reggae; the latter, says Ranglin, resulted from his increasing rock steady’s tempo but making it slower than ska.\nRanglin led the 1963 Studio One session that yielded The Wailers’ first hit “Simmer Down” and he played guitar on the single’s B-side, “It Hurts to Be Alone,” both written by Bob Marley. Marley was so enamored with Ranglin’s talents he later offered him a job for life as his guitar teacher. “Bob really wanted me to travel with him, not as his guitar player, but teaching him how to do arrangements, so he could arrange for his band,” Ranglin stated. “I was touring with Jimmy Cliff at the time, so I had to turn down the job.”\nChris Blackwell featured Ranglin’s playing on one side of the debut album released by his then fledgling Island Records in 1959, Lance Haywood Live at the Half Moon Hotel, Montego Bay. Ranglin was Island’s first A&R; following Blackwell’s suggestion, he moved to London in 1964, where he arranged and played guitar on Millie Small’s “My Boy Lollipop,” produced by Blackwell, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and introduced ska internationally. That same year he began a nine-month residency at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, where his fans included Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton; he was named best jazz guitarist in Melody Makers magazine readers’ poll. Blackwell calls Ranglin “the most important musician to have emerged from Jamaica.”\nFor an astonishing eight decades Ernest Ranglin has brought his incomparable musicianship to countless recordings and the world’s most prestigious stages. He continues to seek new ways to elevate his music and the music of his country. “You aren’t going to cook the same meal every day, you’ll want to do something different to make it more exciting so we can’t keep playing our music the same way,” he says. “I still listen and try to hear something in the playing or the composition that catches me right away, and if I do, I am going to use it.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A medley of seven stirring songs from Les Miserables, one of the most popular and successful West End Musicals of all time. Arranged here for SATB (Soprano/Alto/Tenor/Bass) Choir and Piano, by Ed Lojeski.\nThe rousing chord changes and soaring melodies featured in the songs from Les Miserables are arranged here in one continuous, crowd-pleasing medley. The piece will take the audience on a journey through all the biggest and best tunes from the musical, including I Dreamed A Dream, On My Own and Do You Hear The People Sing?.\nThe brilliantly composed songs from the internationally-acclaimed show are timeless classics, enjoyed by people of all ages and all tastes. Your choir will love singing these songs, with their delightfully uplifting spirit, while your audience will fall in love with the inspirational harmonies and lyrics. The arrangement is not too difficult for most amateur choirs and it allows for a good mix of solo opportunities for those shiver-down-your-spine moments.\nTo bring the spirit of the French Revolution to your SATB choir, this innovative Les Miserables Medley is the perfect combination of awesome melody and enjoyable harmony. An excellent performance piece, you and your audience will love this.\nInstruments - Delivery is FREE within the UK for all instruments. This price you see is the price you pay.\n(Instruments over £100 are always sent by our Express service, regardless of the service selected in the checkout.)\nSheet music, accessories & gifts - We offer 3 services:\n|Brighton||Out of Stock|\n|Chichester||Out of Stock|\nWe are one of the top suppliers of woodwind, brass and orchestral strings across Sussex and are main agents for most of the instruments we sell. We only list instruments we normally carry in stock.\nOur instruments are fully checked and set up through our workshop to ensure perfect playing.\nEasy Modern Organ Music: Anthology: 1-2 Organ\nOrgan Music In Russia: 1\nWinners Galore: Clarinet Part\nSarabande Et Allegro:Clarinet & Piano (Leduc)\nFun And Games With The Treble Recorder (Alto Recorder): Book 2: Tutor Book\n4 Trumpet Tunes: Organ\nEaster Music: Organ: Album\nVoluntary Choice: Book 1: Organ\nProgressive Organist: 1\nWedding Music For Trumpet and Manuals\nWedding Music For Trumpet and Organ\nNew Music For Organ: 1", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Richard and Sylvia performed some songs from The Jesus Story and The Peter Story on Saturday 29 April 2017. This was a concert in aid of Ingoldsby Church. The Group Choir gave a splendid performance of other songs.\nTime to Reflect – Music for an April Evening\nwith Richard and Sylvia Rice-Oxley and The North Beltisloe Group Choir", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Anthemic Pop/Dance music with big lead synths and builds.\nThis song is available in the Dance Energy bundle.\nSubscribe for only $4\nPurchase this track only - $29\nAdd To Cart\nFree music downloads are the main music file only in MP3 format.\nDownloads via the unlimited downloads or single song purchases include all the edits in WAV, MP3 + CCITT format.\ndance, pop, electronic\nNo Copyright Music | Creative Commons Music | Royalty Free Music\nLow cost subscription now live...\nGrab some free music...\nA small update to song listings...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "THE PEOPLE MUST DANCE Start 2022 the right way Friday January 21st at The Aardvark, Fremantle. 8-LATE The Bambuseae Rhythm Section invite you to celebrate the release of their debut EP titled Heliostepper. An expansive and exploratory dive into the mysteries of Space and Love. With a night of fantastic live and local music. Joined by the ever effervescent Beleza Samba crew led by none other than nationally acclaimed percussionist Michael Boase. Be compelled to move to the hypnotic beat of this formidable force of dance. Then be transported into the lofty realms of luscious electro-pop by Boox Kid in band form with heart felt story teller Jared Wall at the helm. Weaving soothing evocative vocals, dreamy synth-pop overtones and grounded grooves to create not just a performance but an immersive and etherial musical experience to sweep you off your feet. We will then be reaching the peak of the crescendo as Bambuseae take the stage with their hard hitting party set in celebration of the release of the Heliostepper EP. A blend of some of their new and seasoned dance tracks. It’s no secret that everyone has deserved the right to dance off the dust of 2021 and Bambuseae would love to do it with you at this very special occasion. Presale - $15+bf Tix on the door $20 Presale link will be uploaded very soon! Music from 8-LATE, bring all yer mates.\nPre-sale $15+bf Door sales $20", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ramblings on politics, technology, culture and poultry.\nWednesday, March 30, 2016\nReview of 'Burlesque'\nUnbelievably, Netflix gave this 4.5 stars. Execrable dialogue, lame and predictable plot, squeaky-clean burlesque club where the healthy and apparently wealthy dancers are all one big happy family...mainly an opportunity for Christina Aguilera to sing and dance with few clothes on.\nI have a soft spot for Cher, though I can no longer remember why. Has she actually ever been in any good films?\nAlmost embarrassed to post this review because it means I'm admitting that I watched the film.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "2016 Upcoming Concerts\n2016-17 NEMPAC Performance Season\nNEMPAC Winter Concert Series\nMarch: Friday, March 24th 2017 at 7:00 p.m.\nBijou de la Vida Gallery, 390 Commercial Street, North End\nApril: Saturday, April 8th 2017\nNEMPAC Student Performathon!\nPlease visit the Performathon page.\nJune 2017 – NEMPAC Opera Project – Beethoven’s “Fidelo”\nVisit http://www.nempacboston.org/tickets/nempac-opera-project for full details.\nPAST 2016-17 Concerts\nInaugural Concert Series 2016-17 Event: MUSIC, FOOD & DANCE\nSteinert Hall, 162 Boylston St, Boston, MA\nHandel’s Part I of “THE MESSIAH”\nFree Holiday Concert and open to the public at St. Stephen’s Church, North End\nReserve tickets here: Messiah Concert Tickets\nThe North End Music and Performing Arts Center presents its 2nd Holiday Concert of Handel’s “Messiah” Part I. The concert, conducted by Kristo Kondakci, will be held in the North End at the St. Stephen’s Church on Wednesday, December 14th at 7:00 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public, with a suggested donation.\nJanuary: Wednesday, January 11th 2017 at 7:00 p.m.\nMartin Luther King Jr Concert: PORTRAIT OF A POWER COUPLE – AN EVENING OF BEETHOVEN AND SCHUBERT\nThrough the all-encompassing journey of Beethoven and Schubert’s Chamber Music, the “NEMPAC Concert Series” January recital will highlight some of the greatest chamber works and lieder of these two composers, including Schubert’s Fantasia in f minor. When Beethoven passed away in 1827, Schubert had the great responsibility of becoming the most revered and respected composer in Vienna. Schubert wrote tributes about Beethoven in letter form and in his musical works. This makes Beethoven and Schubert the power couple of Viennese society for the first half of the nineteenth century. The development of classical and romantic music owes so much to these titans of the musical world.\nSurrounded by visual inspiration in the beautiful and intimate Bijou de la Vida Art Gallery, the North End Concert Series presents this recital with Andrei Baumann, piano and John Nevergall, tenor, and with NEMPAC’s Executive Director Sherri Snow, soprano, and Artistic Director, Christina Wright-Ivanova, piano. A wine and cheese reception, catered by Dare to Taste, will follow this prestigious performance.\nTickets are $25 online and $32 at the door (includes catered reception in a private art gallery). To purchase tickets for this event, please follow the link: Portrait of a Power Couple Tickets\nAndrei Baumann, piano / Christina Wright-Ivanova, piano / Sherri Snow, soprano / John Nevergall, tenor\nValentines Opera Concert: MUSIC AND WORDS OF AMORE\nIn partnership with Opera On Tap Boston\nLa Galleria 33 Restaurant, 125 Salem St, North End\nTickets/Tables are first come, first serve and reservation only. You can purchase tickets on Eventbrite using the link below, OR you can email email@example.com or call 617-227-2270 to complete your reservation and payment offline. For tables over 4 guests – please contact us offline.\nNEMPAC Summer Concerts in the Park 2016\nJuly 7: Old-Timey Classics Jukebox: Songs of the Golden Age of Stage and Screen: (Rain location: St. Stephen’s Church)\nFeaturing singers who have graced the stages of such companies as Boston Lyric Opera, Reagle Music Theatre, and the Lyric Stage Company of Boston. Come vote on what music from Opera to Broadway to Hollywood that you wish to hear!\nListening to Eight to the Bar is a lot like driving along a time-warped highway precisely halfway between Count Basie’s Kansas City and Fats Waller’s Harlem, where the car radio picks up everything from Jumpin’ at the Woodside to The Andrews Sisters. Their material, like their outlandish wardrobes and onstage choreo, is a colorful mix of forties jazz and swing, fifties jump blues, and their own swing-influenced tunes. With their female vocals, saxophone (their sax player, Collin Tilton is the original sax and flute player In Van Morrison’s band, and appears on Morrison’s quadruple-platinum-selling Moondance album), guitar, bass, keyboards and drums, this unique sextet pack a musical and visual wallop not seen in New England since the group’s inception in 1975. Since that time they have released 12 CDs and have excited audiences from Europe to the Caribbean. The band has been named “Best Band 2014” by Hartford Magazine and recently had the honor of touring the Republic of Georgia (near Russia) at the invitation of the U.S. Embassy there. Currently the group has just released its 12th CD, Bring It & Swing It! (rain date / location: Tues July 26th, The Prado)\nJuly 21: Jazz Night with Sounds of Italy: Scanzonati (rain location: St Stephen’s Church)\nSounds of Italy is a musical festival celebrating Italian music excellence in the Greater Boston area. The inventive and contemporary vision of young Italian talents living in the United States blends with the rhythmic and harmonic roots of the Bel Paese, with a clear American jazz influence — a mix that generates a new way of making music. A concept developed by Pescara-native singer and composer Stefano Marchese, Sounds of Italy was made possible with the collaboration and support of big names on the international music scene such as Marco Pignataro, Andrea Pejrolo, and Tino D’Agostino, as well as the Consul General of Italy in Boston, and Bostoniano founder Nicola Orichuia. Since its first edition, more than 200 artists have participated to the past 3 editions, including international artists such as Chiara Civello, Riccardo Del Fra and George Garzone. The audience members will be offered a taste of the elective affinities of the Mediterranean spirit mixed in with the innovative outlook of jazz.\nJuly 28: Traditional Irish Quartet: The Ivy Leaf: (Rain location: St. Stephen’s Church)\nInitially formed by Lindsay Straw (bouzouki, guitar, vocals) as a way to explore her own interest in the interconnected streams of folk music in Ireland, Britain, and America, the Ivy Leaf is now a young stalwart of traditional Irish music in Boston, featuring Caroline O’Shea (flute, whistle, vocals), Armand Aromin (fiddle, whistle), and Dan Accardi (fiddle, concertina). The members’ diverse backgrounds in Berklee College of Music, AllIreland Fleadh Cheoil competitions, and the rich Irish culture of Boston combine to produce a sound that is “vibrant and surefooted, and tailored to fully reveal each tune’s character and personality” (Sean Smith, Boston Irish Reporter). The Ivy Leaf has been featured at prestigious local venues such as Club Passim in Cambridge, the Irish Ceilidh Club of Rhode Island, and the New England Folk Festival.\nAs part of our 15th Anniversary Performance Season, we are excited to continue our July Thursday Night Series supported by NorthEndBoston.com, Boston Parks Dept., I AM Books and the Mayor’s Office of Special Events.\nSeries partners include I AM Books and the Mayor’s Office of Special Events, City of Boston. Stefano Marchese: Series Director.\nPAST Productions / Concerts:\nFriday, February 12th – AMORE, an Evening of American Love Songs\nSt. Stephen’s Church\n401 Hanover Street, Boston MA\nAmore, an evening of American love songs\nFrom Sinatra to Ella to Broadway and more, America’s songbook is rich with such unforgettable tunes as “The Way You Look Tonight”, “Dancing Cheek to Cheek”, “Goodnight, My Someone”, and “That’s Amore”. Join us with your true love for a night of classic songs and fall in love all over again.\nThursday, November 12, 2015\nCalliope Winds Ensemble\nSt. Stephen’s Church\nCalliope Winds presents a program of lively works for woodwind quintet by French, English, and American composers. Be transported back to the warmth and joy of summer with upbeat dances by Bozza and Ligeti and the sultry sounds of Barber’s Summer Music.\nAbout Calliope Winds: A dynamic ensemble formed in 2011, Calliope Winds enthusiastically performs throughout New England in both artistic and educational capacities. They have been featured performers in Jordan Hall’s Chamber Music Gala, were honored to appear in the 2013 Arthur Burger memorial concert, and have performed in masterclass with the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet. Members of Calliope are active in the community and have received fellowships sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, performing throughout Boston Public School systems promoting literature and social development through classical music.\nThursday, September 24, 2015\nLove, Loss and Transformation\nThe North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) is happy to announce their 2016 Inaugural Concert of the 2015-16 Winter Concert Series which will be held on Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. in collaboration with Steinway & Sons at Steinert Hall. Artistic Director of the NEMPAC Winter Concert Series, Christina Wright-Ivanova, has programmed a beautiful concert titled “Love, Loss and Transformation” which will feature musical reflections of Czech and Russian Masters. The intimate performance will include a complimentary pre-concert wine and cheese reception. NEMPAC is looking forward to announcing their upcoming 2016 Performance Season at this event.\nNEMPAC is eager to welcome the return of Italian Cellist, Francesco Mastromatteo who delivered such an inspiring evening last October 2014 titled “From Russian to Italy”. Mr. Mastromatteo’s delivered sheer emotion to the audience through his performance and also inticed the audience sharing knowledge about the composers and repertoire. Italian violinist, Andrea Segar, joins us for her first performance with NEMPAC.\nNEMPAC Summer Concert Series 2015\nNEMPAC is partnering once again with the Mayor’s Office of Special Events this summer season to bring this exciting music program to Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park and it is FREE to the community. The series is being generously supported by many exceptional sponsors. Audiences can look forward to an appealing array of music genres and NEMPAC Faculty, Artistic Directors, and Friends Thursday nights at 7:00 p.m.\nThe concert series kicks off July 9th with “Songs in the Key of Broadway: A musical timeline of 42nd Street”. It will take the audience from the earliest moments of musical theatre to the blockbuster productions of today. From Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Rodgers & Hammerstein to Sondheim, Lloyd Webber, and Schwartz, it is a celebration of comedy and love with some of America’s most beloved tunes. Performers include NEMPAC favorites Lindsay Conrad and Christian Schwebler, and welcoming Reagle Music Theatre star, Lori L’Italien.\nNEMPAC Summer Concert Line-Up at the Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park\nJuly 9th – Songs in the Key of Broadway; A musical timeline of 42nd Street\nJuly 16th – Patrice Williamson Jazz Quartet\nJuly 23rd – NEMPAC Opera Project; Featuring Italian Opera Favorites\nJuly 30th – Eight to the Bar! …And for those interested in getting their groove on, there will be a pre-concert group Swing Dance Lesson in the Park from 6:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The swing dance lesson is appropriate for all ages and is being taught by the Boston Lindy Bomb Squad Dancers & Instructors. Gather at the front of the stage to participate!\nEnjoy a Picnic Dinner Too!\nNEMPAC has teamed up with RSVPicnic to provide the ultimate Thursday night experience. Picnic dinners can be purchased online and RSVPicnic team members will drop off and pick up the baskets at the park – Look for the Red Wagon!\nNOTE: In the event of rain, the July 9th, 16th, and 23rd concert performances will take place at St. Stephen’s Church on Hanover Street in the North End. The July 30th performance would be rescheduled to Thursday, August 6th.\nVisit www.nempacboston.org for more information.\nPAST Productions / Concerts in 2014-15 include:\n“Amore” Opera Concert\nSaturday, February 28th at 7:30 p.m.\nOld North Church, 193 Salem Street, Boston’s North End\nMeet the Amore Performers > Amore Valentine Opera Concert Performers\nAmore, l’amour, Liebe, love… Transcending love in all languages through music.\nWhile Mother Nature may have led to a postponement of its original performance date, the Amore Opera Concert was well worth the wait! The audience was treated to a magnificent array of love songs from Monteverdi to Puccini to Rodgers & Hammerstein. The performances were powerful with emotionally charged perspectives that touched everyone’s heart.\nA lovely reception was held after the concert for all to mingle with the cast of performers, Alexandra Dietrich (Musical Director), Sherri Snow, Rebecca Rapoport-Cole, Christian Schwebler, Salvatore Atti and Jacquelyn Atti.\nSpecial Thanks to the Old North Church and Bova’s Bakery for playing such an important part in a splendid evening.\nAmerican Music Concert in honor of Martin Luther King Day\nThursday, January 16th 2015 – 7:30 P.M.\nNorth Bennet Street School – 150 North Street, Boston’s North End\nMeet the Performers > I Have A Dream Performers\nOn a bitter cold night, familiar and new friends of NEMPAC ventured out to experience a powerfully moving concert at the North Bennet Street School entitled “I Have a Dream…” in celebration of Martin Luther King Day. Artistic Director Christina Wright-Ivanova, pianist, was joined by four exceptional artists, Stephen Marotto, cello; Jessica Nicolet, soprano; Kristin Young, soprano; and Sarah Ryu-Ping, violin. Sarah is a member of NEMPAC’s faculty.\nHoliday Concert at the Old North Church\nSunday, December 14th 2014 at 5:00 p.m.\nDr. Libor Dudas directed an inspirational performance on Sunday, December 14th, with the Old North Church Chamber Singers and Orchestra joined by NEMPAC vocalists. They presented “Behold, I Bring You Glad Tidings” (Henry Purcell-1687) and “Gloria” (Baldassare Galuppi – 1761). This was an outstanding holiday treat!!\nNEMPAC welcomed musicians, Italian Cellist Dr. Francesco Mastromatteo and Boston University Pianist, Dr. Christina Wright-Ivanova, to the North End of Boston for this special performance at St. Stephen’s Church in the North End. It was a celebration of Italian Heritage Month. The concert was free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $10-$15.\nDr. Mastromatteo joined us from Lucera, Italy, where he is the artistic director of The Concert Society “Amici della Musica G. Paisiello” of Lucera (Foggia), which was founded in 1984 to divulgate classical music, to promote young musical talents, particularly from Puglia, and to open the city of Lucera to an international artistic landscape. More information can be found here: http://www.amicimusicapaisiello.com/", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "When: Thu., May 9, 9 p.m. 2013\nWhether performing as a member of PANTyRAiD, or through solo performances as MartyParty, Martin Folb brings in a fresh breath through the EDM community as his musically diverse, all-original live shows that have been widely regarded as some of the best in the business. The South African-born Brooklyn native has been storming festivals and clubs through North America with his original style of seductive and melodic bass that crosses over the genres of hip hop, trap, dubstep, and EDM. The result is an amusement park ride through a symphonic purple odyssey that explodes into a one-of-a-kind live experience.\nSan Francisco-based Noah D is an electronic music composer and enigmatic and saturated live performer. A producer's producer, his heavy and hypnotic bass music is preceded by an expectation of the uncommon mastery that comes with over 10 years production experience. While his work can deliver aggressive and substantial tracks, the sound avoids the overt focus on noise that characterizes the harder bass music genres. An expert at slipping from the hard to the smooth and sexy, Noah D carries a history of drum & bass, hip hop, live guitar, and West Coast bass music into the present.\nPrice: $18 advance", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "taehoon님의 아이디어 더 보기\nBig Daddy’s Chicks Productions Edit Suite\nIs there room for a music studio?\nGame Desk: Ditch the keyboard and now we're talking. Got to love the built in fridge.\nInspiring Home Recording Studio Design: Home Recording Studio Design Idea For Cool Music Room Design ~ dropddesign.com Decorating Inspiration\nCustom High Contrast Audio / Music Studio Production by Monkwood\nChromopop Studio by John Brownlow, via Flickr\n48 Windows Music & Mix Console designed by Fahrenheit Studio. This was one of the very first all digital recording studios.\nKarma Sound Studio Vocal Booth\n자바스크립트를 활성화하지 않으면 작동하지 않습니다.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "How tall is Nicole Scherzinger?\nNicole Scherzinger is an American singer, songwriter, actor, actress and TV personality (born Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente June 29, 1978). Born in Honolularu, Hawaii, she was born in Louisville, Kentucky and started playing at Clark AB at the high school, studying at Wright State University before leaving for a musical career with Days of the New and with Popstars, a rock band from American rock. Sherzinger is popular as Pussycat Doll's leading singer and has released PCD (2005) and Doll Domination (2008), the albums of which have become one of the best-selling girls ever.\nimage credits: gstatic.com", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tuesday, 9 October 2012\n@CarlaThomas74 - Sunshine #neosoul #uk #soul\nLondon based neo-soul singer Carla Thomas readies her debut EP, with a brand new track entitled “Sunshine”, which is now available to listen to on YouTube.\nThe former backing singer for soul legend Alexander O’Neal, is also preparing a tour to accompany the release in 2013.\nBorn and raised in Leicester, Carla’s interests for the arts started at an early age of 3 years old. Ballet, Contemporary Dance, Jazz tap and Drama continued right through to her teenage years. As you kno when it comes to neo soul music i dont play this is one lady u need to look out for Carla Thomas Tha General salutes you listen to the song below", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Our music lesson students will have the opportunity to take lessons from the comfort of their own home or in one of the teachers studios. Careful attention is placed on each student to ensure a custom lesson plan. Our music teachers understand that every student has different needs and abilities and therefore the lessons will be planned with that knowledge in mind.\nlessons are available in the following areas:\nInstruments: Piano, Voice, Trumpet\nSeems I've always been a teacher, even when I didn't realize it; from my school days as first chair helping other students, through college where I taught for the Southern Nevada School of Music and at Vesleys Music Conservatory, through the time I received my first certified public school teaching position and after that as a business owner with employees, I have been teaching and learning. Currently I teach Instrumental, Vocal music and Speech/Drama in Oklahoma as a certified classroom teacher. I have produced State Speech Champions and a vocal student who received the coveted Red Card to appear on The VOICE tv show. I believe the forestated exemplifies my passion for teaching and having young people do more than they might think.\nInstruments: Piano, Guitar, Voice, Violin, Cello, Viola, Trumpet, Trombone, Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet, Drums, Recorder, Euphonium, French Horn, Tuba, Mallet Percussion, Bassoon, Keyboard, Acoustic Guitar\nI have 7 years of public and charter school: General Music, Band, and Choir teaching experience. In both Texas and Oklahoma. I started private teaching in 97 for a studio where I taught Group Piano, Group Voice, private Voice, piano, clarinet, saxophone and trumpet. I went to another studio and taught the same group. I then started my own studio mainly teaching piano and voice. I have since add Violin, Cello, French Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Guitar, Bassoon, Clarinet, Flute and Saxophone to my lesson offering. I am a certified Teacher for All Levels Vocal and Instrumental Music from Pre-K to 12th grade in the State of Texas and Oklahoma. I have played French Horn for 26 years, Piano self taught from age 5, currently am a pianist for a local church. I am a member of a community choir and active receive continued vocal training.\nMy teaching experience includes working with children at St. Paul United Methodist Church and The Learning Tree Daycare in Muskogee, Oklahoma. More recently I was a teaching assistant at the University of Arizona where I held my own studio of undergraduate voice majors as well as teaching a voice class for students with no previous musical experience. In addition to my teaching experience, I have performed in many opera and musical theatre productions (Cimarron Opera, The International Summer Music Institute, Muskogee Little Theatre) as well as professional choirs.\nInstruments: Piano, Voice\nMy teaching experience began at the University of Tulsa. I taught voice to a few students who were non music majors for about a year. After graduating from the University of Tulsa, I began teaching at Brook Fine Arts Academy in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I taught over 30 students a week in both voice and piano (ages 3 to 20) for over a year. In my work as a teacher, I have helped students prepare for school competitions, studio recitals, talent shows, solo and ensemble contest, and musical auditions. I also taught both theory and ear training skills to my piano students. I enjoy teaching because it's wonderful to help students gain confidence not only in their musical abilities but in themselves as an individual. My job as a teacher is to help motivate my students but above all help them have fun in the process.\nAs a soloist, I have performed in operas and opera scenes at the University of Tulsa and the University of Oklahoma. I have been a payed performer for Tulsa Opera Chorus and Tulsa Oratorio Chorus. I have been in church music for the past 7 years, and am currently the director of music and organist at First Christian Church in Moore, Oklahoma. I love teaching voice to all age groups!\nDon't just take our word for it. We hold the highest possible A+ rating from the nations foremost online reliability source: The BBB. Check out our A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau.\nSelect all the days/times the student would be available to start lessons. Selecting \"3pm - 7pm\" means the student can start as early as 3pm or start as late as 7pm. It is important that you select as many days and the widest window of start times for each day as possible. That will help us make a match with one of our teachers.Ok\nAre you sure that's your only availability? The more availability you easier it will be to arrange a teacher for you.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Before she was Tina Turner, she was Anna Mae Bullock, a 17-year-old Sumner student who gigged around St. Louis and East St. Louis.\nby Amanda Woytus\nMay 24, 2023\nTina Turner, the Queen of Rock and Roll known for her powerful vocals in “Proud Mary,” her bestselling album Private Dancer, and her fringe dresses—and lesser known for her time living in St. Louis—is dead at age 83. The news was confirmed on her official Facebook page.\n“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tina Turner,” the statement began. “With her music and her boundless passion for life, she enchanted millions of fans around the world and inspired the stars of tomorrow. Today we say goodbye to a dear friend who leaves us all her greatest work: her music. All our heartfelt compassion goes out to her family. Tina, we will miss you dearly.”\nTurner, who was a Swiss citizen, died in her home near Zurich after a long illness, her manager told the Associated Press.\nBorn Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, Turner was for a time a student at Sumner High School in St. Louis, having moved to the city at age 16. In a statement released Wednesday, Saint Louis Public Schools wrote: “It brings pride to all of us at SLPS who get to claim her as ‘one of ours.’ While most of us never had the opportunity to meet her, we all feel as if we know her a little bit. Her music has been a soundtrack for our lives.”\nIt was at St. Louis’ Club D’Lisa where Turner first performed with Ike Turner, whom she later married and sang with as part of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. The couple gigged around St. Louis and East St. Louis at venues such as George Edick’s Club Imperial. But Ike abused her, and when she divorced him, in 1978, it didn’t hamper her career. Instead, she rocketed toward superstardom with her 1984 album Private Dancer. A track off that album, “What’s Love Got To Do With It,” perhaps her best-known song, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.\nIn 2021, St. Louis Magazine wrote about some of Sumner’s most famous former students including Turner:\nAnna Mae Bullock, a 17-year-old Sumner student, is out with her sister Alline at Club D’Lisa. It’s 1956, Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm is the hottest band around, and everyone is jockeying for a chance to get onstage and sing with Turner. Turner brings on Pat, a classmate of Anna Mae’s. Pat is younger than Anna Mae and, in Anna Mae’s opinion, she can’t carry a tune.\nAnna Mae is the young woman Turner will eventually christen with the stage name Tina Turner. The rest of the world will nickname her the Queen of Rock and Roll. The pair will find success with their band, the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. In their hit cover of “Proud Mary,” Tina’s voice is so fiery in the second half of the song that it nearly combusts. She’s singing about a woman leaving the everyday behind for a riverboat adventure on the Mississippi—freedom from working for The Man night and day. And after divorcing Ike, Tina will propel herself to superstardom with her 1984 album Private Dancer.\nAnna Mae cut her vocal chops in Nutbush, Tennessee, singing “Amazing Grace” at the Spring Hill Baptist Church or whatever song Bootsy Whitelaw played on the trombone during their summertime picnics. “I was just a little girl, little Anna Mae, and I’d shout, ‘Come on, everybody, sing with Mr. Bootsy,’” Turner writes in her autobiography, I, Tina. Later, in Knoxville, Anna Mae’s mother will take her shopping, and the girl will perform for the sales ladies and customers. The quarters they give her will go into a big glass bank—her first paid gigs. But Anna Mae longs for glamour, music beyond singing along with the radio, or in church, or with Mr. Bootsy.\nAnna Mae has asked Alline to tell her boyfriend, the Kings of Rhythm drummer, to give her a shot. Turner hasn’t called her, but one night, it’s intermission, and he’s alone onstage. He starts playing B.B. King’s “You Know I Love You” on the organ. Anna Mae knows the words. She seizes the opportunity—and the mic.\nDarling, you know I love you, I love you for myself\nTurner runs off the stage to pick her up.\nIn her autobiography, she writes, “It was the first time I ever felt like a star.”\nThe HBO documentary Tina, which premiered that same year, offered a look at Turner’s time in St. Louis, singing on the weekends with Ike and attending classes at Sumner during the week.\nIn 1991, Turner was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She won eight Grammy awards throughout her career and has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. The star’s location is 6378 Delmar.\nIn November, the Fox is scheduled to stage Tina—The Tina Turner Musical.\nFrom 2018–2023, Amanda was St. Louis Magazine’s deputy editor, covering news and culture.\nMay 24, 2023\nP.O. BOX 191606\nSt. Louis, MO 63119\nCopyright 2023 SLM Media Group. All rights reserved.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rap Legend Chuck D Sells Major Share Of Public Enemy's Music Catalog To Reach Music Publishing\nChuck relinquished over 300 songs from PE's catalog, including hits like “Welcome To The Terrordome,” “You’re Gonna Get Yours,” and “9-1-1 Is A Joke.”\nChuck D Set To Debut Hip Hop Docuseries With PBS.\nThe four-part docuseries is set to premiere in Jan. 2023\nMichelle Obama Drops Official Election Day Playlist\nThe playlist includes Public Enemy and Queen Latifah.\nBiz Markie Illness: Rap Stars Including Fat Joe, Missy Elliot, Chuck D And More Send Up Prayers\nThe rap icon is reportedly seriously ill.\nChuck D Says Older Politicians Should Make Way For Younger Generation\nPublic Enemy founder says young people should take the lead.\nFlavor Flav Denies Hoax Claims From Chuck D After Their Public Fallout\n“There are more serious things in the world right now...”\nFlavor Flav Responds To Chuck D: ‘You Wanna Destroy Something We’ve Built Over 35 Years Over Politics?’\n“...there is no Public Enemy without Flavor Flav.”\nIsaac Hayes, Public Enemy And More To Receive Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award\nLegends are being honored for their contributions to music.\nChuck D Is Suing A Publishing Company For Copyrights To 28 Of Public Enemy’s Songs\nHe is suing for full ownership to his music.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|Software Music Machine Archive||\nRecording, Mac, Demo\n|Recording - Basic audio recording software that records a single track at a time, in a similar way to a basic cassette recorder. Software for recording audio that is already playing on your computer such as streaming audio can be found in the Audio & Video Capture category. Note - you will need an Audio Interface to record audio onto your computer.|\nOnly listings tagged with:\n|Ableton Live v9.6.2b5|| |\nCompose, record, remix, improvise and edit your musical ideas. Works with the Ableton Push Controller [Hosts VST Plugins]\n|Ableton Suite 8.4.1|\nGives you all of the features in Live 8 plus SOUND, with a new Library packed with beautiful new sounds and a wealth of useful resources. [Hosts VST Plugins]\n|Adobe Audition CS6|\nAdobe Audition is an audio editing platform that allows mixing, editing and effects processing.\n|Audiodia v1.0.7|| |\nReal-time sound processing app with recording capabilities.\n|BIAS Peak LE 6|\nEntry level audio editing, processing, and CD burning.\n|Cubase v8.5|| |\nConverges \"extraordinary\" sound quality, intuitive handling and a vast range of highly advanced audio and MIDI tools for composition, recording, editing and mixing. [Hosts VST Plugins]\n|Metacorder v1.0|| |\nOpen Architecture Mac OSX Based Field Recorder\nMixPad is a program that lets you import audio or record multiple tracks, then mix tracks for your music projects.\n|OnAirRecorder v3.1|| |\nDigital timer, provides ability to control audio/video recording.\n|OneShot Recorder v2.0|| |\nRecord/sample, normalize, reorder, detect MIDI note and save/export your audio stream automatically. [VST]\n|Propellerhead Record 1.5.1|\nCombines \"effortless recording\" and a \"stunning software mixer console\" with a \"limitless rack of audio processing gear that builds itself or can be infinitely customized\"\n|Pure Vinyl v3.1.1a|| |\nHigh quality digital transcription and playback of vinyl LP records.\n|QuickVoice v2.0.4|| |\nThis is a feature-rich personal voice recorder and voice email program for OSX\n|Sound Studio 4.8|| |\nAudio recording and editing tool with automators.\n|Source-Connect v3.7|| |\nSource-Connect is a program enables audio connections between digital audio systems anywhere in the world.[VST]\n|Studio One v3.2.2|| |\nMusic creation and production application that makes audio recording, MIDI sequencing, and audio mastering simple right out of the box, yet provides a wealth of professional features. [Hosts VST Plugins]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Meet some of our Cirencester Flute Teachers\nThis is the best way to locate Cirencester flute teachers in the UK, helping you discover Cirencester flute tuition close to home and Cirencester tutors to assist with any instrument such as piano or . We can help you find Cirencester flute tuition or a one-to-one Cirencester flute tutor to prepare for flute grades and develop your flute skills! We order Cirencester flute teachers near you by their hourly charges and distance from you.\nIf you are a flute teacher and would like to offer flute lessons in Cirencester or throughout the UK, please register with First Tutors: Music or find out more about us here. Becoming a Cirencester flute teacher is a fantastic way to improve your own knowledge through giving flute tuition while assisting others, all in the Cirencester area!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If you want to find songs about Susan, you are at the right place. Here you will find lyrics of popular songs about this woman. There are several versions of these songs – from Buddy Holly’s “Susie Q” to Linda Laurie’s “Say At Home Sue.” If you enjoy ragtime, you will also love “Susan Miller Rag.”\nDean Martin’s “Suzanne”\n“Suzanne” is an all-time favorite, and one of Dean Martin’s greatest hits. It tells the story of an actress whose career took off, but who was roasted by her peers for being too cool. But the story doesn’t end there. It continues as the actress battles peer pressure to stay in the public eye.\nThe story of “Suzanne” has become one of the most enduring love stories ever told. It is the most famous love story of all time, and Dean Martin’s “Suzanne” has made the world’s hearts melt. She is survived by her beloved husband Patrick Carnes, brother Charlie Jacobson, and children Dean Martin Jr. and Stefanie Carnes. Her grandchildren Cassia and Dan Anderson also survive her. She received her MFA from Arizona State University and worked as a sculptor.\nDean Martin’s “Runaround Sue”\nThe song “Runaround Sue” is a doo-wop pop song that was a US No. 1 hit for Dion in 1961. It became one of Dion’s most popular songs and was included in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. The lyrics were written by Dion and Ernie Maresca and tell the story of a disloyal lover.\nThe song’s original version was by Dean Martin. The song was covered by many popular artists over the years, including Elvis Presley, Freddie Mercury, and Dean and Linda Ronstadt. In the show, a piano is played in the background. It is often played during a jazz concert or other event.\nLinda Laurie’s “Say At Home Sue”\nLinda Laurie’s “Say At home Sue” is a hit from the early 1960s. Written by Dion DiMucci and Ernie Maresca, ‘I’m No Runaround Sue’ was released by Ginger and the Snaps in 1961 and ‘Say At Home Sue’ was released by Linda Laurie the following year. Both songs have been covered by many artists.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "New Year’s Eve Toast with Rachmaninoff’s Vespers\n(New York, NY)—On December 31 at 6:00 PM EST, The Clarion Choir will ring in the new year by hosting a virtual New Year’s Eve Toast with selections from Rachmaninoff’s Vespers. Clarion’s annual performances of Russian sacred music have garnered critical praise and also become a fixture for Classical music lovers on New Year’s Eve and Day. While we cannot celebrate together in person this year, we invite music lovers to join Clarion for a short online event featuring filmed performances from The Clarion Choir’s recording sessions of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers in January of 2020, and to toast the New Year with us!\nClarion’s New Year’s Eve Toast and Rachmaninoff Vespers Preview will be streamed on our website here.\nOne of the country’s leading professional vocal ensembles, The Clarion Choir has performed on some of the greatest stages of North America and Europe. Their recent recording of Kastalsky’s Requiem reached #1 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Charts, and has been nominated for a 2021 GRAMMY for Best Choral Performance. The Clarion Choir made their Lincoln Center debut in 2011, performing Bach Chorales as part of the White Light Festival with organist Paul Jacobs. In 2014, the choir gave the New York premiere of Passion Week by Maximilian Steinberg, and, in October of 2016, premiered this same work in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and London. Their performance of the work was featured on PBS, and their recording of it, the Choir’s debut recording, received a GRAMMY nomination, as well as a nomination for BBC Music Magazine’s Choral Award. The Choir’s second recording, the world premiere recording of Alexander Kastalsky’s Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes, also was nominated for a GRAMMY for Best Choral Performance. The Clarion Choir has performed regularly in recent years as part of the MetLiveArts series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; including performances of large-scale Renaissance works by Victoria, Palestrina, Tavener and Guerrero in the Medieval Sculpture Hall and the Met Cloisters. The Choir, and artistic director Steven Fox, have collaborated in recent years with renowned artists such as Harry Bicket and The English Concert, Eric Jacobsen and The Knights, Susan Graham, Leonard Slatkin and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and Madonna at the 2018 Met Gala.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A PV preview for Morning Musume’s 45th single titled Maji Desu ka Ska! has been released.\nThe preview is only about a minute and a half long but despite it being short I really love the way it looks so far since it has a simple but fun theme that matches the song, great choreography, and a great dance shot background made up of giant letters with the title of the song, and even though some fans might say that it is a bit too simple I think this is a great first PV for the 9th generation.\nThe PV only features about 3 shots so far: the solo close-up shots, the dance shot with the giant title, and solo shots of each member in front of the title (for example, Kanon smiling at the camera through the “Ma” symbol), and so far it seems to be somewhat simple since the close-up shots are all basically the same with just a different colored background for each member, although it is a great way for each member to be in the spotlight during their lines.\nThe dance shot is the main shot of the PV since we get to see quite a bit of the choreography, and even though I don’t concentrate that much on dances while I watch most PVs I was impressed with the many moves that each member did, such as the line dance during the chorus or Ai’s spinning before Reina’s lines, since it matches the fun and cute style of the song perfectly.\nThe last type of shot we got to see were of the 9th generation members playing around the title of the song, and I really liked them since they were a pretty creative and nice way of showing off the fun sound of the song while giving the PV some variety.\nThe PV seems to be more simple than other previous releases and as a result it might not be liked by some fans, but I really enjoyed the PV since it does a fantastic job of matching the happy beat of the song along with a creative dance, setting, and shots of all of the members while giving each member a chance to shine in the solo shots and dance shots.\nI love the PV so far and I really look forward to seeing the rest of the PV soon (which should be in the next few days), so hopefully we get the full PV soon since this PV is a great release for the 9th generation.\nLike always I suggest everyone watch it as soon as possible since there is always a possibility it might be taken down.\nThe release date is set for 3/23.\nsource from sayunii + tokyohive", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hip hop artist Aesop Rock is set to release a new album, Skelethon, this July. After a hiatus of five years, Aesop Rock has finally returned to the recording studio. As a preview for the much awaited album, Aesop Rock has released the album’s first single “Zero Dark Thirty.”\nYou can stream “Zero Dark Thirty” on Stereogum. The song quintessentially represents the vintage Aesop sound with its disorienting, dizzying sound.\nPhoto Credit: Raymond Flotat\nAesop Rock, a.k.a Ian Matthias Bavitz, has been making music since the 90s and has played in bands such as The Weathermen, Hail Mary Mallon, and Two Of Every Animal. Aesop is known for his abstract and complicated lyrics, making the listener work very hard to grasp the meaning. Skelethon will mark his sixth album, which accompanies three EPs and multiple collaborations.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Largely thanks to asinine reality shows, little ones now-a-days want to grow up and be \"famous\" as if that's an actual occupation. Today, thanks to state-by-state budget cuts, music education is swiftly disappearing - down about 20 percent considering that 2001, according to MENC (the National Association for Music Education).\nIn post-production now, the film is scheduled to hit the film festival circuit in 2014 - hopefully in time to inform our next national debate about budget cuts, education, and the fate of millions of kids wheels on the bus who never even know what they are missing in music class, square dancing or not.\nFrom the initial one particular that teaches counting and parts of the physique with songs via an strategy that young children enjoy to later ones that progress such as her Play and Understand Chinese with Mei Mei exactly where an actual Chinese Kindergarten is visited.\nThis is the band that recorded \"James Taylor(Live)\" in a rehearsal setting on Martha's Vineyard, and is probably the only reside video available of the greatly missed Don Grolnick (playing in James' band).\nIn the early 1990s, songwriter , record producer , and performer Bobby Susser , emerged strongly with his effortless-to-discover, award winning young children's songs and series, Bobby Susser Songs For Children that exemplified the use of children's music to educate young kids in schools and at property 4 Musical duo Greg & Steve have focused on the constructive reaction youngsters have to music.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hamada Takasi Plays 'Roberto Clemente' & Other Rag[CD]\nForewords; This is an album of the ragtime for guitar, same as my previous work 'Climax Rag' (1999). I love ragtime by David Thomas Roberts for several years, and I chose 4 of his works. 'Roberto Clemente' is a masterpiece of modern ragtime. I enjoyed playing rags by Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb, James Scott, great ragtime composers, as well Blind Blake, king of ragtime blues guitarists, and my favorite traditional 'Just A Closer Walk'. I also played my 3 originals. 'Fuku-Fuku Rag' is dedicated to a restaurant which was in Otaru and now closed. 'Sikuzusi' is the place name in Otaru, and this tune is an appendix of my another album 'Akaiwa Suite' (2003). 'Jacky Rag' is dedicated to 'Jack In The Box', a restarurant in Sapporo. I hope you enjoy this album. 1. Roberto Clemente (David Thomas Roberts) David Thomas Roberts is the leading composer of today's Neo-Romantic music, including new ragtime. This well-known masterpiece of new ragtime was composed in 1979, and it's title is taken from the name of legendary right-fielder of the Pittsburgh Pirates. 2. Waterloo Girls (David Thomas Roberts) Composed in 1980. Perhaps all ragtime fans will be very happy to hear it! It is a beautiful example of his side of optimism. 3. The Girl Who Moved Away (David Thomas Roberts) Composed in 1981-82. Heart-warming and very romantic composition. It is very melodious work, so it was easy for me to imagine it arranged for the guitar. 4. Pinelands Memoir (David Thomas Roberts) Composed in 1978. It is his early masterpiece, combining quite unique latin elements into folk ragtime. I did my best efforts to arrange it for the guitar, and managed to do it. 5. Paragon Rag (Scott Joplin) Scott Joplin (1868-1917) is king of ragtime and the composer of 'Maple Leaf Rag'. 'Paragon Rag' is composed in 1909. Left-hand part of the original C part is the monotonic chord, though I simplified it into single bass line. 6. Pine Apple Rag (Scott Joplin) Composed in 1908. I think it is Joplin's masterpiece of all of his late rags. Ton Van Bergeyk recorded his arrangement on Kicking Mule Records in 1970s. 7. The Alaskan Rag (Joseph Lamb) Joseph F. Lamb (1887-1960) is also the great ragtime composer. He composed many beautiful ragtime, including 'Sensation', 'American Beauty' etc. 'The Alaskan Rag' is composed in 1959. A masterpiece of his late rags. 8. Ragtime Bobolink (Joseph Lamb) It is from the sheet book 'Ragtime Treasures' (1964, posthumous). It's beautiful melodies remind me Romantic chamber music. 9. Great Scott Rag (James Scott) Another king of ragtime, James Scott (1886-1938) composed many optimistic ragtime, such as 'Frog Legs Rag', 'Climax Rag' etc. 'Great Scott Rag' is composed in 1909. My arrangement of it is fingerbreaking work! 10. West Coast Blues (Blind Blake) Authur 'Blind' Blake (1895?-1932) is the foremost guitarist of the ragtime blues. This is one of his famous guitar rags. My arragement is in my original Otarunay tuning, 'EbAbCFCEb'. 11. Sikuzusi (Takashi Hamada) I have composed several ragtime-based compositions by solo guitar. On this CD you can hear my 3 originals. 'Sikuzusi' [place at the foot of the cliff] is the ancient place name in Ainu, indigenous people in Hokkaido, Japan. Composed in 2004. 12. Fuku Fuku Rag (Takashi Hamada) Composed in 2003. Relatively authentic classic rag. It is dedicated to a restaurant which was in Otaru and now closed. 13. Jacky Rag (Takashi Hamada) Composed in 1997. Very optimistic rag. Too many notes to play! 14. Just A Closer Walk With Thee (Traditional) My favorite Gospel tune. I heard it firstly on the album 'Jazz at Vespers / George Lewis'. --------------- Profile of HAMADA, Takasi (same as Takashi, his first name. HAMADA is his family name.) HAMADA was born in Otaru City, Hokkaido Island, Japan on December 11, 1964. He is all-time guitarist playing on the street, his own live concert, or playing at restaurant as BGM. And until now, he has composed over 40 classic rag style tunes and several ragtime influenced tunes for guitar. He loves modern ragtime too, such as David Thomas Roberts, Jack Rummel, Tom Shea, Tom McDermott etc. In Japan, few people knows about them, and he hopes that they become more popular in Japan. He is Japanese, but he is also an editor of 'Ainu-Times', which is a quaterly newspaper writing in Ainu language. His Guitar Tuning; His guitar style is quite unique. He can play in standard tuning, but more often plays in 'Otarunay-Tuning' (EbAbCFCEb : 6 to 1). Using this tuning, he can always play the alternative bass, and can easily play ragtime in Ab key. It fits to arrange piano rags for the guitar, and when he plays classic rags, it is always used. Also it is very helpful to avoid Russian sailor saying 'please let me play your guitar!'\nYou May Also Like\nPage 1 of", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lonnie Liston Smith - Interview\nGilles is joined by the godfather of Jazz Funk, keyboard wizard and musical innovator, Lonnie Liston Smith, who's performed alongside greats such as Pharoah Sanders, John Coltrane and Sun Ra during a remarkable career spanning 6 decades.\nHis techniques and genre-blending performances, released on the legendary Flying Dutchman Records in the 1970s, contributed to the emergence of a distinct Jazz-Funk movement within UK club culture.\nAvailable since: Sat 16 Mar 2013\nThis clip is from\nGilles is joined by the godfather of jazz funk, Lonnie Liston Smith.\nFirst broadcast: 16 Mar 2013\nWatch and listen to the very best music moments brought to you from BBC 6 Music.\nMore clips from Gilles Peterson\n- 'Games' by Rosie Lowe - live exclusive track recorded for Gilles Peterson Duration: 03:03 Rosie Lowe in session\n- Seun Kuti in Conversation with Gilles Peterson Duration: 30:08 Seun Kuti\n- Omar live in session and in conversation with Gilles Peterson Duration: 29:00 Omar Live In Session\n- Omar performs 'Nothing Like This' for Gilles Peterson. Duration: 05:42 Omar Live In Session\n- Blludd Relations In Conversation Duration: 32:01 Bluudd Relations join The Secret Waltz Club", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "BROWSE BY CATEGORY\nBROWSE LYRICS BY\n- Song Title\n- Movie Name\n- Music Director\nPunjabi Hit Squad is a Hindi bollywood Movie which is The Punjabi Hit Squad casts are which is leading Main Role in the Punjabi Hit Squad Movie. Punjabi Hit Squad has been shot in . The Punjabi Hit Squad Releas Date was January 01, 1900 in India. Total 2 Songs is available in this Movie and the most popular song of Punjabi Hit Squad Movie is \"Hai Hai\" Which is sing by Punjabi Hit Squad.\n|Release Date||January 01, 1900|\n|View Full Cast & Crew ||\nTotal 2 lyrics is available of Punjabi Hit Squad Movie. to read a particular song lyrics of this Movie please click on the song title listed in this section below.\n|Hai Hai||Punjabi Hit Squad|\n|Hai Hai Nee Legeya Sada Dil Mirja||Punjabi Hit Squad|", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "“WO! Na My Jam Be Dat” – Wizkid Reveals His Love For Olamide’s Wo! Song\nNigerian superstar singer, Wizkid is definitely one of Africa’s biggest names in music today.\nThe singer took to his Instagram page to show his support for Olamide’s new song titled ‘Wo!’, a song which has since gone viral.\nWizkid went ahead to reveal that he enjoys the song so much.\nSee his post via twitter below:\nOlamide – Wo.🔥 na my Jam be dat🔊 chicken peri peri😂😂🚀🚀\n— Wizkid (@wizkidayo) August 20, 2017", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Cingular subscribers have the ability to tune in live to a Rolling Stones concert taking place in Paris later this afternoon. A startup named Listen Live Now is using the performance (which starts at 3PM ET) to launch its live pay-for-play tech. $1.99 will net 7 minutes of the live show. There are no downloads required, audio is delivered through a phone call that you receive from Listen Live Now.\nBusiness Week reports:\nThe clarity depends, in part, on the quality of your phone's speakers. But the call isn't to some Stones groupie holding up a phone from the bleachers. This connection goes straight to the band's mixing board.\nLook for the same tech to be used for other concerts and events in the new future. To catch some of the Stones, dial #106 and hit send.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "‘Progressive Steps to Syncopation For The Modern Drummer’ – snappy title eh? When I first came across this book some 12 years ago I was non-plussed; it appeared to me the most boring book in the world. And by itself it is. Page after page of single line rhythms leading nowhere and with no orchestration. However in recent years, I’ve discovered that this book is a veritable treasure trove for the serious drummer be they beginner or advanced players. Over years of study, this book has helped develop my:\n- Single and double bass drumming\nSo how can this humble book develop all these skills? Let’s look at a simple example. I have included the first two lines from the 20 bar exercise on p11 below.\nThe first exercise I’d like to share is as follows. 8th notes are to be played on the bass drum and the 1/4 notes with the snare. Over the top of this play 8th notes on the hi hat. Here’s what the first two lines should sound like.\nOf course, there is a multitude of ways of tweaking this exercise, for instance by playing different hi-hat patterns, or by playing rudiments (I’ll address this in future articles). How many can you come up with? Subsequent pages are great for practicing bass drum technique and double bass facility.\nBelow is a more advanced application of Syncopation. This time we’re using p38, the first of the mixed exercises from the syncopation section of the book. From now on, I’m playing the 8th notes using a swung interpretation (more on this in subsequent posts).\nPlay 2 and 4 with the hi-hat foot, and a triplet roll (sextuplets) on the snare. Quarter notes are played on the cymbals with the bass drum, 8th notes are accented on the snare drum. Here’s what it sounds like.\nBelow is another example from the same page, mixing up the above approach with 2 others (see ‘The Drummer’s Complete Vocabulary’ by John Ramsay).\n‘The Drummer’s Complete Vocabulary’ is an excellent resource for guiding the intermediate and advanced player’s practice with Syncopation. Following the scheme of study here will transform the feel of you’re playing in whatever style you choose, by embedding the triplet feel into your playing – whether you’re aiming to play jazz or if you want to play a fat lazy groove like John Bonham, these exercises will help (why not do both!)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "damnit grandpa it’s 2021, they’re not spiders anymore, they’re arachnid americans and more importantly my friends\nMy anaconda will consider it\nMy anaconda has, upon review of the information presented with its partners, decided that it, in fact, does not. My anaconda apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause and thanks you for your time.\nA high school banned the marching band from playing Fall Out Boy songs because the lyrics were suggestive.\nA marching band\nIsn’t allowed to play Fall Out Boy\nBecause of suggestive lyrics\nMarching bands are instrumental\nThe High School Band Can’t Play Fall Out Boy Songs Because The Lyrics Are Suggestive by Panic! At The Disco.\nTO SEE A MARCHING BAND", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Music Lessons in Speer, IL. It's your time.\nIn person or online. We've got everything you need to get started and stay motivated!\nA Better Way to Learn\nMusic Lessons in Speer\nPopular Music Lessons| Live classes, amazing instructors\nTeaches Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced\nTeaching since 1990\nTeaches students 5 and up\nI use vocalizes to teach change in the voice and also different types of music to attain a better sound. I try to make it as physical as possible since so much of the effort depends on the brain. I want to help each student achieve their goal. Together we can get to that sound which is uniquely you.\nHello! My name is Cathy and I have been teaching voice (singing) for over 30 years. But don't let that fool you into thinking I'm a stogy old girl who doesn't have a pulse on contemporary music. I teach pop, country, broadway, folk, whatever it is your interested in. I do teach with vocal exerc\nSpeaks ENGLISH, ITALIAN\nAccounting Diploma from Itc Giannone-Masi\nTeaching since 2013\nCiao guys, Mattia here.\nHave you ever wanted to play drums but you don’t know how to start? Or have you played for a while and feel stuck, like you’re losing time or missing a piece?\nI felt the same when I first started, but private lessons helped me achieve my goals and become the person I am today: A Professional Musician.\nIf I did it, so can you.\nI’m excited to offer you online lessons where I will help you achieve your goals through a personalized path which includes technique + reading; groove like pop, rock, jazz; fills + solos; and anything else you wanna work on.\nAre you ready to improve your skills?\nMattia has been playing the drums for more than half of his life. He is an exciting player and teacher with a big love for music. He has performed a range of musical styles with many bands and artists in Italy and UK and has been part of the entertainment on board the Costa Cruise ships. Mattia is\nTeaches Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced\nTeaching since 2019\nMusic Education from University of Cincinnati\nJade S.Book Now\nI want to help you reach your musical goals on cello whether it be solo, chamber, orchestral or other! I teach through the Suzuki Method along with additional materials for advanced students. It is important to be a well rounded musician, so I will work on technique, musicality and performance with students.\nI am a student at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music doing a double major in Music Education and Cello Performance. I have been studying cello for eight years, though I started my musical journey on piano. I have worked with students from elementary to 50+. Playing an i\nSpeaks English, Italian, French, Italian, Russian\nBachelor of Science in Art and Music from Case Western Reserve University\nTeaching since 1978\nSinging for musical theater is a combination of singing and acting. I work with young people and adults of all ages teaching classic technique combined with performance skills. Lessons start with exercises that help youo learn how to take deep natural breath breaths and use your to support your voice. Ear training and help you sing on key. Vocal exercises will help develop the quality of your voice and increase your range making it easier to hit those high notes. You will also learn how to use phrasing as you sing to put feeling into the words and connect with the audience. As your voice develops you will build a repertoire of music that you like to sing that you can use for auditions. If you want to audition for a play or musical, learning how to be completely natural on stage as you perform helps you build your self-confidence.\nIf you like to sing and want to learn how to be a better singer, you don't have to have any previous experience or training. I specialize in teaching beginning singers of any age how to sing using the classic technique that is the foundation for singing any genre or style of music from Bach to Broa\nTeaches Beginner, Intermediate\nTeaching since 2005\nBME in Music Education from The College of Wooster\nI work with the student to develop a curriculum based on their musical interests and my own teaching pedagogy. I strongly feel that for young musicians to own their education, they must have a say in what they play. Assigning method books and mindless etudes to practice doesn't have nearly the same effect asking them \"Ok, what kind of music do YOU like? What do you want to PLAY? What do you want to LEARN?\".\nI believe that students learn best when they are invested in a subject, and the best way to get them invested is to individually get to know each one, speak to them on their level, and get them playing music they're interested in.\nI'm a professional performer, educator, and recording artist. I received my Masters in Music from New Mexico State University, and my BA and BME from the College of Wooster in Ohio. Students can expect to improve their technique and performing repertoire within a matter of weeks. We will collabo\nMy guitar skills. He was great at listening and giving me a well thought out answers to my questions. I highly recommend it this teacher!\nTeaches students 7 and up\nTeaching since 2006\nAwarded President Honors from University of Hartford\nWith 10 years of teaching experience, I specialize in working with students of all ages and abilities. Lessons incorporate music theory, technique, and lyrical expression. I look forward to helping you reach your goals!\nI hold a Master's Degree in Oboe Performance from the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach. During my studies I studied with Carolyn Hove and Humbert Lucarelli.\nGrace has extensive experience teaching private and group lessons, including lessons in Piano, English Horn and reed making. Her students have gone on to win scholarships and place in honor orchestras. Currently, her students hold the top spots in nTyme's (North Torrance Youth Musicians Ensemble) C\nConnect Locally or Online\nHow It Works\nHere's why 2 million people a month use TakeLessons\nEducating the World\n- Easy and Hassle-Free\n- 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed\n- Background Checked Teachers\n- Over 3 Million Lessons Given\nI have been taking lessons from James for less than two months and I am feeling so confident about everything I have learned so far. I knew nothing about a note or a chord and now I do!\nHe is a great teacher and so easy to understand. If you don’t get it , he explains a different way until you do.\nI told him I was taking lessons for fun and never wanted to be a concert pianist.\nI am having great fun with the music and learning is helping me clear up my head.\nI very highly recommend James to Seniors and young people. He emanates the love he has for music and teaching it.\nBest thing I have done for myself in a very long time. I am very excited about my lessons.\"\nFinding the best electronic drum set for you may take some research and savvy shopping. Here are some helpful tips from Rosedale, MD teacher Theresa D... Are you a beginning drummer, a drummer that is looking for something different, or a composer looking to add some beats tracks to a song? Well, buying an electronic drum set may be the answer that you are looking for -- but there are many different drums to choose from. 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{"text": "Welcome to Ticket Tuesdays, a new weekly chance for you to score entry to some of the hottest shows and events in the Bay Area.\nThe San Francisco Ballet’s season opens with a trio of performances: the premiere of Serge Lifar’s neoclassical work Suite en Blanc, the return of Jerome Robbins’ graceful In the Night set to music by Chopin, and a world premiere by Royal Ballet resident choreographer Wayne McGregor.\nFor his first SF Ballet commission—designed for 12 dancers and scored by Joel Cadbury of U.K. trip-hop group Unkle—McGregor found inspiration in the work of abstract painter Josef Albers.\nAnd one lucky winner will win a pair of tickets to opening night of Program 1 on January 29. Just sign up below for the daily 7x7 e-newsletter and you'll be entered to win a night at the War Memorial Opera House!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "BREAKDOWN ANALYSIS by Planet Giles\n(from the INSIGHTS album released in 2022)\nTIME started as a song for my sister’s daughter called Gabriela. In the end it became Time, and Gabriela has made her way onto another song in which she will be immortalised!\nTIME is my favourite song on this album. It has taken the place of PACHA MAMA Track #6. The reason is not because of its simplicity, but because of its ridiculous complexity. Not only are there many musical parts which dovetail and weave together (and therefore had to be played as accurately as possible without resorting to quantization), but there is no let up! It is breakneck from beginning to end, changing form and key as it hurtles from section to section with barely a pause. And this is a wonderfully dynamic track to play live which demands 100% focus to pull off the complex rhythmic chords whilst singing the melody and its words in two languages.\nI particularly love the way the SOLO just goes off on its own trip, so to speak! Scat singing is something Pete and I have always enjoyed, as it comes from a familiar jazz tradition which was brilliantly demonstrated by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. It is basically soloing with one’s voice, and is a lot of fun to do. I had demoed this solo a while back, but I felt I couldn’t do a better version, so I had to learn it from my own demoed version - fun, but couldn’t remember any of it, so I had to learn it from scratch.\nIt was a proud moment when Pete said that some of my chord changes and their subsequent weird bass lines were, ‘harder than anything I’ve ever played with King Crimson / 21st Century Schizoid Band’. High praise indeed! And weird because I never try to write weird chord structures. They just come out that way. But it’s always great when you write and play enough to develop your own sound and style, because that’s what creativity is really all about.\nCheck out the video of our Pete listening intently to a mix of this in Fuzz’s studio!\nSupport Indie Music from Planet Giles!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Subscribe today for weekly travel inspiration, tips, and special offers.\nPassport: Your weekly travel wrap-up\nToday's Departure: Your daily dose of travel inspiration\nThis center celebrates theater (with a clever children's series) and dance, but more so, jazz in all its forms. Highlights in Jazz and Lost Jazz Shrines are two of its special series.\n199 Chambers St., at Greenwich St., New York, New York, 10007, United States\nWhen did you go?\nHow many stars would you give?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Miley Cyrus Hints That A New Era Of Music Is On The Way\nMiley Cyrus has gotten fans in a frenzy by hinting that new music is on the way. The singer posted a throwback video from her 2008 single “Start All Over,” which was on her debut solo album Breakout. She captioned the video, “Meet Miley Cyrus….. again. #SheIsComing #ButForRealThisTime.”\nLater, Miley posted a teaser of a new song. According to Billboard, the new song will be titled “Midnight Sky.” They add that her new album will be titled She Is Miley Cyrus. Listen to the upbeat “Midnight Sky” teaser below.\nMiley Cyrus’s Raciest Fashion Choices", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "3 Of A Perfect Pair at The Library\nFriday, October 30, 2020, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm\nAn acoustic trio with lots of harmonies. Brad Springmeyer plays acoustic guitars and sings, Bill Yaeger plays Cajon and sings, Gregg Hopkins plays bass and sings. Interesting mix of songs from Beatles to Blues. Come see them jam out live this Friday at The Library!!!!!\n10 South Spanish Street, Cape Girardeau, MO", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tabor(n.) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.\nTabor(v. i.) To play on a tabor, or little drum.\nTabor(v. i.) To strike lightly and frequently.\nTabor(v. t.) To make (a sound) with a tabor.\nTabored(imp. & p. p.) of Tabor\nTaborer(n.) One who plays on the tabor.\nTaboring(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tabor\nWords within tabor", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Siudy Garrido is a flamenco artist who strongly believes in maintaining the roots of flamenco as well as promoting the evolution of the art form. Her production, \"Bailaora- within me, within you,\" can be seen this weekend at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.\n\"Bailaora\" stays true to traditional flamenco while incorporating different styles of music employing the flute, flamenco guitar, electric guitar and percussion instruments. The company goes far beyond the parameters of flamenco.\n\"Bailaora\" ( “flamenco dancer”) is the latest creation from Garrido, a dancer and award- winning choreographer. Garrido collaborates with different artists in order to advance the evolution of flamenco. Her work fuses elements of contemporary music and traditional flamenco.\nFlamenco was once thought to only exist in restaurants and small clubs with the dancers performing traditional steps and wearing bata de colas ( long skirts ). No more.\nSince its founding in 2000 in Caracas, Venezuela, Siudy Flamenco Company has developed a repertoire featuring multidisciplinary collaboration with visual artists, dancers, musicians, designers, filmmakers, and composers from all backgrounds. This innovative company has also collaborated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the South Florida Symphony Orchestra. Garrido says “flamenco is a very powerful form of art. You can add different styles of music and it maintains its essence.”\n\"Bailaora- within me, within you\" is one of Garrido’s most personal works as it offers a humanist commentary on self- invention and self- determination. It is, in essence, an artistic awakening.\nThe program is divided into seven acts: Awakening, Root, Frontier, Impure, Warriors, Brave and Evolution. The original music is composed by Juan Parrilla and Manuel Fernandez and features Rondena, Tango, Buleria, Seguirillia and Alegrias..\nGarrido says Flamenco “is not only a passion, but my life. It is like breathing.” She was born in Caracas, Venezuela and comes from a family of flamenco artists. Her first teacher was her mother, Siudy Quintero. Garrido has worked with major companies such as Disney, Cirque du Soleil and the Latin Grammys. One of her productions: \"Siudy: Between Worlds\" had an off-Broadway run.\nMiami became the company’s headquarters in 2015. It is here that Garrido rehearses with her company and also offers flamenco classes for the community. The school is a year-round institution where students study to become accomplished flamenco dancers through dance education directed and mentored by professional dance teachers.\nFor more than two decades, Garrido has been dedicated to continue the expansion of flamenco as an art form. One of her hopes, too, is to get young audiences excited about flamenco.\nGarrido says she is “super happy” to be back at work after the lockdown of 2020. The company was set to begin a tour one week before the pandemic closed down much of society.\nDuring this time the company continued to rehearse and teach.\n\"Every art is totally different. I love to work with people I admire in different types of music and dance, I love the exchange and the communication between the arts,” says Garrido. Her hope is that \"Bailaora-within me, within you\" captures it all.\nSiudy Flamenco Company: \"Bailaora- within me, within you\"\nFriday, Oct. 8, Saturday, Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 10 at 6 p.m.\nKnight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center\n1300 Biscayne Blvd. Miami 33132\nTickets, $25, $55, $75, $95 at www.arshtcenter.org", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dearborn’s Annual Suzuki Flute Workshop 2011\nFriday–Sunday, January 7–9, 2011\nSacred Heart Church\n22430 Michigan Ave.\nDearborn, MI 48124\nAbout the Workshop\nEvery year, flute students and teachers practicing in the Suzuki method are invited to attend Dearborn’s Annual Suzuki Flute Workshop. Students are introduced to new perspectives from our talented clinicians. Workshop includes the following experiences:\n• 3 individual lessons\n• 2 group classes\n• 2 large group classes\n• A Soloist Recital (particpation limited)\n• A Finale Concert (all Workshop particpants)\nLarson has distinguished herself throughout the flute world as a prolific performer at home in a variety of styles. Currently principal flute with the Flint Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Larson also plays flute and piccolo with the Michigan Opera Theatre orchestra. She has appeared as a soloist with distinguished symphony orchestras, chamber orchestras, and produced a popular lecture/concert series in Miami, “The Evolution of the Flute.” Ms. Larson’s musical interests arebeen diverse: ranging from singing in chamber, jazz and concert choirs, jamming with jazz groups, to studying the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute)..\nKelley McDermott has concertized throughout the United States and performs regularly as Artist-Masterclass clinician. Ms. McDermott has degrees in flute performance from Michigan State University and Temple University, and has studied at the Aspen, Teton, and Sarasota Music Festivals, as well as the William Bennett class in England. Her teachers in flute studies include Murray Panitz, Renee Siebert, Kazuo Tokito and Marzio Conti. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University Preparatory Division. She maintains a Suzuki Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan.\nDeadline: December 26, 2010\n1. Download Application Form (pdf, 100 KB)\n2. Complete Application\n3. Mail Applicaiton and Checks (payable to Donna Olkowski):\nSuzuki Flute Workshop\nc/o Donna Olkowski\n421 S. Claremont\nDearborn, MI 48124\n2011 Workshop Pricing\nFull Workshop: $100 / three days\nTeacher Observation: $35 / day\nChecks payable to Donna Olkowski.\nQuestions and Information\nRSVP on Facebook\nPrint the Flyer for posting and promotion.\nDownload (pdf, 452 KB)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Bring Your Heart to the Party8:01 AM\n'Bring your Heart to the Party\"- Lenka\nThis is one of my late-night practice lettering after being inspired by my lettering teachers.\nI thought this Lenka song is an inspiration. :)\nI really like Lenka's songs and I think she makes music like no other.\nAnd I am also grateful that she appreciated my (unfinished) work in twitter. I", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This past August, three Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk student-musicians traveled to Mako and Budapest, Hungary with the Empire State Youth Orchestra (ESYO) Wind Orchestra to participate and perform in the 2018 convention of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles. Twelfth-graders Kaylee Eacho (flute), Simon Lindmark (trumpet) and Logan Wilson (percussion) joined 45 other students from the Capital Region to perform with and listen to some of the world’s finest wind ensembles.\n“I was surrounded by hundreds of people that shared the same passion for music as I did,” Eacho said. “I would give anything to go back and experience it all again.”\nThe musicians performed advanced musical pieces during the convention performance, gave an outdoor “Pops” concert and marched in the First King of Hungary celebration alongside the other participating musical groups.\n“It was a once in a lifetime experience,” Wilson said. “Meeting so many new friends through the ESYO Wind Orchestra that have a passion for music made the experience better and gave me friendships that will last much longer than the trip.”\nThe cross-cultural exchange allowed the three RCS musicians to collaborate with student-musicians from Europe, China, Russia, and Romania.\n“Not only did I enjoy the culture, but playing with many different countries from around the world was so much fun and a huge honor,” Lindmark said.\nEacho, Lindmark and Wilson each auditioned for the opportunity to perform abroad with the highly-selective ESYO program. Once accepted, the trio spent several nights during the 2017-18 school year and over the summer vacation rehearsing with the ensemble in preparation for their Hungary tour.\n“They are exemplary student-musicians and we are so proud of them for representing RCS music abroad,” RCS High School band director John Fatuzzo said. “They have worked tirelessly to prepare their audition materials and concert music, demonstrating admirable dedication to their passion.”\nStudent-musicians have many outlets at RCS, from classroom curriculum to active participation in award-winning instrumental and choral ensembles. The RCS music department was recently recognized as a “Best Community for Music Education” by the National Association for Music Merchants (NAMM) this past spring.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Apple Music is a streaming music service which is made by Apple Inc. Users may choose the songs they like and play them on their devices. It requires users sign up for membership, a single membership costs $9,99 per month, and a family plan costs $14,99 per month. Assuming that you wish to collect the songs and get a backup of them, you can just burn songs from Apple Music to CD. After burning CD, you may then play the songs in your car or at home without paying a single cent. How is this possible? Simple. All you need is a tool for recording from Apple Music and another tool to burn the recorded file into CD. Below are the tools which can help you in downloading and burning Apple Music.\nHow to Burn Songs from Apple Music to CD\nUltimate Way to Burn Apple Music onto a CD\nIn order to easily copy Apple Music on CD, it is best to make use of a desktop software called Streaming Audio Recorder. It has an intuitive interface and comes with batch of effective functions. You could record songs on Apple Music into a wide range of formats including MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, AAC and etc. If you have enough space on hard drive, it is recommended to save the audio in 320kbps which produces high quality recordings. Now, let’s take a look at steps to burn Apple Music to CD.\nDownload the application on computer\nClick on the button above to get the tool, quick install it by following the guide. Just rest assured that this software won’t bring harm to your computer as it is clean and safe.\n- Configure necessary settings\nAfter launching the software, you can adjust the format, quality, audio input, destination directory and others in “Setting” at will.\n- Conduct Apple Music recording job\nOpen Apple Music and play any song you like. On the software’s interface, click red round button to record the played music. The name, duration, size and status of recorded file will show on the interface, you may check it at any time.\n- Stop the recording\nWhen the music is end, click on red square button to stop recording. After that, the recorded file will be seen in the “Library” of the software and be saved on your hard drive. To see where they are saved, right click the file and then choose “Open Folder”.\n- Add Apple Music to CD burner\nOpen the CD ROM and put the CD into it. Then, open tools menu and choose “CD Burner”. You will see another window opens, click “Add” button to load Apple Music songs into it.\n- Organize audios for burning CD\nBefore burning Apple Music to CD, adjust the order of the files which needed to be burned. You can keep loading songs to your CD by clicking “Add” button and selecting them from local directory into the burner. Besides, “Move Up” and “Move Down” are used for re-organize the order of files.\n- Burn audio files to CD\nClick “Start” button and wait for the burning to be finished.\nFree Programs to Burn Apple Music to CD\nFirst off, we need to record the song from Apple Music using the Apowersoft Free Online Audio Recorder. It is a free web-based tool which allows users to record any audio from the computer’s system sound, microphone or both. In this case, it is recommended to customize the audio source as system sound. To use this Apple Music recorder, just go to its webpage, click the “Start Recording” button and then run the launcher. Once the tool is ready, it will appear on your screen. Next, play the music that you want to get and then click the “Start” button to start with the recording, you may pause or end up your recording at any time you need. The file will then display in the “Recording List”, from here you can go further to more function such as play, edit and more.\nAfter recording, now start burning Apple Music to CD by using iTunes. Since you are utilizing Apple Music, you surely have installed iTunes on your computer.\n- Run iTunes and create a playlist to store the recorded songs.\n- Open the menu and click “New” – “New Playlist”, drag the files into the newly created playlist.\n- Once done, insert the CD. Click the “Settings” icon to choose “Burn Playlist to Disc”.\n- A new window will pop-out which lets you choose your preferred speed, disk format for CD burning.\n- Hit “Burn” and wait for copying the files to CD. Depending on the size and quantity of the songs, the process sometimes lasts for more minutes or hours.\n- When it is done, the window will pop up to remind you.\nGreat, you can listen to Apple Music with CD.\nAlthough the method is really helpful, we cannot deny the fact that it has a complicated procedure especially for newbie. Furthermore, it is not convenient to switch from the two programs.\nComparison and Conclusion\nTo sum it up, these two methods are both helpful to burn songs from Apple Music to CD. However, if you compare them, it is evident that the desktop software Streaming Audio Recorder is more efficient since it provides one-stop solution to record music and burn CD easily. On the contrary, the second method is somewhat time consuming and complicated.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Moses Sumney - Aromanticism\nMoses Sumney’s Debut Aromanticism is Already Timeless\nMoses Sumney’s voice is the rudder of his music. Often doubling as an instrument itself, his voice shapeshifts between raspiness and falsetto, guiding the swells of his music. On his debut album, Aromanticism, Sumney navigates deftly between themes of longing and unanswered questions.\nAfter a harmonizing choir introduces the album, “Don’t Bother Calling” begins to showcase Sumney’s vocal talents. Initially briefly shrouded in a muddled vocal filter, his voice emerges and gradually rises higher in Sumney’s register as the song progresses. String instruments complement his voice, making it the centerpiece of the song.\nWhen there are quieter moments, the negative space feels almost tangible. While there is a lot going on musically with his songs, the more serene moments in Sumney’s music emphasize those intangible feelings that we are not quite able to put into words.\n“Plastic” features the acoustic guitar in tandem with Sumney’s voice as the focal point of the song. As he strums his guitar, he repeats the line: “My wings are made of plastic.” While the hook on “Plastic” can come across as tiring at first, it becomes entrancing after the third or fourth time it is sung, drawing the listener in, causing them to question its meaning. An apparent reference to the Greek myth of Icarus, it takes on different colors as it is repeated, with Sumney’s voice rising and falling alongside grainy violins that sound like they would perfectly in a 1950s film score. This sense of timelessness is what makes Sumney’s music so special. He manages to blend his musical influences into a brand of songwriting that is immediately recognizable as his own.\nEasily one of the most varied songs from Aromanticism, “Quarrel” starts off quietly with some vocal harmonizing on the part of Sumney. The song blossoms into an odyssey of orchestra, drum machine and solo piano. The musical references to funk and psychedelic jazz later on in the song are reminiscent of Sumney’s L.A. contemporaries Thundercat and Kamasi Washington.\nSumney references Jericho on this song, one of the many religious references scattered throughout the album. Sumney’s parents were pastors, so it seems that these references were deeply ingrained in him since his childhood.\nSpoken word is used to transition between songs on this album on two occasions: from “Stoicism” to “Lonely World” and from “The Cocoon-Eyed Baby” to “Doomed.” Unexplained phrases like “My mom would drop me off in our family's second-hand Mitsubishi caravan” and “We scrawl / Unwritten law of the land / On scroll that’s rolled up and rolled in / The cocoon-eyed baby's / Swollen, clenched hand” add an air of mystery to each song they precede.\nThe set-up for “Lonely World” that “Stoicism’” provides is brilliant: it sounds as if Sumney is walking to his car at night, accompanied by the noise of keys jangling and insects chirping, all the while quietly humming the intro to “Lonely World” to himself. The humming and guitar strumming helps the song transition seamlessly into “Lonely World,” a fiery, complex song. The song initially has the darker atmosphere of an older country song, incorporating elements of lonesomeness with quiet guitar picking. An unmistakable feeling of something ancient permeates this song as Sumney utters lines like: “And the void speaks to you / In ways nobody speaks to you / And that voice fills the air / Fog in the morning going nowhere.”\nThe songs “Make Out in My Car” and “Doomed” feel dense, almost as if you could swim deep within them. “Doomed” in particular is achingly beautiful, a real standout later in the album. His voice pivots while he says, “If lovelessness is godlessness / Will you cast me to the wayside?” A sense of weariness seems to fill him from all his unanswered questions. A true slow-burner, “Doomed” grows all the more devastating as it progresses. This is the point in Aromanticism when the listener feels that they are almost in the same room as Sumney given how poignant this song is.\nUnfortunately, the final two songs of the album don’t leave as great an impression as “Doomed” does. While their simplicity is calming, it would’ve been nice to finish the album on a more memorable note. The final song does end on a more mysterious note, though. After some wordless vocal flourishes, Sumney finishes the album accompanied by several distant voices that deliver the final words of the album: “Imagine being free / Imagine tasting free / Imagine feeling free / Imagine feeling.”\nOn his debut, Sumney explores many different colorful sounds and vocal styles, all the while grounded by the power of the human voice. Aromanticism is an incredible effort by an equally as incredible songwriter and musician.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Timeless Historical CBC 1-081\nThe Charleston Chasers was a New York studio group whose jazz content and top-notch musicianship was guaranteed and provided by men like the Dorsey Brothers and Benny Goodman. Formally their music was what we call hot dance music and the same can be said about the other groups on this CD.\nA session under the direction by Red Nichols was made in 1929 under the somewhat strange name “Midnight Airedales”.\nIn the attractive tune Swanee Shuffle by Irving Berlin from the early talkie Hallelujah we get a nice vocal by Red McKenzie who apart from a good voice has the quality to make you stop and listen to what he has to say. Glenn Miller’s trombone lays out the melody for us. Fud Livingston has a little solo spot on tenor in a tight and well performed arrangement.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This Max for Live device is a modification of Ableton’s Chord device, which allows you to play chords by only pressing one key. It’s basically a mix between the Chord device and my Repitch device, thus ReChord. When you turn the pitch knobs to change the chord, or turn the toggles for each pitch on or off, this device immediately changes the chord you’re holding to the new chord. Making it a lot more modulatable. You can automate the knobs and toggles to play more dynamic moving chords with the press of one key.\nThe device has the same velocity scaling that Ableton’s Chord device has, allowing you to control the velocity of each pitch of the chord separately.\nIt has the same quantize function as Repitch, which allows you to only change to the chord on the beat division you specify. And a speed limiter which limits the speed that the chord can change.\nAlso there’s a Duplicate Note Filter, which will filter out duplicate note offs that can occur when using this device polyphonically. For example, if one of the pitch knobs is set to +4 and you play a C3 and an E3, and then let go of the E3 before the C3, the E3 that is held from your C3 (C3 + 4) will still hold. This makes sure your chords still hold the way you want them to when the device is played polyphonically.\nThis device is great at making complex music, without having to meticulous input your chord changes. Just automate or modulate them instead!\nSpecial thanks to Nathan Turczan for the idea. He has his own MIDI plugin Scale Navigator that you shuold check out: https://www.scalenavigator.com/", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I don't even feel like this album is the band who recorded Almost Here - and definitely not the band who recorded Santi - it's all very watered-down and boring. I feel like the label talked them into making a marketable sound, even though they were headed in the right direction.\nNot one song strikes me - I am just so bummed this album completely lacks motivation. It's lazy and fluffy. Regardless, you nailed it Jules - as always, awesome review. I love it.\nI hear them somewhere in the album, but it mostly lacks innovation, which they at least tried on Santi.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Released in 1983, while Marilyn McCoo was hosting the popular music program of the same name, Solid Gold was more a tie-in -- one that failed to chart -- than a proper solo album. It begins with a performance of the show's theme song, and it's heavy on straightforward covers of then-recent pop hits, including the Police's \"Every Breath You Take,\" Daryl Hall & John Oates' \"One on One,\" and Culture Club's \"I'll Tumble 4 Ya.\" The finale is a spirited medley of David Bowie's \"Let's Dance\" and Men Without Hats' \"The Safety Dance\" that contains a fairly amusing segue and change in mood. There's some original material, most notably \"I Believe in You and Me,\" a duet with longtime partner Billy Davis, Jr. Written by Sandy Linzer and album producer David Wolfert, the song was also a minor hit for the Four Tops the same year, and was much more successful through its 1996 Whitney Houston version. In 2014, the Real Gone label issued the album on CD for the first time and added the previously unreleased \"Relationship,\" written by the Kinks' Dave Davies.\nAllMusic Review by Andy Kellman", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ghanaian reggae-dancehall artiste, Samini has been featured in the official Theme Song for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) due to be held in Cameroon in January 2022.\nThe “My Own” hitmaker joined a host of other prominent and promising musicians on the continent to create the track which will serve as the tournament’s official theme song.\n“Collectif Africa Smile” composed the song “African Smile.” Three songs were submitted prior to its release, with “AfricanSmile” receiving 86.32 votes, edging out singer Grace Bethel’s by 1.61 votes. Gorge Samba and Taty Eyoung’s collaboration came in third place with 78 votes.\nSalatiel, Timi Dakolo, Assia, Hakim, Jaylann, Rayen Youssef, Tukkiman, Imilo Iechanceux, and Mylmo are among the other African singers featured in the 5-minute song.\nIn addition, the official mascot for Africa’s biggest showpiece has been dubbed ‘Mola,’ which refers to a friend or relative in Cameroon. The 2022 AFCON will begin on Sunday, January 9, 2022.\nWatch the Video Of AFCON2021 Official Theme Song Below:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "‘Everyone needs to find their one thing and then do something about it.’ That has been Jody Johnson’s motto throughout her many roles with the Fort Collins Symphony. Her past roles include serving as President of the Symphony Guild, Chairman of the Cranberry Pops Concert and President of the Symphony Board.\nJohnson, who was involved with the selection of Wes Kenney to be the new Music Director, found it to be a challenging and stimulating process—one which was critical to the strong continuation of the Symphony on the Lincoln Center stage.\nThrough the process of “keeping classical music alive” for this community, she made lasting friendships with members of the Guild and Board that continue today. As challenging as it has sometimes been, Johnson feels proud to have been involved all these years and raves about the work and quality of both the musicians and of Kenney.\nJohnson’s motto of ‘finding that one thing and then doing something about it’ has served the Fort Collins Symphony very well.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If you are a professional or emerging LGBTQ+ performer, consider applying to perform at a Capital Pride 2022 event.\nMusic in the Night\nSaturday, June 11th\nPerformance Hours: 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm\nWe are excited for the return of our annual Broadway musical revue, Music in the Night! Consider applying to perform on October 10th at City Winery for an evening of music and theatrical performances featuring local talent from across the region, as well as special guest, Conrad Ricamora!\nCapital Pride Celebration\nJune 2 – 11, 2023\nCapital Pride Block Party: 12:00 pm – 10:00 pm\nCapital Pride Festival: 12:00 pm – 10:00 pm\nFor a week every June, we enthusiastically welcome to Washington, DC over 600,000 LGBTQ+ friends and allies from around the United States and throughout the world for the Capital Pride Celebration, including the popular and free Pride Parade, Festival, and Concert.\nApplications to perform at the 2023 Block Party and Festival will be made available in December 2022.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lyn Besse McGinnis\nLYN Besse (maiden name - pronounced BessEE) McGinnis (married name) is a blue sky prairie girl from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada.\nOne woman, one guitar & a suitcase full of original songs.\nFrom singalongs to soulful ballads, Lyn's song are wrapped around a good story and served up with distinctive vocals & a little sass on the side.\nLyn got her first guitar at 12 for $10 and a stick of gum. Originally a closet singer/songwriter, Lyn finally took her music out of the bathroom (best acoustics in the house) to the rest of the world after attending her first songwriting workshop with Kim Fontaine, David j Taylor & Jay Semko and went on to record her single song CD The cardinal in the window in 2007 to raise money for cancer research, followed by her full length debut album All Over the Map in 2009. The album title answers the question \"so Lyn, what kind of songs do you write?\". Lyn credits Kim Fontaine, Jay Semko & David j Taylor for inspiring, motivating and mentoring her out of the bathroom!\nHer 2nd album Next Time Around was released in October 2013 and was nominated for the 2014 Saskatchewan Country Music Association's ROOTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR! In 2014, Lyn released her single song The Veil of Tamar - check out the blog story on this one.\nHer 3rd album A Simple Life was digitally released in October 2018 with a physical release in 2019 & nominated for the 2019 Saskatchewan Country Music Association's ALBUM OF THE YEAR. Lyn released her first \"real\" music video on Christmas Eve 2018 for the song You Shine.\nThe bathroom sessions continue....\nLyn's songs So it begins & I Waited for You were both written as wedding gifts; recorded on a Zoom H4 in her bathroom; and later mastered along with the other songs on All Over the Map & Next Time Around.\nRight after her showcase at the 2009 Saskatchewan Country Music Awards playing songs from All Over the Map, Lyn sold a CD to Deborah Lauren, a prairie country legend, in the Ladies Room. \"The music is finally out there but now I'm marketing in the bathroom!\"\nFollowing her participation at the 2017 Saskatchewan Country Music Awards Songwriters Circle, a fan approached her in the Ladies Room about a House Concert. \"And now I'm booking shows in the bathroom!\"\n- Semi-finalist in the 2020 US Songwriting Competition\n- Semi-finalist in the 2020 UK Songwriting Contest\n- Nominated for Album of the Year (A Simple Life) - Saskatchewan Country Music Awards 2019\n- Organizer and Participant in the Songwriters' Circle at the 2019 Saskatchewan Country Music Awards in Saskatoon April 2019\n- Semi-finalist in the Canadian Songwriting Competition (announced in April 2017)\n- Participant in the Songwriters Circle at the 2017 Saskatchewan Country Music Awards in Saskatoon March 2017\n- Four songs recorded by other Canadian artists\n- Finalist (I'll Hang the Moon) & semi-finalist (The Veil of Tamar) in the 2014 UK Songwriting Contest\n- 2014 SaskMusic grant for a single song recording (The Veil of Tamar)\n- Nominated for Roots Album of the Year (Next Time Around) & Emerging Artist - 2014 Saskatchewan Country Music Awards\n- Co-facilitated a songwriting workshop through Sound Advice at the 2013 Juno's in Regina SK\n- Won an international lyric writing contest through SongLink in 2012\nAS A PERFORMER:\nLook for Lyn in her favourite venues - house concerts, coffee houses, songwriting circles & other intimate settings. Lyn is also pitching her songs to other artists, TV & film & other artists; teaching songwriting; and developing commercial partnerships. And, of course, writing new songs!\n2016-2018 Shows Around Saskatchewan\n2013 \"Next Time Around Tour\" included shows in Saskatoon, Regina, Hope BC & Lund BC.\n2010 \"Gypsy as I Go All Over the Map Tour\" with Cathleen Lesperance was billed as Two Women, One Convertible & A Whole Lotta Music! Playing intimate venues, Lyn developed a comfortable rapport with her audience; sharing the stories behind the songs & they all have a story.\nAS A SONGWRITER:\nLyn has written songs in many genres and has notebooks full of hooks, ideas & phrases as well as a cell phone full of recorded la de da melodies. She has co-written in person/online; with one or more co-writers & large groups; locally, nationally & internationally.\nSongs 4 Nature organized through buddy Dr. Glenn Sutter at Royal Sask Museum is her yearly songwriting retreat. A long weekend immersed in nature & creativity at locations around Saskatchewan.\nLyn started off attending songwriting classes and then went on to teach. Assisted with facilitator duties at the University of Saskatchewan USCAD Songwriting I and II Workshops in 2009 & 2010; at the Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus Songwriters' Retreat in 2010 with Jay Semko, David j Taylor and Kim Fontaine; & in 2012 with Dean McTaggart and Kim Fontaine. Lyn partnered with Kim Fontaine to offer a one day Songwriting Workshop through Sound Advice as part of 2013 Juno Week in Regina. In June 2014 & 2016, Lyn faciliated songwriting workshops - THE ART & CRAFT OF SONGWRITING with students from Amy Nelson's Sing Like a Star Studios in Regina.\nStriving to be a lifelong learner, in April 2013 Lyn completed a 6 week online songwriting course offered by Pat Pattison through the Berless College of Music in Boston. (RIP Pat...we miss you)\nIn 2012, Lyn won an International Lyric Writing Contest advertised through SONGLINK INTERNATIONAL (based in the U.K.). Songwriters from around the world submitted lyrics to an established melody written by Ronnie Hedderwick, a composer from Spain. Lyn won, received a cash prize & retained writer credit for the collaboration entitled \"I'll Hang the Moon\". Ronnie surprised Lyn by having a demo made in London, England with the perfect young voice. The song was a finalist in the 2014 UK Songwriting Competition.\nSOCAN, Songwriter's Association of Canada; SaskMusic; Folk Music Canada; Folk Alliance International; Canadian Country Music Association; Saskatchewan Country Music Association; the Canadian Academy of Recording Artists & Science (CARAS); & the Canadian Independent Recording Artists'Association (CIRAA).\nON A MORE PERSONAL NOTE:\nLyn is a songwriter always; a sometimes singer; a life long traveler; a total beach bum; a bicycle and motorcycle rider; a passionate but uneducated gardener; a speaker of passable French and fluent pig latin; and a lover of reading, movies, and cooking when she feels like it. Lyn can't do geometry or whistle; detests clutter and lineups; seeks simplicity but often creates havoc; and is well known to do things she's totally afraid of just so she knows she alive! Latest adventure - learning to surf in Hawaii. Next up...skydiving!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Date(s) - 02/23/2019\n7:30 PM - 10:00 PM\nVan Andel Arena\nCategories No Categories\nCountry Music Hall of Famer Alan Jackson will bring a night of hits to Van Andel Arena on Saturday, February 23, 2019.\nAlan Jackson’s concerts find the country icon performing hits that have gained him legions of longtime fans, songs that continue to draw new crowds as a younger generation discovers his music. Jackson’s repertoire stands the test of time; it has impacted a field of artists who cite Jackson as an influence. It’s these same songs – many written by Alan – that earned him his place alongside country music’s greatest names and cemented his place in its history with membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Fans will hear the songs they love from the man who wrote them and made them famous, including his debut hit “Here in The Real World”… signature songs such as “Chattahoochee,” “Drive” and “Gone Country”… party anthems “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” and “Good Time”… and many, many more.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Download Burna Boy – Last Last (Breakfast) MP3 DOWNLOAD\nPopular superstar & Grammy awards winners, Burna Boycome out with a brand new mind blowing single titled “Last Last (Breakfast)” you can get the song in all various streaming platforms. No doubt this is a very addictive jam.\nListen & Download Last Last (Breakfast) Mp3 Download by Burna Boy Below:-\nDOWNLOAD MP3: Burna Boy – Last Last Breakfast", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Written on: 05/01/2010\nI went shopping for a piano for my daughter taking Grade 10 Conservatory Level. At Merriam Music (Oakville) they had 3 uprights to choose from all Grade 3A. Yamaha YUS1, Kawai K3 amd Perzina GP-122. Sound from this Perzina is amazing. We opted for the 52\" GP-129 even better and hands down the winner.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Carnival of Joy! A Celebration of Hoagy Carmichael's Music\nSaturday, Jun. 08 | 8:00pm ET (7:00pm CT)\nLouis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and countless others had hits with composer Hoagy Carmichael's masterpieces: \"Stardust,\" \"Georgia On My Mind,\" \"Up A Lazy River,\" and hundreds more. Emily Asher's Garden Party now brings a full evening of freshly arranged and reverently re-imagined tunes from Hoagy's fruitful fifty-year career as a singer, songwriter and actor. The band delights audiences of all ages with Asher's tenacious trombone and sweet vocals, Mike Davis' virtuosic trumpet playing, Rob Adkins swinging bass lines and Adam Moezinia's Juilliard honed guitar mastery. This versatile group from New York City's vibrant early jazz scene bring a hot and charming evening of music to the beautiful Acorn theater.\nBox Office opens at 4pm ET\nStarts 8:00pm, doors open 7:00pm", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Reverend and the Makers to perform at Yorkshire record stores\nSheffield indie rock band Reverend & The Makers are to mark the release of their new album with instore performances and signing sessions at two Yorkshire record stores.\nThe five-piece, led by Jon McClure, will play at branches of HMV in Sheffield tomorrow and Leeds on Sunday, October 11.\nRecorded at 2 Fly Studios Sheffield and Geejam Studios in Jamaica, Reverend & The Makers’s new album, Mirrors, is arguably their most eagerly anticipated.\nThe special CD and DVD version of Mirrors is available with a film by acclaimed director Roger Sargent, filmed in Jamaica to accompany each song on the album. All formats of the album include an exclusive 23-minute dub version of the album (overproof dub by Youth) and bonus radio versions of three of the album tracks.\nReverend & The Makers appear at HMV in Sheffield tomorrow at 5pm and at HMV in Leeds city centre on Sunday at 3.30pm. For details visit http://www.hmv.com/hmvlive/Reverend-and-the-makers.\nThey are also due to play concerts at the O2 Academy Sheffield on Saturday November 14 and Stylus in Leeds on November 20. More information is available from http://www.reverendmakers.com/", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Today in Music History\nThis is what really interesting stuff happened on today’s date in music history.\nWe have a complete database archive of music history that you can browse through (link below).\nIt includes musicians births, deaths, important releases and remarkable events in musical history for rock, jazz,\nclassical, pop and every other music genre. If you’d like this music history information for your own site, please contact us.\nWhat happened today in music history:\n1764: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played for the Royal Family at Versailles in France.\n1953: Hank Williams died of drug and alcohol overdose at the age of 29.\n1959: Elvis Presley destroyed his BMW on Germany’s Autobahn.\n1964: The BBC broadcasts the first “Top of the Pops” TV rock show.\n1966: The final episode of “The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet” (with Rick Nelson) was filmed.\n1967: Sonny and Cher were barred from the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, CA, for their support of the Sunset Strip rioters.\n1979: Bruce Springsteen’s cheek was ripped open by a fire-cracker that was thrown onstage from the audience.\n1982: The last ABBA concert was held in Stockholm.\n1989: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) changed the requirements for a musical work to achieve gold and platinum status.\n2002: Eric Clapton and Melia McEnery were married.\n|<<< Previous day||Archives||Next day >>>|", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "Go Off! is the second and final studio album by heavy metal band Cacophony, released in 1988 through Shrapnel Records, About two years after the album's release, guitarist Jason Becker was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (abbreviated ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease), rendering him paralysed and completely unable to play to this day\nCat No: SH1040\nPackaging: CD Regular\nBe The First To Review This Product!\nHelp other Nerve Gas users shop smarter by writing reviews for products you have purchased.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Published on March 4th, 2019 | by Content Admin0\nDementia Active presents Emma Sheppard playing the viola\nEmma graduated from Oxford University with a BA(Hons) in Music. A Senior Exhibitioner at the Royal College of Music, in 1998 Emma won both viola competitions and received a Distinction in her Post Graduate Diploma. In her second year she undertook an ERASMUS exchange to the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), before returning to complete the Advanced Diploma. A brief period of study at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg followed, before she went to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music on the Chamber Music Masters course, studying Viola with Jodi Levitz.\nEmma will be performing for us on the 29th March at 1.30pm in Aynho Village Hall. Everyone is welcome but there will be limited spaces and parking. Ticket cost £5 and are available from the Dementia Active website https://dementiactive.co.uk/ or ring 07711 891028.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "FOR JAMTRENDZ PROMOTIONS, CALL +2347083497765\nMorutty EJOR Mp3 Download\nEnaiho Ruth Omozee is a Nigerian female singer and superb songwriter. She is professionally known and referred to as Morutty. Her brand name is one that reveals unending drive and passion for creative and appealing music.\nDazzling Morutty started her music career at the age of 6 and kept singing；growing to love music as she unfolds into a beautiful damsel who can not do without music and the studio enviroment. She released her first single in 2010 titled -Falling In Luv and her second song titled BamBam with Bolaji as her third song. 100% inspirational singer and african vibe music queen is the NEXT FEMALE RAVE. She will keep you dancing like for ever.\nFinally she has chosen to give her existing/new fans a Morutty HIT titled EJOR （which stands for please love me and stay faithful with me because I am ready to do likewise）. Enjoy her fourth (4th) single titled EJOR. So interesting, enganging and romantic song. Pease share with others on social media, thanks.\nConnect with #Morutty\nDownload, listen & share your views below.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Here comes another enchanting record dubbed Sofri that was composed and recorded by the Nigerian budding artist, Fireboy DML.\nIt is what it is again as we celebrate another impressive and astounding melody captioned Sofri that was introduced by the Nigerian professional hitmaker, Adedamola Adefolahan who is widely known by his stage name as Fireboy DML. This song-tagged Sofri is another track worth adjoining to your audio playlist.\nThis Nigerian highly rated Afrobeat and R&B singer and songwriter, Fireboy DML has been among the Nigerian celebrated artists that have been uploading our audio playlist with lots of amazing songs that are worth listening to. He released this one to keep us on a low-key.\nHe introduced this song titled Sofri as the sixth soundtrack which appears on his phenomenal studio project called Playboy album which consists of fourteen suitable tracks. The production of this song tagged Sofri was gotten from Blaise Beatz a Nigerian renowned music producer.\nDownload Latest FireBoy DML Songs / Music, Videos & Albums/EP's here On Trendysongz.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "North Central College\nHeres a list of upcoming events, programs or awards from North Central College, 30 N. Brainard St., Naperville. For details, call (630) 637-5300, unless otherwise noted.\nRomantic musical: \"She Loves Me,\" a musical that combines literature with a romantic story, is performed at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday, Nov. 7-8. Tickets: $15 adults, $10 students and seniors. Info: (630) 637-7469 or northcentral\nSinger-songwriter: Singer-songwriter Jessica Sonner performs her acoustic pop and soul sounds on guitar at 7 p.m. today, Nov. 7, at The Union, 129 W. Benton Ave., Naperville. Dan Craig opens with folk and rock. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Admission: $8. Info: nccunion.com or (630) 637-5417.\nChoral invitational: North Central presents its annual Invitational Choral Festival, with area choral ensembles joining the colleges Womens Chorale, Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, in Wentz Concert Hall, 171 E. Chicago Ave., Naperville. The women of Waubonsie Valley High School Varsity Singers and Varsity Chamber Choir also will perform. Admission: $5 adults, $3 students and senior citizens. For details, contact (630) 637-7469 or finearts.northcentralcollege.edu/x45155.xml.\nMexican dance: Ballet Folkorico Quetzalcoati, an Aurora-based group, presents a dance spectacle showcasing Mexican culture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Thrust Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall, 31 S. Ellsworth St., Naperville. For details, contact fineartsnorthcentral\nMusical performance: Indie folk singer-songwriters Over The Rhine perform at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, at The Union, 129 W. Benton Ave., Naperville. Mike Roe of the 77s and bassist Mark Harmon open. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Admission: $12. For details, contact nccunion.com or (630) 637-5417.\nFine art paintings: North Central features the \"Collected Works\" of Nancy Rosen, a local fine arts painter and naturalist, through Friday, Nov. 14, in the gallery at Oesterle Library, 320 E. School St., Naperville. Using her interest in fabrics and textures, Rosen paints colorful patterns and realistic portrayals of women in her artwork. For details, visit northcentralcollege.edu/show.\nSymphony orchestra concert: Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs at 8 p. …", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "On Valentine’s Day my daughter and her family went to a Maroon Five concert. Whenever I visit them, my daughter and granddaughters play music in the car that I have never heard. They know all the words by heart and sing them with gusto. So yesterday, as I was cleaning house, I created a new Pandora station called Maroon Five so I could listen to their kind of music. I’m tired of being square. If you don’t know what Pandora is (it might only be a US thing), it’s an Internet radio station with a twist. You create different “stations” by entering an artist’s name, or a group, or a song track. Pandora plays what you entered as well as other artists, groups, or songs that are similar to what you’ve chosen. Prior to yesterday, my Pandora stations were Vivaldi, Carol King, Dave Brubeck, and the like. Now I’m finally moving into the 21st Century.\nI was always a big Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel fan, and the classics “Blowing in the Wind” and “Sounds of Silence” are still haunting. I was eager to see if the music of my daughter’s and granddaughter’s generation would hold important messages on life just as the music did when I was growing up. At first, as I listened to my newly created Pandora station, I found it hard to understand many of the words. But as I was dusting, I caught the refrain of one of the songs. The only part I heard was, “We Are Young. So let’s set the world on fire. We can burn brighter than the sun.”\nSuddenly, without warning, tears stung my eyes and I had to make an effort to get ahold of myself. We were young once, too. We thought we would set the world on fire. How did the time and that vision get away from us? There I was, dust rag in hand, feeling every minute of my 64 years, sad that I had no hopes of setting the world on fire. What wonderful lyrics! I envied the young people whose song that was for, their whole lives ahead of them, dreaming of how they could change the world.\nI had to know the lyrics of that song I had never heard before. I wanted to memorize it and be able to sing it as easily as I could sing every Ian and Sylvia or Peter, Paul, and Mary song. I wanted to grasp that feeling of burning brighter than the sun. I Googled the song title and found it was sung by a group called Fun. Then I read the lyrics:\nGive me a second, I\nI need to get my story straight\nMy friends are in the bathroom\nGetting higher than the Empire State\nMy lover she is waiting for me\nJust across the bar,\nMy seat’s been taken by some sunglasses\nAsking ’bout a scar\nI know I gave it to you months ago\nI know you’re trying to forget\nBut between the drinks and subtle things\nAnd the holes in my apologies\nYou know I’m trying hard to take it back\nSo if by the time the bar closes\nAnd you feel like falling down\nI’ll carry you home\nWe are young\nSo let’s set the world on fire\nWe can burn brighter\nThan the sun\nI quickly dried my tears and started singing Dylan’s, “The Times They Are A’Changing.” Setting the world on fire is overrated anyway.\nI listen to a lot of new music, and generally shun the old stuff. It’s not that I don’t like the old stuff, but someone has to balance out my husband’s habit of only listening to oldies. 😉 I keep him up-to-date with the stuff our grandchildren are listening to, as well as new music that I know he would like if he’d only give it a listen (I haven’t been wrong yet when it comes to those picks). Now that I think about it, a lot of the new stuff is sounding like the old stuff again. (Look for Michael Kiwanuka’s song “Bones,” for instance, or give Mayer Hawthorne a listen. Fitz and The Tantrums’ song “Moneygrabber” reminds me a lot of Hall & Oates.) All that said, I hear ya on the lyrics.\nGood for you, Robin, for staying current! Thanks to Pandora and Spotify, I’m getting in the groove, too, so my granddaughters won’t think I’m so square.\nWhen I was younger, I told myself I would never let myself get behind on popular music, but of course, I have. Occasionally, I’ll hear something that catches my ear and I’ll track down the artist but my experience is similar to yours. My theory is that a lot of the popular music we love is good but not great music, but it’s tied to certain times or events in our lives. As I get older, I’m fussier and another generation’s good but not great music doesn’t cut it. There’s always great mixed in but I’m getting too old to hunt through the good to find it unless it hits me in the head.\nGreat comment, Bud. The memories certain music brings back is definitely important to me. This new stuff has no connection to me, nothing I can hang my hat on. But give me Brubeck or Cat Stevens, and I’m back in college again.\nMy oldest granddaughter likes Daughtry, and I like the few songs I’ve heard by him (and his group). He’s the third-most successful American Idol contestant. Sounds of Silence will always be a favorite of mine.\nSo your granddaughter tries to keep her granny updated, too, huh? I’m not quite as hip as you, Patti.\nSure you are!\nHahahahaha! Well, at least the chorus is decent…lol. I was driving my son and his friends to school one day when they popped in a CD that was nothing short of a porn musical. I calmly said “If you don’t turn this off I’m going to start singing and we both know no one in this car wants that memory” The faces in the rearview mirror were priceless!\nOMG, LWTTD, that was hysterical! What a smart mama!\nLOL! I can never understand the lyrics in modern music anyway. Now I don’t feel so badly about that! 🙂\nYeah, I got over my tears pretty quick when I heard the actual lyrics, Dor. Anyway, George says we did set the world on fire because we brought three beautiful kids into it. Gotta love that guy!\nI’ve never been to a concert. I have had many happy hours of listening to music from different generations. I’ve never really had a favorite band or singer per se`. However I am partial to a good beat with a good voice and touch of electronica. lol 😉\nA touch of electronically, E.C. LOL! I’ve been to quite a few concerts in my younger days. Besides Peter, Paul, and Mary and the Kingston Trio, I’ve seen the Beach Boys, Herb Alpert and the Tiajuana Brass, and Johnny Mathis, to name a few.\nAwesome. I can only imagine the fun and happy memories you have of hearing those great bands & singers in person.\nYep, I remember when the synthesizer sent the industry in a new musical direction.\nNostalgia, I tell ya, it gets me every time. 😆\nYou are seriously cracking me up, E.C.\nI think Henry James was so right “….but the old is better than any novelty.” 🙂\nI think he was old when he said that, Amy. 🙂\nI’m with Dianna. We have a radio station here that plays music from my era, songs that I understand and words that I can hear. My children and their children play music that is so different and the boys are quite rude about Granma’s music in her car. So thanks for the reminder Susan that we are all different. 🙂\nIt’s fun, though, Judith, to learn some of the same music my granddaughters like. One day I may surprise them by singing along in the car.\nYeah, well, I try not to dwell too much on the lyrics when the rhythms are so fun. It certainly gives us MANY opportunities to talk frankly about drugs, sex and rock and roll!!\nI cracked up, Ems, when I read the actual lyrics. I got over feeling sorry for myself real fast.\nMaroon Five is the first band that I heard where I understood what George meant by a tight band. They are fantastic. Another great band is One Republic. The music matches the lyrics so beautifully, it makes me feel like I’m in the middle of a break-up. http://youtu.be/qfhN0JinPrU\nGood! Another band to check out, Adela. I’ve got a lot of catching up to do…about forty years!\nI’m actually impressed that the words are that deep – “the holes in my apologies” is rather nice.\nBut give me my James Taylor anyday. And as he said, it’s more the feeling that the words anyway: “To me, the words are nice, the way they sound.”\nI guess the kids don’t really listen to the words anyway, NQO. That wasn’t the case when I was growing up.\nI LOVE Maroon 5!!! In fact, for Christmas I gave my daughter tickets to see them! I’m pretty sure she’s taking a friend and not Mom, darn it. But I love the old music, too. I say what’s wrong with still being able to set the world on fire at least a little bit?\nJulia, I think I’d like to go to a concert like that with my daughter and her family, but I think I need to learn more of that kind of music. I remember going to Peter, Paul, and Mary concerts and a Kingston Trio concert and loving them because I knew all the songs by heart.\nI’m your age and float in and out about current “popular” music. Sometimes nothing new sounds good. And then some years make you feel eighteen. Anyway try these two bands: Arcade Fire and Fountains of Wayne. Arcade Fire’s first album was in my opinion the best record of the aughts.\nThanks for the tip, Doug. I’ll stick them in Pandora and see what I think.\n*more (I hate typos!)\nI couldn’t agree ore. Just give me my Temptations, Drifters, Three Dog Night and Neil Diamond cd’s (see: I haven’t even graduated to Pandora!)!\nOh, you like the modern stuff I see, Dianna. LOL. I’m still stuck in the sixties. I cracked up when I read the lyrics of that “inspiring” song. Boy, was I ever wrong!\nWell…um…. I think the Drifters were in the 60’s, and maybe 50’s. I love anything from the 50’s, 60’s, and the first couple of years of the 70’s!\nMy son will laugh when I tell him that you said I like modern stuff. Thankfully, although he’s only 32, he loves the oldies too!\nLOL, Dianna. Guess I wasn’t a Drifters fan.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Reinhardt also had the ability to expresses an immense sense of romanticism in his playing. Nowhere is his romantic streak broader as when he and clarinetist Hubert Rostaign put together a lovely version of Reinhardt's \"Nuages. And he was a whiz at swinging the blues, as seen on \"St. Louis Blues. On this tune, working above the rhythm guitar of Louis Gaste on . Handy's blues psalm, he demonstrates the ability to put across a melody with an infectious toe-tapping rhythm. By the time the late 1940s arrive, Reinhardt is still swinging, as on \"Django's. Whether this CD qualifies as The Best of Django Reinhardt is perhaps arguable. What isn't at issue is that the album is an excellent compilation of 18 cuts and 53 minutes of music by one of the most significant European apostles of and influences on American jazz.\nDownload original 320Kbps, 17. 8 Mb, 76:27. Artist: Django Reinhardt 1996 The Best Of Django Reinhardt. Money online! Converting/Cutting.\nThe Definitive Django. Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli, Freddy Taylor. The Immortal Django Reinhardt. 2015 Bonus Track Version. The Best Of Django Reinhardt: Quintette Du Hot Club De France.\nThe Best of Django Reinha. has been added to your Cart. On this disc Blue Note presents a superb collection of some of Django Reinhardt's greatest recordings. Mostly from the 1930's (more specifically 1936-1948) the sound quality of this album is astonishing; the loving remastering they got for this release must be heard to be appreciated. I am not a particular fan of jazz, though I love great musicianship and am a student of the guitar in all genres. There can be no doubt that Reinhardt was an amazingly talented writer and performer and was one of the early jazz guitar greats, and I am thrilled to own this collection.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "L.A Woman, the last album the band recorded with the late, great Jim Morrison, was The Doors’ sixth and most consistent since their self-titled debut.\n‘See me change’ barks Morrison on the title track, ‘The Changeling’, something he had done with his persona throughout the band’s career and complete with awful beard, this might have been his finest transformation (apart from said facial hair).\n‘Love Her Madly’ has the band in its most infectious, blues infused mood; and ‘Been Down So Long’ is a gritty, jazz stomp (awfully sampled by Chase and Status), and with ‘LA Woman’ and ‘Riders on the Storm’ the band created two songs that encapsulate the spirit of their enigmatic front man.\nThis is an album that demonstrated everything that was so great about The Doors. Original, classic, sometimes overblown rock and roll songs that gave Jim Morrison a platform for his wide ranging vocals and powerful lyrics.\nIt is quite fitting that it was to be the last album they made and the band, or more to the point, Morrison, certainly went out on a high.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Concert for Prader-Willi Syndrome Association – Pavel Šporcl\n- Antonio Vivaldi Sinfonia in C for Strings and Cembalo\n- Fritz Kreisler Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in style of Vivaldi\n- Johann Sebastian Bach Concert A minor for Two Violins and Orchestra\n- Antonio Vivaldi \"Summer\" - Concert for Violin and Orchestra from The Four Seasons\n- Antonín Dvořák Serenade in E major for Strings\n- Pavel Šporcl, violin\n- Leoš Čepický, concertmaster\nPavel Šporcl graduated from the Prague Conservatory and the Faculty of Music at the Academy of Performing Arts under Professor Václav Snítil. From 1991 to 1996, he studied in the United States at prestigious schools and universities under the guidance of excellent educators Dorothy De Lay, Itzhak Perlman, Masa Kawasaki, and Dr. Eduard Schmieder. Pavel Šporcl has been triumphantly received by audiences in major music venues throughout the world thanks to the combination of a rich classical background and unique unorthodox stage presence. He has appeared with major orchestras like National Orchestra de France, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra or New World Symphony Orchestra and also at prestigious venues such as Suntory Hall Tokyo, Disney Hall Los Angeles, Alte Oper Frankfurt am Main, Concertgebow Amsterdam. Pavel Šporcl has performed with leading conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Libor Pešek, Jiří Bělohlávek, Vladimir Fedosejev, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Andris Nelsons, Jiří Kout, Serge Baudo, Colin Davis. He is a frequent guest on television shows and radio programs.He teaches violin at the Faculty of Music at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.\nHe graduated at the Conservatorium in Pardubice and at the Academy of Music Arts in Prague. He won many international competitions, e.g. in Zagreb (Croatia) and in Gorizia (Italy). He frequently gives solo recitals as well as concerts with orchestras, both in the Czech Republic and also abroad. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of J. S. Bach’s death in 2000 he performed a series of concerts of all Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for violin solo at the Smetana’s Festival in Litomyšl. In 2002 he made a Multisonic solo CD recording of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas. Since 2007 he works as a professor of violin at the Academy of Music Arts in Prague and in September 2010 he was appointed as a head of a string department of the Academy of Music in Prague. During his studies at AMU he became the first violinist of the Wihan Quartet and he still remains a member of this quartet. As a member of the Wihan Quartet he won the Prague Spring Award in 1988 and also the International Competition of the String Quartets in London in 1991. In 2008 – 2009 the Wihan Quartet performed all 16 Quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven. Leoš Čepický plays a violin from the workshop of violin master Jan B. Špidlen, copy of Guarneri del Gesù from 1741.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Keep up with the Best Events in\nand nearby with our monthly digest\n#schranz, hard techno, hardtechno, techno, electronic\nConcertWith.Me is a resale marketplace. Ticket prices may be above or below face value.\nMatthias a.k.a. FL-X was born in 1983 near Berlin, Germany. Being very interested in music he started making music with the guitar and the e-guitar. But his heart had always been beating for electronic music. In 1999 he started producing tracks on his own, although he had no idea how to do so, and no one had told him, he made music that was settled between Trance and Hardstyle. In 2001 he visited the Tresor where he was confronted with Techno for the first time. This monotone and hard music fascinated him so much that he changed his style of music", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tonight on 60 minutes a story ran about a young man that an amazing savant ability to play the Piano. Derek Paravicini is Blind, Autistic, and considered to be severely learning disabled. Yet he can play Piano with unbelievable precision. Music Theory......Music Therapy...... not much difference is there?\nI watched it Leslie...It was AWESOME. What I found the most amazing was his ability to come up with any piece requested in any key and in any style....WOW!!!! Now you know he was standing in the right line when it came to talent!!!!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Classical music still has time to save itself from extinction. But how can the art form I love avoid the fate of the dinosaur and the dodo?\nFirst, it must admit it still has a diversity problem; second, it must aggressively remedy that problem.\nThe difficulty with that plan of action? Classical music in the United States purposefully avoided diversification for so many years.\nLet’s look at the history:\nClassical music was once part of popular culture. Paganini and Liszt were rock stars in their days. Even in the early 20th century, classical music was featured in the “Bell Telephone Hour” on NBC and in Looney Tunes cartoons. Disney’s...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Zac Brown Band Deliver New Tunes on ‘Saturday Night Live’ [Watch]\nZac Brown Band appeared as the musical guest on the March 7 episode of Saturday Night Live, performing not one, but two songs from their upcoming album Jekyll + Hyde. Actor Chris Hemsworth (Thor) hosted the show, which was packed with humorous skits.\nBut it was the country band who kicked things off with their most recent single, \"Homegrown.\" With lyrics like: \"I got some good friends, that live down the street / Got a good lookin’ woman with her arms ‘round me / Live in a small town where it feels like home / I got everything I need and nothing that I don’t / Homegrown, homegrown,\" the nostalgic song encourages listeners to fondly recall their favorite memories of home. The seven-piece band played the catchy medley in front of a packed audience — something they've gotten very comfortable with over the past several years.\nIn addition, the group also performed \"Heavy Is the Head\" with Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell. The hard-rocking song featured plenty of heavy rock music, gritty lyrics and electrical guitar riffs. It's a sound departure from ZBB's more easygoing, laid-back tunes, but it demonstrates the breadth of their musical capacity. As the folksy country music group continues to mature, they are pushing themselves to impressive new heights. Fans who love their unique talent will enjoy watching them branch out and explore new styles of music.\nJekyll + Hyde will be released on April 28. For more information about Zac Brown Band's upcoming album and tour dates, click here.\nWatch ZBB and Chris Cornell Perform \"Heavy Is the Head\" on SNL\nSee Zac Brown + More Stars' Yearbook Photos", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mondriaan Jazz Festival\nPiet Mondriaan’s love for jazz music inspired his work and spawned a new era in art. Mondriaan Jazz Festival is Piet’s artistic approach remixed into a cutting edge music festival. All performing artists are handpicked straight out of Mondriaan’s fictitious but deep record bag. The common denominator? They all adhere to Mondriaan’s mantra of exploration and experimentation. Labels like ‘young’, ‘old’, ‘famous’ or ‘unknown’ become irrelevant at Mondriaan Jazz Festival. Only thing that counts is: The Style.\nOn October 7 and 8, Paard and will be filled to the brim with cutting edge performers who push boundaries and smash dogmas.CHECK OUT THE LINE-UP", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Downeaster Alexa - Philly in July?\nHave no idea how this works... Just a simple note that I will be bringing my 9 year old twin boys to their first concert in Philly in July. They have become Joel fans through my wife and I. Its started during a traffic jam heading to the NJ shore a couple years ago when we exhausted our Billy Joel collection on them. They liked the music and the song Downeaster Alexa was and still is their favorite overall tune. They giggle when they ask our \"Alexa\" to play it for them. I have been coming to the shows the last few years and surprisingly 2 years ago that song made the play list. Just looking to see if we could get that on the play list again? I know its not a super popular song but we all enjoy it. Not looking for any dedications or anything like that... just to see if that song could make the short list.... if not not worries... Always a great show no matter what!!!!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Summer Solstice Dinner with Live Music by Laura Lamb\nLive music with Laura Lamb and an exclusive buffet dinner of charcoal chicken & fixings catered by Chicken Chasers. Cocktail hour at 5pm. Dinner and music at 6pm. Featuring their new Shooting Star wine. Rain or shine - dinner will commence in The Loft if inclement weather.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hospital Records’ award-winning podcast, hosted by Degs with the occasional guest takeovers from the Hospital roster. Bringing you the freshest music the drum & bass and jungle scene has to offer!\nFor episode 455 of the Hospital Podcast, we've got the one and only Grafix in the mix! Get locked for a heated selection of fresh music and legendary D&B cuts\nLike the episode on your phone\nDownload Free Podcast App\nPlay this podcast on Podbean App", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Artiste Name: Nasty C\n- Song Name: Release Me\n- Genre: Hip Hop\n- Album Name: I Love It Here Album (Track: 4)\n- Released: 2023\nNasty C – Release Me Mp3 Download Audio\nSouth African highly talented and exceptional Hip Hop artiste, Nasty C has released an impressive song with the titled Release Me for music lovers worldwide.\nIncluded in the impressive project ‘I Love It Here Album‘ “Release Me” stands out as track 4. Each song on this album is a testament to Nasty C‘s talent and creativity, making it a remarkable musical experience from start to finish.\nDownload below and Enjoy!\nWhat do you think about this song?\nWe want to hear from you all, Drop your comments", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Who should attend\nIndividuals who want a practical foundation in professional audio production, including those that want to enter or advance in the field.\nAbout the course\nDevelop Your Audio Engineering Skills\nWhen you marvel at the sound of the latest hit song, popular video game or Hollywood blockbuster film, you are enjoying the work of audio engineers. These sound wizards use cutting-edge tools and technologies to produce audio that enthralls and entertains us in a variety of ways.\nIn this three-course certificate program, you’ll explore the technical principles and creative skills required to complete professional sound projects. We’ll study the basics of editing, mixing, storage media and the mastering process. You’ll get experience with acoustics, microphones and analog and digital recording, and you'll apply your knowledge to create a pro-quality audio project for music or film.\nWHAT YOU'LL LEARN\n- The physics and terminology of sound\n- Elements of sound production, including signal processing, MIDI and synchronization\n- Techniques for multi-track recording and overdubs\n- Software-based production techniques to create digital audio files\n- Complete a music production or film/video post-production project\n- Practice in a professional sound studio and learn to use sophisticated audio recording software, including Pro Tools\n- Take field trips to local sound studios\n- Participate in special Saturday sessions on plug-ins and location sound for film and video\nScot Charles is an award-winning sound designer and engineer. He’s worked as a location sound mixer on feature films, documentaries and commercials, as well as an audio post-studio mixer. Over his career, he’s done live concert mixing for such notables as Sarah Vaughan, Tower of Power, Bobby McFe...\nScott Colburn is considered one of Seattle's most versatile producers. His credits span projects as diverse as Mudhoney's heavy rock, Sun City Girls' Cloaven Theatre, the avant-garde sounds of Climax Golden Twins, the ethnic modern classical stylings of Black Cat Orchestra, the reggae of Winston ...\nDavid Miles Huber has written such books as the industry standard text Modern Recording Techniques, The MIDI Manual and Professional Microphone Techniques. He's also a producer and musician in the chill and downtempo genres; his CDs have sold over the million mark. His latest music and collaborat...\nVideos and materials\nBecause of COVID-19, many providers are cancelling or postponing in-person programs or providing online participation options.\nWe are happy to help you find a suitable online alternative.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Phil Coulter, Ireland's ambassador of music, captivates a live crowd at Belfast's Grand Opera House in this heartwarming concert performance, intercut with Coulter's videos. He presents many of his favorites, including \"Meeting of the Waters,\" \"The Town I Loved So Well\" and \"Spinning Wheel.\" Coulter's moving music is enhanced by gorgeous scenery of the Irish countryside. Special guest performers include Ralph McTell and Maura O'Connell.\nWhen cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col.\nA retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and future.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Time This event has already ended!\n- Date: Mar 6, 2023\n- Time: 6:00 pm - 12:00 am\nJoin us in celebrating Bob Wills' Birthday Ball with a concert and dance!\nJody Nix & The Texas Cowboys, along with The Western Flyers, will perform live at The Texan in Athens on Monday, Mar. 6. BBQ and a full bar will be available for purchase. Tickets cost $35, with doors opening at 6 p.m. and live music and dancing starting at 7 p.m.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Florida R&B Bands\nBrowse and compare 401 professional Florida R&B Bands and R&B Bands who will travel to Florida to perform at your event.\nGigmasters Band Samuel Bullock & The Soul Alliance Band are a mix band that can play practically anything. They have been influenced by singers such as Michael Buble, Paul Davis, Peoboe Bryson, Brian McKnight, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson, Prince, and songs by the Eagles, Journey, and other pop stars.\nBand can range from as little as 4 pieces all the way up to a 13 piece orchestra. For ...\nHome-based in the heart of tourism, Orlando, Florida, Silkee Smoove has successfully evolved into one of the East Coast's premier Corporate/Wedding/Party/entertainment packages. Created to appeal to large and diverse audiences, Silkee Smoove's extensive repertoire embraces the very best of Smooth Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Funk, Classic Soul,and Motown. The chemistry between members comes from ...\nThe members of NIGHTLY BLUES have played together, at different times and in different configurations for over 20 years. As fate would have it they were all available in 2009 to create their own singular style of blues music. NIGHTLY BLUES is a tight, solid band that has a lot to offer the people that hire them and the ones that come to hear and see them perform. Between the contemporary Blues...\nWhat's the difference between FAST LANE and other bands?\nNo matter how large or small your event and/or venue, FAST LANE will perform with the same passion and intensity during each and every performance. FAST LANE blends musical styles into an explosion of funky grooviness that keeps dancers on the floor till last call.\nSCOTT FREE emerged from the Northeast in a full fury of musical ide...\nSelf-contained with sound & lights, Soul Funktion is a ten piece, Rhythm and Blues dance band with three dynamic front singers,\nour mighty four piece rhythm section and our three(or six!)piece Hurricane Horn section. We can also help to MC your event and we're very accommodating to the needs of our clients. In fact, when we perform at wedding receptions we notice that the bride and groom lik...\n\"PAPA JACK EXPRESS\"\nTHE BEST-KEPT SECRET IN ORLANDO\nAfter extended tours with Wilson Pickett,\nThe Isley Brothers, Sam & Dave and many other notable artists, Papa Jack formed the group in 2008.\nWe take great pride in our styles of music, which is uniquely suited to our clients' needs. Styles includes Smooth Jazz, R & B, Reggae, 70s Dance Music, Soft Dinner Music & Good Old Rock & Roll.\nMy shows can include accompaniment ranging from a pianist, strings or a 7 piece band, up to full orchestra or simply pre-recorded CD/Ipod tracks and with over 220 songs to choose from in just about every genre, we can create a performance that suites your vision and budget.\n“My hometown is Anniston, Alabama. There, I grew up watching my dad singing with gospel groups. When I was in elementa...\nSheba, also known as, Sheba the Mississippi Queen, and her band are a double barrel of musical entertainment. The band takes the stage with years of musical experience. They get the crowd ready for some fun and dancing. When Sheba takes the stage, she commands and wins the hearts of men and women alike.\nWhen you hear Sheba's voice, you hear the influences of Billy Holiday, Etta James, Tina Tu...\nMeet GYPSY LANE, South Florida's PREMIERE VARIETY PARTY SHOW BAND. What makes this band special, besides seeing them all hyped on stage (I mean nobody stands still) are their deep roots in PARTY music. The original members were the backing musicians for such groups as the VILLAGE PEOPLE, RITCHIE FAMILY, INSTANT FUNK etc, which were some of the great party bands of the era. After going separate...\nRated the Number one top Cover Band on gigmasters in the Tampa Bay Area and Florida. So do you want to create excitement at your party? Do you want your guests dancing all night long? Do you want an event that people will talk about for years to come? Then Funk Monster Band is your only solution!\nFunk Monster Band is a 7 or 8 piece ensemble with a very simple philosophy: Use high energ...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "World Music Day 2023\nWorld Music Day, also referred to as Fête de la Musique, is a yearly commemoration held on June 21st that advocates for the influence of music and its universal ability to connect people. The occasion encourages musicians from diverse genres to showcase their talents in public areas, fostering a lively and inclusive ambiance for individuals worldwide to appreciate music. On this unique day, musicians and music enthusiasts from all corners of the globe unite to perform and revel in a wide array of musical genres.\nWorld Music Day 2023 Theme\nThe theme of World Music Day 2023 is yet to be released, you can acquaint yourself with the theme of the previous year. The theme of World Music Day 2022 was “Music on the intersections.” This theme was about finding and appreciating music at the intersectional level.\nWorld Music Day 2023 Importance\nWorld Music Day, also known as Fête de la Musique, is a global celebration that occurs annually on June 21st. It holds great importance as a day devoted to the universal language of music, promoting peace, unity, and cultural diversity, all of which play a vital role in everyone’s lives. Musicians from various genres and backgrounds across the globe come together to share their passion and talent through concerts, street performances, and events. World Music Day encourages the appreciation of diverse musical styles, fostering connections between different cultures and creating a sense of belonging. It symbolizes the transformative power of music to transcend boundaries, unite people, and spread joy, making it a truly remarkable and meaningful observance.\nWorld Music Day History\nThe origins of World Music Day can be traced back to 1982 when Jack Lang, the French Minister of Culture, proposed the concept of celebrating a day dedicated to music, known as Fête de la Musique or the festival of music. However, there is another theory suggesting that the celebration dates back to 1976 when Joel Cohen proposed an all-night music festival to commemorate the summer solstice. Regardless, the inaugural World Music Day festivities took place in Paris in 1982, featuring over 1,000 musicians performing across various parts of the city. Since then, musicians have taken to the streets, parks, and concert venues to play and share their passion for music on this special occasion.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "List of awards and nominations received by Shakira\nShakira is a Colombian singer and songwriter. She began her career in 1990 with Sony Music and has been the most popular Latin act in the world since the mid-1990s. Shakira has sold over 75 million records worldwide.\nShe has won 326 awards from 717 nominations including 3 Grammy Awards and 12 Latin Grammy Awards, making her the most awarded Latin artist of all time.\nIn 2002, Shakira won \"Best Music Video for \"Suerte\" at the Latin Grammy Awards. In 2003, Shakira won four awards from eleven nominations, including Echo Award for Best International Female Artist and World Music Awards for Best Selling Latin Female Artist. In 2005, Shakira won sixteen awards from twenty two nominations, including American Music Awards for Best Latin Artist, Best Female at 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards and three Billboard Music Awards.\nIn 2006, Shakira won thirty two awards from fifty nominations, including Grammy Awards for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album, American Music Awards for Favorite Latin Artist, six Latin Billboard Music Awards for \"La Tortura\" for Latin Ringtone of the Year, Latin Pop Airplay Song of the Year - Duo or Group, Hot Latin Song of the Year, Hot Latin Song of the Year-Vocal Duet or Collaboration, Spirit of the Hope and Latin Pop Album-Female, four Latin Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year for \"La Tortura\", Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album, Female for Fijación Oral Vol. 1.\nShakira released her sixth studio album She Wolf, in October 2009, featuring the first single \"She Wolf\". In 2009, Shakira won Best International Pop Artist of the Year at 51st Bambi Awards. In 2010, Shakira has won two Billboard Music Awards from five nominations and six Billboard Latin Music Awards from thirteen nominations and World best Selling Latin American artist of the year at 2010 World Music Awards. In 2020 she received her first Emmy Award nomination, becoming the first South-American act in history to be nominated at the Grammy Awards, Latin Grammys, Golden Globes and Emmy Awards.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hastings Radio Presenter and Podcaster Andy Gunton recently recorded three shows which brought together some of the best music from one of the most influential years in music. I thought that all three episodes should be presented together……so here goes.\nEpisodes One and Two were recorded for Hastings Rock Radio Station and obviously present rock music from the year but in Episode Three Andy has gone in to explore other great tracks from 1971 in different genres.\nThese are excellent shows brought together by an excellent presenter. Settle back and enjoy a nostalgic journey back through time to 1971. All you need is a bottle of Blue Nun and a serving of Black Forest Gateau and you could almost be there.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Whatever your age, Whatever your talent - We have a class for you\nWelcome to Beat 87 Dance Academy!\nWe are a dance school located in Croydon offering a range of dance styles including:\n- Adult Classes\n- Wedding Dances\nOur classes are fun, friendly and family oriented. We have a small community environment and feel in which all students are supported and encouraged to achieve their absolute best.\nStudio Address: 33 Kent Avenue, Croydon, Victoria 3136 | 0404083718", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "\"Let us reflect on the old, it will be progress,\" Giuseppe Verdi wrote in a letter in 1871. The \"old\", always up-to-date, is represented by father Johann Sebastian and son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Their works have to do with the most powerful flutist in European history, Frederick II, King of Prussia.\nPhilipp Emanuel's Trio Sonata from 1745 will be played by the musicians of the DSO Berlin on Baroque instruments and in the lower tuning customary at the time, while their father's work from the \"Musical Offering\" will be played on modern oboe and in today's tuning - an interesting comparison.\nInspired by the old to progress were Ingolf Dahl and Manuel de Falla. Dahl, after emigrating to the U.S. in 1939, was one of the original, more quiet voices in the classical-oriented scene on the American West Coast. His Concerto a Tre will be played. De Falla's Chamber Concerto for harpsichord and five other instruments is a little gem of a master for whom the preoccupation with the old elicited new ideas.\n- Chamber Music Encounters with Members of the German Symphony Orchestra BerlinConcert with concert introduction in the Gothic Hall at the Citadel\n- Pre-concert optional from 6:00 p.m. | Concert introduction by Habakuk Traber | Duration 35 minutes\nCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach Bach, Sonata in C Major, Wq 149 for flute, violin and basso continuo.Ingolf Dahl (1912-1970), Concerto a tre for clarinet, violin and cello\nJohann Sebastian Bach, Trio Sonata BWV 1079 from the \"Musical Offering\", flute, oboe and continuoManuel de Falla, harpsichord concerto\nThis event will take place subject to the current regulations of the State of Berlin. In case of cancellation, purchased tickets will be automatically refunded. For current information, please visit www.kulturhaus-spandau.de\nZitadelle Spandau(Gotischer Saal)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "KristeNicole - When Jesus Spoke\nWhen Jesus Spoke\n10 Mar 2023\nCountry Music Singer KristeNicole Releases 'When Jesus Spoke'\nFrom the Cradle Of Country Music in the hills of East Tennessee comes singer/songwriter KristeNicole who mixes both modern and traditional styles to create her own unique sound that you’re sure to love. Her brand new single…\nCountry Music singer/songwriter KristeNicole, from East Tennessee, mixes modern and traditional styles in her own unique sound. Her brand new single 'When Jesus Spoke' has just been released and Louder Than The Music chatted with…", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "http://notlobmusic.blogspot.com reports and reflects on news that affects the traditional / revival / labor / social justice folk, old-time, bluegrass and Celtic music communities in the greater Boston area.\n\"In this era of pop-driven acoustic music, notloB is keeping the folk tradition alive.\"\n~ Jack Hardy\nMonday, June 11, 2007\nRose Polenzani & Sharon Lewis, \"Kings and Queens\" tour, Wednesday, June 20\nWednesday, June 20, 2007. Doors 7:00pm, concert 7:30pm\nAfter touring the world and releasing 4 albums as one half of the brilliant female duo Pooka, UK songwriter Sharon Lewis is now performing songs from her debut solo album The Hour Lilies. Previous tours in the UK, USA and Europe have seen her accompanying acts such as Everything But The Girl, Kristen Hersh, The Levellers and Al Stewart, in addition to intensive headline tours throughout France, Italy and the UK. Accompanied by piano and guitar Sharon's songs are classic and soulful. Her performances have been described as \"remarkably intimate with melodies that turn you inside out\". Sharon has recently sung with legendary dance act The Chemical Brothers and also collaborated with artists such as Orbital, Ultramarine and Rob Ellis of PJ Harvey. Produced, composed and recorded by Sharon, The Hour Lilies is a home spun record featuring a very fine collection of gentle and original songs.\nRose Polenzani was raised in the Chicago area and attended Knox College before leaving to pursue a singing career. Her singing style is distinctive and emotionally charged. She plays guitar and, less frequently, piano. Her lyrics often consist of rich blends of obscure images and emotions. Rose has performed in Lilith Fair in 1998, and the Sundance Film Festival in 1999. She has opened for the Indigo Girls, David Gray, Vic Chesnutt, Patty Griffin, Joan Baez, Jonatha Brooke, and Shawn Colvin. She has been reviewed positively in the Utne Reader, BUST Magazine, and the Boston Globe. Rose performed as part of Voices on the Verge, a collaborative musical project with Beth Amsel, Jess Klein, and Erin McKeown. Voices on the Verge toured together in 2001 and 2002 and released a live album, Voices on the Verge: Live In Philadelphia on the Rykodisc label. In 2004, Polenzani toured with Sharon Lewis of the British band Pooka, whom she cites as a major musical influence.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "While many wide-eyed young musicians set out for Nashville, singer-songwriter Garrison Starr\nbegan her career on the grittier yet just as vital streets of Memphis. Her early success might be credited to \"Superhero,\" a jangly pop hit that earned nationwide appreciation, but it's Starr's Southern-spitfire stage presence that keeps fans coming back. With a warm smile and quick wit, Starr chats up the audience between her confessional (but often straight-up rocking) songs. Starr's truest talent lies in her songwriting, so it'll be a pleasure to see her perform with equally talented tale-spinner (and Old 97's heartthrob) Rhett Miller.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "\"If you think of a piece of music as a rubberband - I like to try and stretch it. Let's say melancholy in one end and humor in the other, and see how far you can take it. Bringing oppositions together.\" - Mikkel Hess\nThe brainchild of multi-instrumentalist and composer Mikkel Hess, Hess Is More currently exists as a six-piece orchestra of New York musicians, with the group's classically handsome leader pulling quadruple duty as drummer, conductor, bass player, and singer. Their actually-original sound could be described as technically-proficient worldly funky jazz that accomplishes quite a lot; mainly, it's clever without being boring and dancey without being dull.\nBorn in Denmark, Mikkel Hess puttered about on various instruments while growing up, picked up a classical music education in Copenhagen, and delved into computer-based music while tucked away in Rio a decade back. New Yorkers might remember the band from their recent Nublu residency, where they paired artists with their own live music sets, or shows at Union Pool and Cameo Gallery, as well as chichi afterparties for art happenings.\nAbroad, Hess is More has collaborated with the Royal Danish Ballet, played Istanbul and Moscow, and worked with tons of artists who are actually interesting. When not busying himself with band duties, Hess has scored many a film and composed music for Danish theatrical performances of \"The Wind and the Willows\" and \"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead\" at The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.\nThe latest Hess is More record, \"Creation Keeps the Devil Away,\" came out in October of 2011 and features a guest appearance by Nomi Ruiz, the frontwoman of Jessica 6, which makes it pretty much the coolest.\n1. Would You Like to Disco? (live at Spot Festiva)\n2. In The Fridge (live in Denmark)\n3. Ssshhhh (live in Denmark)\n4. Piano Waltz (with Chat Roulette as part of the Hess Is More Residency performance art series)\n5. Go Go Go Go (live in Denmark)\nFind out more about Hess Is More here", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Várady, Julia (b Oradea, 1941). Hungarian-born soprano. Cluj State Opera 1960–70; Frankfurt 1970–2; Munich from 1972. Débuts: Brit. (Edinburgh Fest.) 1974 (with Scottish Opera as Gluck's Alcestis); Salzburg Fest. 1976; NY Met 1978; CG 1992. Outstanding Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito and other dramatic roles. Created Cordelia in Reimann's Lear (Munich 1978). Sings sop. role in Britten's War Requiem.\nMore From encyclopedia.com\nEmma Calve , Calvé (Rosa-Noémie) Emma [ Emma Calvet de roquer] (b Decazeville, 1858; d Millau, 1942). Fr. soprano particularly noted for perf. as Carmen. Début Br… Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin , Chaliapin, Fyodor (Ivanovich) [ Fyodor Shalyapin] (b Kazan, 1873; d Paris, 1938). Russ. bass. Of humble orig., having little mus. training before joi… Marilyn Horne , Horne, Marilyn Opera singer Marilyn Horne has become one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated opera singers, despite her decision to concentrat… Vincenzo Bellini , Bellini, Vincenzo Bellini, Vincenzo Bellini, Vincenzo, famous Italian composer, a master of bel canto opera; b. Catania, Sicily, Nov. 3, 1801; d. Put… Jane Eaglen , Jane Eaglen Opera singer For the Record… Selected discography Sources A premier dramatic soprano since the 1980s, Jane Eaglen has thrilled audiences… Jerry Hadley , Hadley, Jerry Opera singer With his boyish charm, boundless energy, and supreme gift for phrasing, American opera singer Jerry Hadley spent his life…\nAbout this article\nUpdated About encyclopedia.com content Print Article\nYou Might Also Like", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Listen to Ganpati Ki Sewa online. Ganpati Ki Sewa is a Hindi language song and is sung by Anup Jalota, Suresh Wadkar, Sudesh Bhosle, and more. Ganpati Ki Sewa, from the album Deva Ho Deva Vol. 2, was released in the year 2013. The duration of the song is 10:13. Download Hindi songs online from JioSaavn.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ya Salam Ya Jillina Belly Dance Music CD\nAn Excellent CD with 10 tracks of great belly dancing music by George Fadel.\nIncludes 4 outstanding drum solos. Produced by ISB and George Fadel especially for belly dancers.\n1. Zaye el Hawa\n2. Drum Solo\n4. Drum Solo 2\n6. Mabrook Alena\n7. Drum Solo\n8. Khabaren eh\n9. Drumo Solo 3\nOnly the very best music from The International Academy of Middle Eastern Dance!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "''Slim Shady became a metaphor for the trappings of fame for me. For example, in the song \"When I'm Gone\" I say, \"Shady made me / But tonight Shady's rock-a-bye baby.\" And the chorus goes, \"When I'm gone / Just carry on / Don't mourn / Rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice.\" I was basically saying, I don't want this life anymore. I liked having Slim Shady around, but he'd become so famous that it had damn near destroyed my family.'' - Eminem\n''THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG''\n(click on the image)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fly With Me\nThere is something about a Victor Birkan performance that is so graphic, so pleasing to the\nsenses; he plays with a passion and a tale to tell, and does so with such a\ndramatic flourish, especially on this latest single entitled Fly With Me.\nBirkan is a masterful pianist, one who simply demands to be\nlistened to, and once the senses are opened, he takes you on a musical voyage\nthrough the medium of his solo piano performance like no other.\nFly With Me is a full flowing piano presentation\nthat allows us the listeners to be swept up in its drama and intrigue, it gifts\nus the moment of inventing the narrative to accompany the music, and manifests\na passionate performance that is simply undeniable.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "You are viewing\nAshland KY Ballet Dancers\nHow do they do it... how do those ballet dancers dance on their tippy-toes without falling right over!? I know... we're quite impressed, too. With intense training and practice, ballet dancers can turn extremely difficult and strenuous dance moves into something that's so smooth and graceful. Add the perfect touch of elegance to your next event by hiring one of these talented ballet dancers. Search for Ballet Dancers in Ashland, Kentucky above.\nPlease note that these Ballet Dancers may also travel to Cannonsburg, Coal Grove, Flatwoods, Russell, Catlettsburg, Argillite, Ironton, Raceland, Worthington, Kenova, South Point, Ceredo, Wurtland, Rock Camp, Rush, Music, Greenup, Kitts Hill, Haverhill, Denton, Chesapeake, Franklin Furnace, Pedro, Shoals, Prichard, Grayson, Lavalette, Willow Wood, Hitchins, and Proctorville.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Morgan was raised in music.\nHer mother, step-father, father, and step-mother are all professional musicians.\nHer rhythm comes from her father and step-mother. They are both drummers.\nHer love of singing comes from her mother who has fronted various local cover\nbands for almost 40 years, the most recent being, the local rock band, Sweet Justice.\nMorgan attended Berklee College of Music for two years after high school, and\nfinished her Bachelor of Arts in Music Degree at Virginia Commonwealth University.\nWhile she was finishing her degree, she played every weekend\nas a solo act or with her band that she fronted, managed and booked herself.\nShe has been a private music teacher for 6 years now.\nShe currently teaches privately, performs around Virginia every weekend.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Stuck in a Cults-like Trance\nGive me the big show. When it comes to a live musical performance, I always want the big show. The greeting. The city salutation. The witty banter. Comments on the venue. The running dialogue. The background on what the song is about. The “we were in L.A. last night and the crowd here tonight is definitely louder than last night” bit. The impromptu jump into the crowd OR the planned jump on to stage-set speakers. The call and response. The encouragement also known as “feel free to sing this song with us if you know the words!” I call it: the big show.\nNow, the big show doesn’t have to be all those things. The big show can be subtle, humble, and true to the band. It should serve as a way for the audience to connect to the music through the performers. The big show doesn’t always have to include fancy pyrotechnics or multiple confetti guns, lest you think I bring a Flaming Lips-only / Wayne Coyne-and-thousands of red balloons-on Halloween bias to the table. What I always like about a live performance is the fact that it’s unique. There is something to be said for raw talent but I also believe there is something to be said for engaging a crowd when it comes to a live performance. I believe the big show should match the band and should get the audience closer to the music and to the performers.\nThat’s what keeps me coming back for more- the charisma. The fact that I’ve seen something unique at a show makes for a great story and often makes me a fan of the band enough to buy tickets for their next event. What I’ve always liked about a show is that it’s different than pressing play or putting needle to wax. I believe music is a deeply personal experience and a live act can breathe life in to the music to which you feel so connected.\nThe first time I saw Cults play the Fillmore, it was a pleasant surprise. I was going to see a sold out show. At the time, the headlining band was, in the words of Jacobin Magtu, “so hot right now.” (Needless to say, I haven’t heard much from that band since.) Cults opening for said band were a breath of fresh air. I loved every minute of it. The band was coming off commercial success (no pun intended as of today) with “Go Outside” but their entire set proved they could sing and play instruments to hold their own. Not to mention, several of the songs have xylophone and I totally dig that.\nI was looking forward to seeing Cults at The Fillmore this year. It would mark the third time I’ve seen them perform and this time, I believed that with their touring schedule and second album, “Static”, The Fillmore would show just how much the band has progressed in musical style and performance.\nThe Fillmore was pretty empty by the time I witnessed the second opener. I was a bit surprised to see the sparse crowd but I remained optimistic, regardless of the audience. The stage boasted an elaborate set-up of flat screen TVs and a soon-to-be colorful light show juxtaposed against an almost completely dark stage. A light, white fog preempted the band as they took to their mics. The medium-sized crowd was ready and upon the first song, a small group within the crowd became fanatical and possessed. The beginning of the set included a mix of new songs off “Static” like “High Road”, “Were Before”, and “I Can Hardly Make You Mine”, punctuated with songs from their first, self-titled album like “Abducted”, “Never Heal Myself”, and “Never Saw the Point”. The set-list spanned old and new songs and the most I enjoyed Madeline Follin was when she belted out the verses. Follin can truly sing and, if you enjoy the albums, you will notice she doesn’t require any auto-tuning, unnecessary or required. I only wish that Follin would have had the opportunity to belt out more of the songs. Follin’s strong and lovely voice was a bit lost in the loud, darker guitar riffs that make up the new songs off “Static” and that foamed off the amps at The Fillmore. Seemingly uncomfortable with constant glances at Gabriel Rodriguez, on keys, xylophone, and guitar, Follin only said ‘thank you’ quietly between songs. Brian Oblivion, who spent most of the show covered by his long flowing (dare I say envious?) locks, said little, if anything at all.\nThe show went by quickly and only before “Rave On” was played did the band do a bit where they paused during a song’s bridge. It was a nice attempt. But needless to say, I wanted more. I wanted much more. Follin and Oblivion are talented, there is no denying that. And based on interviews I’ve seen, they can be sweet and funny. There were fans at the show that were very into the psychedelic soulfulness of the music: singing all the words, jumping with fists and hands waving, all while swaying to the music. But, I kept wondering: where was the big show? Actually, where was the show?\nCults took the stage for a brief encore that ended with “Go Outside”. As I attempted to take a decent photo in between the small group of hardcore fans at the front of the un-barricaded stage, I still wanted more. I wanted more from both Follin and Oblivion; the kind of showcase that took me past the psychedelic soulful trance the albums put me in. I wanted to see a performance that got me excited to see the band again. A performance that would garner a religious following. Sadly, I had to settle for the colorful lights and a small glimpse of Madeline Follin’s voice. From now on, it will have to be the trance of Cults’ albums that will keep me engaged. And for the small group of die-hard fans singing every word and covering my camera with your swaying hands: you win.\n*all uses of the term ‘psychedelic soul’ are credited to my editor, the wonderful Dakin Hardwick.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Brandon Dingler-Lead Vocals, Mike Oz Osborn-Bass, Reese Sanchez-Lead guitar, Jeff Keogh-Lead Guitar, Dale Spencer-Drums\nSHYNER has been performing live for about 3 years now and have come to be known around the Kansas/ Oklahoma music scene as a force to be reckoned with. When we started SHYNER, the choice was made to concentrate on a hard rock sound with classic rock/ metal hooks. Venue owners have all noticed and pointed out our ability to draw and hold a crowds attention while on stage. In the last couple of years we’ve introduced more of our own original music into our set and have had great response from our audiences. Our original music is just great listener friendly Rock-n-Roll that makes you want to move. Members of the band come from a wide variety of musical backgrounds - from classically trained music conservatory grads to touring musicians from swing and rock bands with 1000’s of hours stage experience. We present a high energy show.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Wednesdays 9:30PM to 12:00AM\nNOTE: We have no future scheduled dates for this event. It may no longer be occurring.\n22 W 34th St\n- Primary Dance Style:\n- Swing (e.g. ec swing, lindy, jive, etc)\nUse EAST ENTRANCE\n7:30pm - 9:30pm Swing classes\nAn amazing Lindy Hop party with LIVE BAND every Wednesday night at DanceSport NYC! Jessie Bunting & The Hot Shim Sham Orchestra playing classic big band swing from 30s-40s", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Singing & Piano in Vancouver\nLet's play a piano! Let's sing! Let's make a harmony!\nVoice Ensemble class\nThursday December 7, 2017: We (the Apple Choir) went back to the Vancouver General Hospital to sing carols again this year.\nThank you, VGH, for having us!\nWell done for all your hard work!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As part of our standard course, Bobby Dazzlers incorporates singing lessons to help students develop their ability to sing and gain more confidence on stage.\nTo be able to perform at a professional level, students must not only be able to act and dance, but also have the ability to sing and project their voice to a large audience. Our resident singing teacher Victoria Haltom loves working with students to help achieve their goals and gain a better understanding of how to breath and use their voice to the best of their abilities.\nSinging lessons are available to students enrolled on our musical theatre course or for those just wanting to join the group as a single discipline.\nAll singing lessons are held at our facility at Hume St, Stockton on a Wednesday and Thursday each week.\nIf you are interested in attending a singing lesson at our Stockton facility, please contact us on 07795 561016 for more information.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Los Angeles Ballet School (LABS)\nLos Angeles, CA\nLos Angeles Ballet School (the Official School of Los Angeles Ballet) is seeking a Part-Time Ballet Instructor to work Monday/Thursday/Friday 4:00pm - 6:30pm; Saturday 10:00am -12:30pm.\nLos Angeles Ballet School (LABS) is seeking a part-time instructor for ages 6-18. The ideal candidate will possess Balanchine training and a minimum of 5 years experience teaching children.\nIncludes substitute teaching opportunities on Los Angeles Ballet performance dates.\nE-mail your resume, cover letter, and headshot to [email protected], with the subject line \"LABS Part-Time Instructor Application\".\nNo phone calls or walk-ins. Thank you.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Photo: Prince Peezy (Facebook)\nDo you know what is rare? (in the same category as picking up a R10 these days), hearing a song for the first time and immediately knowing it’s got that flavour.\nPatrick Prince Sikombe better known to his followers as Prince Peezy released his latest project on these music streets and OTR got nothing but heat from the masterpiece by the newest member of Cashtime Life.\nPeezy’s The Flavour is the second official single (after BaeZonke) from the upcoming artist. The tune is easy on the ear and the lyrics equally catchy.\nLadies will definitely relate to this soon to be turn-up anthem. Asking what inspired the song Peezy gives mention to him wanting to write something dedicated to the ladies and with somewhat of a romantic flare. “I remember hearing a trap song for the first time and thinking it’s just noise over a beat, so I thought, why not add an element of sweet to this and write something that the ladies will also love.”\nThe heated tune was produced by Reggie Beatz and is (as of Friday 7th of October) available on DataFileHost, Indimba.com, YouTube and Audiomark.\nDownload the song here:\nDataFileHost: Click To Download\nAudioMack: Click To Download\nand tell us what you think.\n“Every chance I get on the mic will be to prove a point, a point that my season is coming” – Prince Peezy", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The James Bond Theme is the main signature theme of the James Bond film series and is featured in every EON Productions 007 film since Dr. No in different versions. The piece has been used as the accompanying fanfare to the gun barrel sequence in almost every James Bond film. It is set in the key of F, with a B flat.\nThe James Bond Theme has accompanied the opening titles twice, as part of the medley that opens Dr. No and then again in the opening credits of From Russia with Love. It has been used as music over the end credits for Dr. No, Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The World Is Not Enough, Casino Royale, and Quantum of Solace.\nMonty Norman has been credited with writing the song and he has received royalties since 1962, although producers had his arrangement rearranged by John Barry. Thus, a debate rages on about who is the true composer of the theme.\nIn the made-for-DVD documentary Inside Dr. No, Norman performs a piece of music he wrote for the stage several years earlier entitled Bad Sign, Good Sign , that resembles the melody of the \"James Bond Theme\" in several places.\nThe song uses a surf rock style guitar riff, as the genre was a craze in the early 1960s.\nJames Bond Theme\nDr. No Title Sequence\nUnlike most Bond films, Dr. No does not have a titular theme song. However, it being the first Bond film, Dr. No used the now famous James Bond Theme song during it's opening title sequence, as well as a secondary song (to fit the mood of the film) called \"Kingston Calypso\".", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music and engineer James Grahame have announced the Meeblip Triode – a ‘small, dirty & deep’ synth module that has been updated to be a better bass synthesizer.\nThey note that the ‘MeeBlip anode was already capable of producing ridiculous bass sounds. So with triode, we challenged ourselves to make things even more extreme.”\nThe open source/open hardware synth is a digital/analog hybrid design, with digital wavetable oscillators feeding into an analog filter.\nHere’s what’s new with the Meeblip Triode:\n- New sub oscillator\n- Red color\n- 8 additional custom wavetables, for 28 in total\n- Improved envelopes\n- Front-panel glide\n- MIDI control of analog filter resonance\n- Analog filter – Twin-T analog filter goes from ‘sweet’ to distorted\n- Three oscillators – dual digital oscillators plus digital sub-oscillator\n- Wavetable mode 0- triode includes a hidden wavetable mode with 24 ‘aggressive’ waves\n- MIDI support – triode offers full MIDI control, including real-time tweaking of parameters using MIDI CC. Hidden parameters like envelope and filter attack, Pulse width and envelope modulation are available using MIDI CC.\n- Open source – MeeBlip triode is open source hardware. You can check out the schematics, read through the code and make changes. Extended controls\nPricing and Availability\nThe Meeblip Triode is available now for US $139.95.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Thank you so much! Sweet Tooth was outstanding and made our event a huge success. The band added just the right touch, with class and fun and charm and perfect selections in line with the theme of our event and overall needs. I would hire them again in a heartbeat. They were also very easy and pleasant to work with and very reasonably priced. They also were flexible in terms of timing. What a treat! My guests were extremely happy and impressed.\nOur band offers a rhythm section, horns, and vocals to give you the most control over your event. We can come as a small group for background music, or a larger band to pack the dance floor. The Sweet Tooth Jazz Band creates a timeless atmosphere from the moment you hear our downbeat. We play music that spans across Jazz, Latin, Klezmer, Gypsy, and New Orleans styles of music.\nThe Sweet Tooth Jazz Band works closely with the finest musicians and singers in New York City.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Department of Theatre, Dance and Media Studies\nAssistant Professor of Dance\nRob Scoggins has been involved in theatre and dance for over 30 years. He started his training in dance at Southern Illinois University with Alcine Wiltz. He received his M.F.A. in dance at Lindenwood University in 1986. Prior to that, he studied with Eric Hawkins, Carol Conway, Luigi, the Joffrey Ballet School and many other master teachers. He apprenticed with the Mary Anthony Dance Company where he had the pleasure of dancing Charles Weidman’s choreography.\nMr. Scoggins has worked with Modern American Dance Company (MADCo) as a dancer and choreographer for over twenty-five years. Additionally, four of his dances have been performed in the gala concert at the American College Dance Festival, two of which went on to the nationals.\nMr. Scoggins has been a guest teacher at numerous universities throughout the United States and most recently was a guest artist at the Rocky Mountain Theater Festival. His choreography has been seen throughout the United States and overseas.\nUniversity of Missouri-St.Louis\n226 Art Administrarion Building", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "\"Bad Cover Version\" is a song by British rock band Pulp, from their 2001 album We Love Life. It was released 15 April 2002 as the second single from the album, charting at #27 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2002 in British music). It was the band's last single before their eight-year hiatus, which ended in 2011. CD1's B-sides appear as bonus tracks on the US release of We Love Life. The B-sides to CD2 are cover versions of Pulp songs performed by other artists.\nThe song details the protagonist's belief that his former partner's current relationship is inferior to what she had with him. The latter part of the song is a list of things the narrator likens said relationship to, including The Rolling Stones since the 1980s, the TV adaptation of Planet of the Apes, and later episodes of Tom and Jerry where Tom and Jerry could talk.\nMost notable is the reference to and \"The second side of 'Til The Band Comes In\", a 1970 album by Scott Walker. Walker was the producer of Bad Cover Version, along with the rest of the We Love Life album. 'Til The Band Comes In contains original songs on side 1, and cover songs on side 2. Critical reaction was that the covers let the album down, an opinion which Walker himself has now admitted he shares, stating that the inclusion of covers was a compromise with the record company. Pulp singer and lyricist Jarvis Cocker has stated that the lyrics were written and finalised before he knew that Walker would be involved.\nThe cover for the single is similar to the cover of David Bowie's famous album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The child on the cover is in fact Pulp's guitarist Mark Webber.\nThe song's video features many celebrity lookalikes who gather in a West London studio to perform a \"tribute\" to Pulp, in a similar style to the video for Band Aid's \"Do They Know It's Christmas?\". All the lookalikes appear to perform their own lines in the style of the artists they are impersonating, with the exception of the Jarvis Cocker lookalike, who is miming to Cocker's vocal. Cocker himself appears in the video dressed as Brian May, playing the guitar notes that ends the song. Kurt Cobain, who died in 1994, is the only impersonated artist who wasn't alive at the time of the song's release.\n- The list of impersonated artists\n|1.||\"Bad Cover Version\" (Album Version)||4:10|\n|3.||\"Forever in My Dreams\"||4:23|\n|1.||\"Bad Cover Version (Video Version)\"||3:58|\n|2.||\"Disco 2000\" (Nick Cave version)||Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Russell Senior, Webber||5:20|\n|3.||\"Sorted\" (Roisin Murphy version)||Banks, Cocker, Doyle, Mackey, Senior, Webber||6:10|\n|1.||\"Bad Cover Version (Album Version)\" (Audio)|\n|2.||\"Bad Cover Version\" (Video)|\n|3.||\"Making the Video\" (Video)|", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Shaun Martin and Drew Tucker will take the stage at Arts Garage for an unforgettable night of cool, Contemporary Jazz. Shaun Martin is a multi-Grammy winner who has collaborated with a long list of top 40 artists. Shaun’s willingness and ability to be a subtle part of each band has allowed him to be part of the very foundation. Drew Tucker is a unique combination of talents that place him at the intersection of the arts and activism.\nPRICE: $30 - $45", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #\n[ Register here | Forgot password ]\nGuitar chords and tabs to all the popular songs by T Bone Burnett. Learn songs like River Of Love, Primitives, I Remember and Humans From Earth easy.\nSubmit T Bone Burnett tabs and chords\n[ About us | Privacy notice ]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ready for some free classic synth samples? MusicRadar.com is celebrating “synth week” and they want you to come along to the party. The powers-that-be at the popular royalty free music website are giving you a selection of classic synth sounds. The sounds come from ARP’s Odyssey and Solina instruments, and Roland’s System 100. As a fun and additional bonus, you can also download single hits from some of the finest drum machines throughout history, including Roland’s TR-909 and 808 beatboxes.\nAll you need to do is download the samples and get to work using and mixing them. According to MusicRadar.com, the samples are split into four different folders. Three folders cover the featured synths, and the fourth folder contains all of the drum machine content. There are riffs, multisamples and single hits available. All the music samples are supplied as WAV files, so they can be imported directly into your DAW or sampler of choice. The best part is that the samples are royalty free music, so you can use them however you like. MusicRadar.com’s only stipulation is that you do not redistribute the music samples. All of the classic synth samples are supplied in a zip file, so you will need to download and remove them before they will show up on your computer. You can listen to some of the synth samples that are available at MusicRadar.com.\nMusicRadar.com is part of a consortium of royalty free music websites, and is a subsidy of Future Publishing. Created by musicians for musicians, MusicRadar.com is the number one website for guitarists, drummers and producers. Check out their latest gear updates and artist news through one of their many music-related publications. You can also read expert reviews on the best new kit, play along with their expert video lessons, or try out handy tips and projects suggested on the website. They also offer numerous music-related blogs, podcasts, competitions and a vibrant forum full of hungry royalty free music users. Visit www.musicradar.com to start using their free classic synth samples today. What are you waiting for?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SATB: with Oboe (Advent)\nThanks to all who replied. We're doing either the Quia respexit if the oboe d'amore gets fixed in time, or the Domine Deus from the Vivaldi Gloria.\nHappy holidays to all!\nChrist Church, Ridgewood, NJ; The Stonewall Chorale, NYC\nTake a look at \"Advent Canticle\" by Mark Shepperd, Beckenhorst Press;\nuses oboe, flute, SATB, and soloist.\nIn response to your query, attached is a PDF sample of\nmy arrangment of O Come, O Come Emmanuel. It was\noriginally written for guitar, oboe and SATB choir. It\nalso has optional string parts. (If you are interested\nI will send a sample full score.)\nPiano or harp could substitute for the guitar.\nIf you wish to perform it, you may order it direct\nfrom Aspen Grove Music, using this e-mail address.\nTwo very fine Craig Phillips anthems for SATB, organ and oboe :\nSelah 405-146 is the publisher and number.\nThe first thing that popped into my mind is the \"Quia Respexit\" for oboe d'amore (spelling?), soprano, and keyboard from Bach's \"Magnificat\". I love singing this pieceit's very haunting and lovely.\nI'm not a church choir director, so don't necessarily know what's appropriate for Advent, but I can tell you that we're doing Leo Nestor's arrangement of \"Rise Up Shepherds, and Follow\" for SATB, Mezzo Solo, and Oboe. Lush chords, a bit tough to put together, but very beautiful when done. Published this year by ECS.\n\"Anything for flute or violin can be made to work on oboe, since there's not too much out there just for us.\nDavid Ashley White has an \"Away in a Manger\" for choir and flute/oboe that is the tune of \"I Gave My Love a Cherry\" or \"The Twelfth of Never\", which is actually an Appalachian tune, I believe (for the purists).\nDomine Deus from Vivaldi Gloria is perfect, and everybody probably already knows it.\nI have a book by Mary Caldwell called \"A Celebration of Melody\" for the Church Year. It has A Carol for Advent, which an enterprising player could pick out a line from the accompaniment. The other piece that has a written\nout part (for violinbut works for oboe) is A Lute Caroll. The text is \"What sweeter music\". Is that too far into Christmas to qualify? Only if you are Episcopalian, probably. I got my book from sheetmusic.com.\"\n\"Quia fecit\" for soprano from the Bach Magnificat uses oboe d'amore. The \"Suscepit Israel\" (SSA) uses an oboe. Great pieces - I'm doing them as part of an Advent concert on Dec 5.\nYes! I composed a piece for Soprano soloist & SATB with a prominent oboe part. Very melodious and flowing. Good for average to above average choir. Unpublished.\nIf you have need of further info, please contact me.\nMelvin Rookus, Minister of Music\nNardin Park UMC\nFarmington Hills, MI\nThere's a Voice in the Wilderness - by Ann Krentz Organ - published Augsburg\nGod of All People - David Haas/arr. John Helgen - published Kjos Music\nRalph Vaughan Williams' song cycle \"Ten Blake Songs\" is for Tenor and oboe, and includes \"The Lamb\" which would be appropriate for advent, I would think. I did some of these pieces on a recital, and \"The Lamb\" was by far one of the most tonal. Gorgeous little pieces, espeically if your oboist is a lyrical player", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Julian Bream Guitarra!: A Musical Journey Through Spain\n|You Save:||$1.99 (7% Off)|\nCurrently Out of Stock: We'll get more as soon as possible\nitem number: 34YKK\n- Rated: Not Rated\n- Run Time: 4 hours\n- Video: Color\n- Released: September 26, 2000\n- Originally Released: 1986\n- Label: Kultur Video\n- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)\n- Packaging: Keep Case\n- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33\n- Interactive Features:\n- Interactive Menus\n- Scene Access\nPerformers, Cast and Crew:\n|Music Performer:||Sir Charles Grove & The Chamber Orchestra of Europe|\nClassical guitarist Julian Bream hosts this examination of the evolution of Spanish guitar music from the 16th-century through the 1990's. Includes concert footage featuring Bream performing with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.\nDescription by Kultur Films:\nThis musical journey through Spain with Julian Bream traces the evolution of the Spanish guitar from 1500 to the present.\nVietnam: America's Conflict - 50-Documentary Collection...\n$7.60 Super Savings\n2007 Newport Music Festival: Connoisseur's Collection...\n$102.20 Super Savings", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Life Is Beautiful\nRelaxation & Sleep Music Composer\nThis music will take you on a journey to a peaceful forest with soft wind sounds, crickets and birds twitting. The music is soothing and slow and consists of an ambient piano, meditation bells, and felt pad sounds. I hope it helps you to relax and meditate.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Francesco Bartolomeo DeLeone (July 28, 1887 – December 10, 1948) was an American composer of Italian descent.\nBorn in Ravenna, Ohio, to a family of Italian immigrants from Colliano (near Salerno, Italy), at fifteen DeLeone entered the Dana Musical Institute at Warren, Ohio. In 1907 he went to Italy to complete his musical education at the Conservatorio Reale di Musica of Naples. Upon his graduation in 1910, his operetta, \"A Millionaire's Caprice,\" had its premiere on July 26, 1910 at the Teatro Eldorado of Naples and was produced throughout Italy. The same year DeLeone returned to America, to be Director of Music in the Municipal University at Akron, Ohio.\nDuring his career DeLeone composed cantatas, songs, and works for piano in addition to opera and operettas. His most successful opera, Alglala, was first produced at the Akron Armory on May 23, 1924. The opera remains one of the best examples of the Indianist movement in American music. The plot was based upon a Native American story; the librettist, Cecil Fanning, drew inspiration from experiences, observations and research during several seasons spent on the Crow reservation in Montana. Presented again in Cleveland, Ohio on November 14 and 15, 1924, the opera won a Bispham Memorial Medal Award and numerous other awards. The composer also received from King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy the title of Chavalier of the Order of the Royal Crown, in recognition of his success in operatic composition.\nDeLeone died in Akron, Ohio.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "GAETANO DONIZETTI (1797 – 1848): Parisina – C. Giannattasio (Parisina), J. Bros (Ugo), D. Solari (Azzo), N. Ulivieri (Ernesto), A. Taylor (Imelda); Geoffrey Mitchell Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; David Parry [recorded in Henry Wood Hall, London, during December 2008; Opera Rara ORC40]\nIn his extensive liner notes accompanying this recording, typical of Opera Rara’s inimitably high standards of scholarship and presentation, Jeremy Commons suggests that Parisina’s failure to claim a permanent place in the international repertory can be attributed in part to ‘the fact that the great sopranos of the Donizetti revival, Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland [patroness of Opera Rara], did not include it in their repertories.’ For all her remarkable and unprecedented contributions to global understanding and acceptance of bel canto in general, Maria Callas’ exploration of the Donizetti canon was confined to three operas: Lucia di Lammermoor (hardly a forgotten score when Callas revitalized the dramatic profile of the title role), Anna Bolena (in which Callas was truly revelatory), and Poliuto. Dame Joan Sutherland took on a greater number of Donizetti heroines, but Parisina’s tessitura is slightly low to have been completely suitable for the Australian prima donna. Montserrat Caballé, Spain’s queen of bel canto, did sing Parisina, however, and her 1974 concert performance at Carnegie Hall is widely considered not only a great personal triumph but also one of the truly significant nights in the history of that venue. As Mr. Commons also notes in his article, Donizetti composed a number of meritorious scores that continue to slumber in obscurity, especially as the bel canto Renaissance has in the past two decades been mostly supplanted by a revival of interest in Baroque music. If, as Opera Rara strive to prove with this new studio recording, Parisina is an opera as satisfying and musically rewarding as, say, Partenope, the advocacy of an artist of Caballé’s ilk should have proved an important boost in the score’s fortunes. That Parisina remains largely unknown arouses curiosity about what has been missed – or, in a less flattering sense, what the opera itself is missing.\nDespite having justly earned Donizetti’s exasperation with its long-delayed gestation, Felice Romani’s libretto for Parisina is among the finest of the bel canto period. Romani famously lamented that his verses for Parisina, the value of which he shrewdly sensed, were set by Donizetti rather than Bellini (for whom Romani provided seven libretti, including those for Norma and La Sonnambula). Opera Rara have provided Romani’s complete libretto, including passages that were not set by Donizetti. Reading the libretto both with and without Donizetti’s excisions, it is apparent that the composer’s judicious editing rendered Romani’s libretto both more dramatically effective and more ingratiatingly poetic. Metaphors likening human emotions to natural phenomena abound, providing Donizetti with ample and mostly creatively-seized opportunities for tone painting. In the scene in which Azzo (the aging, jealous husband who denounced a previous wife for imagined infidelity, with fatal consequences for the hapless bride) observes Parisina (Azzo’s current wife, faithful despite having loved another man since their shared youth) as she sleeps and hears her utter in the course of her dreams Ugo’s name (he being the requiting object of Parisina’s innocent passion), both Donizetti and Romani attained the zeniths of their respective arts. With music of thrilling tension and deceptive beauty, Donizetti fully revealed the brilliance of Romani’s verses and presaged the exhilarating and heart-wrenching final scene of Verdi’s Otello.\nDespite many passages that are recognizably Donizetti at his finest and a duet for the lovers that resembles in structure, dramatic function, and thematic development Lucia’s and Edgardo’s ‘Verranno a te sull’aure,’ Parisina lacks the easily memorable tunes that have doubtlessly played a significant role in keeping Lucia di Lammermoor and L’Elisir d’Amore in the affections of audiences worldwide. Even if one loathes these scores and their heart-on-the-sleeve sentiments, melodies like the main themes of ‘Verranno a te,’ Lucia’s great Sextet, ‘Tu che a Dio spiegasti l’ali,’ and ‘Una furtiva lagrima’ are not easily expunged from the memory. Though possessing ensembles that rival the best in any of Donizetti’s scores and in ‘Sogno talor’ an aria as hauntingly beautiful as any solo number in nineteenth-century opera, Parisina ultimately impressed most with its grandiose but never vulgar drama and the dignity of its utterance. Parisina is a worthy sister to Anna Bolena, Lucia, and Maria Stuarda, her lines in some instances even more finely-crafted than theirs but wanting the melodic individuality that forever stamps the recollection of a character’s plight upon a listener’s mind.\nOpera Rara make with this recording a persuasive case for Parisina, as indeed they do with virtually every score that they commit to disc. At the podium, David Parry adds another jewel to his crown of achievements in bel canto repertory, presiding over a performance that ideally blends grace with fire. Tempi are carefully judged with a masterful touch for shaping musical progression naturally, speeds in lyrical portions of the score expansive without languishing and those in the more overtly melodramatic passages wonderfully propulsive without leaving the singers gasping behind. Maestro Parry’s winning approach is magnificently abetted by the singers of the Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, under the direction of Renato Balsadonna, and the players of the London Philharmonic. The choristers give little evidence of being Britons, and the integrated tone they bring to both intimate and boldly extroverted passages is ringing and impressive. The Philharmonic players execute their music on a level that matches the work of the world’s best orchestras, playing with dash when required and, following Maestro Parry’s lead, accompanying the soloists with subtlety and attention to detail. More so than in some of Donizetti’s more celebrated scores, the orchestra in Parisina have a significant part in developing the opera’s drama, and this is vigorously realized. Maestro Parry again proves his idiomatic suitability for bel canto repertory and surpasses by a considerable margin the current international standard for what is thought to be ‘stylish’ conducting of bel canto scores.\nThe only ‘small’ role in Parisina is that of Imelda (Parisina’s confidante), though even she makes significant contributions to the drama. The role is cast from strength in Opera Rara’s recording with mezzo-soprano Ann Taylor, a fine singer whose varied experience ranges from Händel and Gluck to contemporary music. In this performance, Miss Taylor discloses a pleasing voice and a technique capable of facing the modest hurdles Donizetti set for her; that is, modest but debilitating to many underprepared singers who might sign on expecting only a few lines in recitatives and doubling of the top lines in choruses. Dramatically, Miss Taylor enacts all of Imelda’s concern for her mistress through coloration of the voice, darkening her vowels in moments of stress to underline Imelda’s terror and foreboding. Remembering all the poor singing that can be heard on recordings and in staged performances in a crucial supporting role such as Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, it is of great solace to hear an artist of Miss Taylor’s accomplishments as Imelda.\nErnesto, Ugo’s adopted father (it is revealed in the course of the opera that Ugo is none other than the unknown son of Azzo and his cast-off wife, Matilde), is a bass role cut from the same cloth as Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor. Ernesto’s roles as the distressed father-figure and voice of reason and conscience are shared with Raimondo, and their vocal lines are likewise similar. Ernesto is sung in this performance by bass Nicola Ulivieri, and – as with the Azzo and Parisina – it is beneficial to hear a native Italian singer in the role. Mr. Ulivieri is attentive to the innate profundity of Ernesto’s pronouncements and sings throughout the performance with firm and pointed tone, producing a superb high note in the scene in which he reveals to Azzo that Ugo is his natural son. Mr. Ulivieri’s singing produces the suspicion that his vocal center of gravity is at the higher end of the bass spectrum, however, occasionally compromising Donizetti’s intended effects in Ernesto’s lower register. Only rarely does this impede the resolution of a phrase, and Mr. Ulivieri minimizes the impact of the relative weakness of his lowest notes by leaning into the text as his vocal lines descend, compensating for lack of sheer heft with closely-judged dramatic emphasis. In Mr. Ulivieri’s performance, Ernesto’s concern for his adopted son’s predicament is palpable, his singing shaped by alertness to the meaning of the text. On the whole, Ernesto is a more interesting character, musically and dramatically, than Lucia’s Raimondo, and he is admirably portrayed by Mr. Ulivieri.\nAzzo shares many similarities with Alfonso in Donizetti’s Lucrezia di Borgia (not least that both of them are Dukes of Ferrara) and Verdi’s Conte di Luna. A deeply insecure man whose almost psychotically jealous nature has already resulted in the repudiation of his first wife (Ugo’s mother), Azzo is consumed at the start of Parisina with suspicions of his current wife’s presumed infidelity. These suspicions are the dramatic core of the opera, and tragedy is precipitated by the reality that the devotion between Parisina and Ugo is born of a pure love, the product of their shared childhood. His unyielding menace notwithstanding, Azzo is the most vividly-drawn character in the opera, and Donizetti shaped the role with music of impressive range and vitality. That vitality is brought to the fore by the committed singing of Italian baritone Dario Solari. Mr. Solari reveals in this performance a solid voice of middle weight, the timbre dark without jeopardizing vowel placement or the clarity of his diction. In terms of vocal weight, Azzo is a step further than Lucia’s Enrico towards the towering baritone roles of middle-period Verdi. It is easy to suspect that a successful Rigoletto would likewise prove an effective Azzo. Combining a thoughtful but voracious approach to the role with a voice on good form, Mr. Solari is a thoroughly successful Azzo. If it is more difficult to imagine him proving a completely effective Rigoletto, this can be attributed in part to Mr. Solari’s possession of a good baritone voice of the modern sort; vowels open and on the breath and consonants rounded to minimize impact on legato. Dramatically, Mr. Solari convinces as a relentlessly threatening character whose few moments of lyricism are undermined by doubts. In a sense, the final scene in which Azzo has his son murdered and heartlessly reveals the corpse to Parisina represents a pre-Freudian psychotic break, and Mr. Solari rises to the challenges of both this scene and that in which Azzo overhears his sleeping wife utter Ugo’s name. Listeners familiar with Caballé’s Carnegie Hall concert performance of Parisina may have been spoiled by hearing the wonderful Québécois baritone Louis Quilico (a justifiably famous Rigoletto) as Azzo, but Mr. Solari brings off the full measure of the role on his own scale.\nUgo, the object of Parisina’s innocent affection, is sung by Catalan tenor and bel canto specialist José Bros. Mr. Bros has to his credit an impressive array of successes in bel canto in the world’s opera houses and on records, not least in the title role of Opera Rara’s recording (taken from a pair of concert performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden) of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux. Though heavier than some bel canto tenor roles, Ugo was composed for Gilbert-Louis Duprez, the first tenor known to have taken top C’s from the chest (and who, five years after the premiere of Parisina, created the role of Benvenuto Cellini for Berlioz), ensuring the role’s prominence and high tessitura. Ugo indeed has much distinguished music despite the lack of a set piece of the unforgettable impact of Edgardo’s Tomb Scene in Lucia or Roberto’s Prison Scene in Roberto Devereux. In theory, it could be argued that Mr. Bros possesses a voice that bears distinct similarities to contemporary accounts of Duprez’s. During the past few years, the bright patina of Mr. Bros’ voice has dimmed somewhat, but he retains an attractive, slender tone that can take on a metallic, somewhat nasal edge as he ascends into his highest register. As Ugo, he sings with no shortage of involvement and sensitivity to the text (though words containing the letter ‘z’ often receive a decidedly Castilian rather than a idiomatically Italian pronunciation). As ever, the reach and technical accomplishment of Mr. Bros’ singing are impressive, and there are many moments of beauty in Ugo’s lyrical passages. Ugo’s expressions of confusion with his adopted father, frustration and defiance with Azzo, and tenderness with Parisina are meaningfully contrasted. Mr. Bros endeavors manfully to avoid placing the voice under pressure unduly, raising the suspicion (as elsewhere among the cast) that a slightly larger voice would be more apt for the role, but he cleverly puts instances of stress to dramatic use. These qualities contribute to a sense that Mr. Bros has the role well in hand, and he easily outclasses his only recorded rivals in Ugo’s music.\nDonizetti conceived the title role of Parisina for Caroline Ungher, the Austrian singer who was the contralto soloist in the first performances of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and Ninth Symphony (and who, tradition would have it, performed the sad duty of turning the deaf composer to face the frenzied applause of the audience at the Symphony’s end). In addition to Donizetti’s Parisina and the aforementioned Beethoven parts, Ungher also created the roles of Isoletta in Bellini’s La Straniera, Antonina in Donizetti’s Belisario, and the title role in Donizetti’s Maria de Rudenz. The variety of these roles suggests that Ungher was, like her nineteenth-century counterparts Giuditta Pasta and Maria Malibran (and, in the twentieth century, Maria Callas), an artist whose voice could not be accurately assigned to any one Fach. In Parisina, she faced music of wide range, coloratura complexity, and lyrical richness. In twenty-first century performances, roles such as those composed for Ungher present casting challenges in that the tessitura is frequently too low for coloratura sopranos (as in the case of Dame Joan Sutherland, noted at the start) and uncomfortably high for modern mezzo-sopranos. In this regard, Opera Rara cast Parisina with a gifted singer whose voice is a seamless compromise between mezzo-soprano and soprano ranges, the Italian soprano Carmen Giannattasio (who also made a significant impression as Elena, a role with similarly uncertain tessitura, in Opera Rara’s concert-performance recording of Rossini’s La Donna del Lago). The timbre of Miss Giannattasio’s voice is not immediately identifiable, at least not in the manner in which a listener instantly recognizes the voice of Callas or Sutherland, but hers is a lovely, shimmering voice that survives Parisina’s music without audible distress. In moments of greatest emotional anguish, Miss Giannattasio covers the tone slightly, tempering the voice’s natural sheen without decreasing its beauty or purity. From the perspective of technique, Miss Giannattasio is a much better singer than many of the sopranos singing similar repertory throughout the world, and she makes a fascinating effect in Parisina’s great aria ‘Sogno talor di correre.’ Central to her dramatic suitability for the role, Miss Giannattasio displays the admirable acumen to convey the tragic maturity and weight of Parsinia’s sorrow while retaining an obviously youthful vocal profile. The incensed terror of her responses to Azzo’s eavesdropping on her slumbering utterance of Ugo’s name heighten the foreshadowing of the related scene in Verdi’s Otello and prove thrilling in the context of Parisina. Miss Giannattasio’s contributions to the final scene, in which she collapses in the arms of her ladies-in-waiting after being shown the corpse of the murdered Ugo, are wrenching, the tone both ethereal and febrile. In this performance, Miss Giannattasio proves – despite a less-imposing voice – a legitimate rival to Caballé as Parisina and gives further evidence of what seems a very promising career in bel canto.\nPerhaps the single finest collective achievement of the cast (including chorus, orchestra, and conductor) of this recording of Parisina is that, in the long-standing tradition of Opera Rara, there is not even the faintest suggestion of condescension to what is, by twenty-first century standards, a blood-and-thunder melodrama ripe for parody. Every participant in this performance gives every appearance of complete dedication, not to a task but to the presentation of a neglected masterwork. Parisina deserves this luxury treatment far more than most of the Baroque and bel canto works unearthed during the past three decades, and Opera Rara have lavished on the score the resources and commitment major labels brought to the mainstream Verdi and Wagner operas a generation or two ago. Bel canto endures because its emphasis is (or should be) pure beauty: this recording of Parisina, preserving fine work from all its contributors, reveals that Opera Rara understand this as fully now as when their first recording was released thirty-two years ago.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fear not Gals With Goals readers! I haven’t given up on my August goal, I’ve simply been in Washington, D.C. for the National Flute Associations Annual Convention! After two rehearsals on Wednesday, I traveled to D.C. on Thursday with my teacher, Alison Brown Sincoff and the Ohio University Flute Choir to perform on a combined concert with the OSU Alumni of Katherine Borst Jones. We had beautiful weather and such a great time at convention. I had a chance to meet new members of the OU Flute Studio, reconnect with fellow OU grads who also studied with Catherine Keener in high school, hang out with my fellow Divertimento Flute Quartet members, and attend a University of Nebraska Alumni breakfast. I’m already looking forward to next year’s convention on San Diego!\nI finished reading Making Music and Enriching Lives this past week for my August goal and wanted to share what I thought were the best highlights of the book. As students head back to school this week, many parents might be considering music lessons for their child. In the book, Bonnie Blanchard lists the advantages of starting lessons early, starting lessons later, and she also provides parents with ways to determine if their child is ready for music lessons. Hopefully these lists will help students and parents decide if private instruction is right for them this fall!\nSome Advantages of Starting Early\n1) May learn best before age ten, according to some studies.\n2) Integrate music into their lives before extracurricular activities crowd it out.\n3) Think of themselves from the beginning as musicians.\n4) Learn by rote and quickly develop their listening and memorizing skills.\n5) Enjoy the sense of belong and the role models group lessons provide.\n6) Gain confidence when initially playing ahead of their peers.\n7) Need more parental involvement, which brings the family together in music.\n8) Develop more fluid and natural technique through years of lessons.\nSome Advantages of Starting Later\n1) Are better able to sit still and concentrate.\n2) Have developed the needed fine motor skills.\n3) Have the necessary breath capacity.\n4) Base their learning on reading music instead of imitating, learning closer to “real life” music situations.\n5) Better understand music theory as it presents itself through the music.\n6) May choose to play their instrument, instead of it only being the parents’ idea.\n7) Are less likely to “burn out” by adolescence.\n8) Progress faster and in more exciting ways, requiring less patience from the child, parent, and teacher.\n9) May, after a few years, catch up with their peers (especially in woodwinds), saving years of time and money investments.\nIs Your New Student Ready to Start Lessons?\nTo determine a child’s readiness, ask:\n1) Can the child sit still for twenty minutes?\n2) Can he/she perform small motor tasks with both hands?\n3) Are his/her hands big enough to hold the instruments? Does she have the necessary breath control for a wind or brass instrument?\n4) Is he/she fairly organized? Does he/she take care of her belongings?\n5) Does the child show an interest in music? Does he/she ask for favorite songs? Does he/she sing?\n6) Does he/she feel comfortable talking with adults? Will he/she take direction?\n7) Is he/she mature for his/her age?\nFellow teachers, I didn’t forget about you! Kick start your year, not just with music fundamentals but also with ideas for teaching musicality to your students. It’s easy to get caught up with the “nuts and bolts” of music making, but what about musicality? Here’s a short list for teaching, not just a technician but also a musician.\nHow Do You Teach Beginners to Be Musical?\n1) Show the similarities between spoken speech and music\n2) Create a musical attitude from the beginning\n3) Listen to good music\n4) Provide other tools\n5) Musicality is many notes on one gesture\n6) Music has a feeling of forward motion\n7) Music is tension and release\nI think most musicians would agree, one of the most rewarding aspects of being a musician is participating in chamber music with your friends and colleagues. Why not share that sense of community with our students? In Making Music and Enriching Lives, Bonnie lists the following reasons for providing and promoting chamber music for our students.\nWhy have your students play in ensembles?\n1) Ensemble music, especially for strings and piano, is some of the best music there is.\n2) Performing in an ensemble takes the pressure off each individual and is a great way to ease students into performance.\n3) Learning to interact with ensemble members is a valuable growing and maturing tool for teenagers. It forces them to “get out of themselves” and communicate with the members of the group, the first step to communicating with an audience.\n4) Ensemble playing is a great antidote for prima donnas. It forces players to think like a sports team and not like soloists.\n5) It teachers leadership.\n6) The skills students learn through ensembles make their solo performances better too.\n7) It is valuable ear training as each member tries to listen to all the parts at once.\n8) It’s an easy way for students to make friends and for parents to get to know each other too.\n9) It beats the monotony and loneliness of playing by oneself all the time and adds to private lessons.\n10) It’s a way to teach more than one child at once.\n11) It’s tons of fun!\nIf you haven’t done so yet, please check out Bonnie’s website and book. I’ll have more to come next week as I begin reading Bonnie’s second book, Making Music and Having a Blast.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Drusilla Duffill Theatre School offers a fantastic dance education to all pupils providing a disciplined approach to physical exercise, a chance for young people to express themselves creativelyand an avenue for children to explore and contemplate a future in dance.\nWe have a reputation for being a professional, hardworking and friendly dance school providing outstanding dance classes in Ballet, Tap, Modern, Jazz and Street Dance to girls and boys from the agesof 2.5-18 years. We are proud of our 100% pass rate in ISTD examinations.\nSarah is the principal teacher & founder of \"The Live Wire School of Dance\" which was founded in 1996. Sarah started to dance at the early age of 2½ years and has been dancing ever since, obtainingan all round training in Ballet, Tap, Modern, Ballroom & Latin American. At the age of 5 years Sarah decided that her ambition was to run her own dance school and she has been working towards this ever since. She has been an ISTD/NATD qualified dance teacher since she was 21 years old.\nWe are a friendly dance school based in Burgess Hill, West Sussex and have been offering dance training to children aged 3 and upwards since 2008. School Principal, Karen Hollebon, is a highlyqualified dance teacher with over 30 years experience of teaching children and adults. We believe in helping all our children reach their full potential as dancers through training, examinations and performances but most of all we want to have fun! Our phone numbers and email address are on the Contact page.\nShow businesses near Burgess Hill", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "«Selfie» is an impressive portrait of Catalan pianist-improviser-composer-educator Agustí Fernández, offering insights into what he thinks and feel nowadays about music and the piano. All the pieces, except the last one «Llimona», were recorded over the past year. Fernández recorded this album alone, in his studio, with his own piano and his own recording equipment. Every day he went to the studio, looked at the piano, and decided where to «attack» it. After a few takes, he left the piano, and in the afternoon he listened to the takes and decided which one was the «roundest» one, the one that had the most musical entity, and got closer to what he felt while playing.\nThe titles of the piece are simple. Fernández insists that he did not want to «tell a story with the music. There are no literary or landscape references, I don’t want to translate concepts or metaphors into music. I have nothing to explain but the music I make. I just want to play the piano, my own way». And in his unique way, he understands the piano as «a box with the potential to make all kinds of sounds … the essence of the piano is in the sounds that the vibrating strings emit, not the keyboard. You can make the strings vibrate in many ways, with different objects (as are the key hammers) or directly with the hands and fingers». The playing itself was a physical and metaphysical experience: «When I play, I am the sounds that I produce. I bring them to life and they give life back to me. When I play, I let the music penetrate me and say what it wants to say, and I try to put as few impediments as possible. I listen intensely to the different colors and I seek to capture each instance … Pure music».\nIn a way, «Selfie» tells about the never-ending struggle of Fernández with his beloved instrument. His imagination and rebellious spirit seek to liberate the piano, and at the same time to liberate himself from numbing, comfort-zones as a musician, improviser and composer. At the same time, he seeks to reach a deeper, even revolutionary, spiritual unity with the piano’s sounds. Fernández mentions that he believes in the «transformative power of sounds. When we listen to them carefully, they have a lot to tell us». This transformative power does not relate only to music or art at all but affects the way we see the world, ourselves, our society, and the times we’re living.\nFernández strips his music from any familiar convention, genre, or stylistic association, and opts for raw, abstract sounds with a rich array of extended techniques that employ the full body of the piano – keys, wooden body, and strings. He calls it pure and clean music. It is music of total commitment and constant search; music of resistance and refusal to accept common norms or the current state of affairs; music that no listener can be indifferent to it. It is demanding music, often urgent and chaotic, even unsettling music, but music that is colored with strong poetic veins; music that calls for action, emotional, cerebral, and political action, but most of all humane action. Great music from a true master with singular musical language. You should make this rare kind of music as part of your life too.\nAgustí Fernández (p)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Personnel: Leon Redbone (vocals, guitar); Frank Vignola (guitar); Scott Black (cornet); David Boeddinghaus (piano).\nRecorded at a Paris theater in 1992, LIVE presents Leon Redbone at his old-timey best, delighting an enthusiastic French crowd with his sauntering, anachronistic tunes. Redbone's sly, distinctive voice is backed only by guitar, cornet, and piano here, and the spare instrumentation serves to highlight the songs themselves, which range from originals that touch on blues and gypsy jazz to lively American standards.\nTo place an order or for customer service, call toll-free 1-800-336-4627 or outside the United States, call 1-610-649-7565\nOpen Monday - Friday: 7am-10pm, Saturday: 9am-9pm, Sunday: 10am-8pm (Eastern Time)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Latin Jazz wave is old hat. There are too many hangers-on; too many copy cats and not enough original thinking musicians. But in contrast, the serious craftsmen and women are getting more skilled and penetrating the soul of the Latin ethos – some even growing something akin to “mi Alma Latina” actually. And, of course jazz is today’s “classical” music given us originally by the Afro-American musicians of past and present. And so in praising the art the keepers of its flame, many European musicians create rather wonderful works.\nThe Music has been embraced across the Atlantic pond for decades, with Europe embracing important musicians from Satchmo, Sidney Bechet and Ellington to Mingus, Bud Powell, Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon. Men like Boris Vian spread the gospel of The Music and artists like Mathias Ruegg and now Hamlet Fiorilli are faithful apostles. This record by the latter is one of the latest attempts to share the Latin Jazz experience with serious fans of this and The Music. And it is not only brave but shines with a catalogue of real gems.\nDescarumbiando shows just how much this group has imbued the spirit of the music. And this is the best news and heralds the musical success of this project. Anyone virtuoso musician can play with great facility, but to play intelligently and thoughtfully – and every once and awhile – to come up with something surprising is a measure of just how the musicians “dig it” and therefore “get it.” That title track, for instance, is like an overture for the record. The jam comes roaring in with rhythms form Brasil and Cuba – samba and rumba – melding like steel, bending and frolicking with the “alegria.”\n“Recuerdos” showcases the full intensity of the percussionists on this date. Their work is outstanding and compliments the inner clave of Hamlet Fiorilli’s piano work. Congas and drums combine sharply and there is a superb flamenco break and the handclaps accentuate the heat of the piece. “Suite Latina,” although short is a fine composition rooted in the valse mode but then soon traverses the gamut of rhythms with a dynamic harmonic crescendo, played by the piano almost mimicking a Gershwin roll at first then streaking ahead. “Ron Y Gin” is a classic Cuban mambo and son track that is played with swagger.\nThe rest of the program is anything but predictable. “El Fuego del Padre” explores the edges of tonal dissonance and also features some fine conga work. “Gospa” is a well-written authentic bolero. “Tocando Mi Oropel” is rendered as a chorinho and features a memorable dialogue between Fiorilli’s piano and Simon Pibal’s clarinet. In “Bluesambongo” the funky Afro-American and samba rhythmic dialects collide. The highlight of “Siete Camisas” is the fine sense of togetherness that exists in the band as they work each other in unison. And “Tranquilo” is a quiet closer for the date, but not before the quiet fire of Hans Lassnig’s trumpet burns through the bolero.\nIf there is one quirky slightly distracting aspect to the record it may be the song titles that are a tad contrived, but then the music that follows more than makes up for this. The result though is a surprisingly mature Latin+Jazz record.\nTracks: Descarumbiando; Recuerdos; Suite Latina; Ron Y Gin; El Fuego Del Padre; Gospa (Bolero Mayor); Tocando Mi Oropel; Bluesambongo; Siete Camisas; Tranquilo.\nPersonnel: Hamlet Fiorilli: acoustic piano; Victor Fiorilli: electric bass; Stefan Mortel: drums; Gianni Battilana: congas and percussion; Max Fiorilli: timbales and percussion; Hans Lassnig: trumpet and flugelhorn; Michael Erian: tenor and soprano saxophones (solo: 7, end solo 1); Robert Friedl: tenor saxophone (all other ts solos); Special Guests: Stefan Gfrerer: acoustic bass (7); Simon Pibal: clarinet (7).\nHamlet and His Latin Jazz Experience on the web: www.latinjazzexperience.com\nReview written by: Raul da Gama\n14th Annual Puerto Rico Jazz Jam at Centro de Bellas Artes in Santurce\nHilario Durán and his Latin Jazz Big Band Nominated for 2024 JUNO Awards\nJohn Santos Sextet “Vieja Escuela” CD Release Concert\nPast, Present and Future in the Music of Aruán Ortiz\nThe Latin Side of Jazz Episode 36\nRoberto Fonseca: La Gran Diversión\nIntroducing Percussionist, Composer Vernon Chatlein\nCuban Pianist, Composer Dánae Olano To Release Debut Album: “Children’s Corner”\nVernon Chatlein: Imershón\nCorina Bartra Afro Peruvian New Trends Orchestra: Cosmic Synchronicities\nColette Michaan: Earth Rebirth\nAdriano Clemente: The Coltrane Suite and Other Impressions\nJuan García-Herreros – The Snow Owl: Normas\nRaphael Cruz Reaffirms His Commitment To Latin Jazz!\nEdy Martínez, the Music Architect Behind the Piano\nRubén Blades con Roberto Delgado & Orquesta · Son de Panamá\nCelebrating Emiliano Salvador and his Musical Legacy\nCubano Be, Cubano Bop: A Memorable Night in Toronto with Poncho Sánchez\nA Conversation with Percussionist, Bandleader Poncho Sanchez\nThe Odyssey of Anat Cohen\nPaquito D’Rivera & Quinteto Cimarrón: Aires Tropicales\nHave You Seen My Nana? The Enduring Genius of Moacir Santos\nEnrique Rodríguez: Enriquito – Me Quito El Sombrero\nRoberto López Afro-Colombian Jazz Orchestra: Azul\nMost Read in 2023\nConcert Reviews10 months ago\nTO Live Presents: Arturo Sandoval Septet – Bringing The Heat to Toronto\nFeatured8 months ago\nSANTOS: Skin To Skin – Film Review\nLiner Notes9 months ago\nConrad Herwig: Soulfully Mad for Charles Mingus on The Latin Side of Mingus\nEvents10 months ago\nInternational Jazz Day – April 30, 2023: A Jazz Journey around the World", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Residents in Thanet are being encouraged to join a new choir launching this month, where singers can learn tunes from musical legends such as Elton John, Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin.\nFrom January 8, people of all ages and abilities will be able to join the Margate Soul Choir, held at the Cliftonville Community Centre on Monday nights from 7.30pm.\nSet up and run by award-winning Kent-based musicians and composers Abi Gilchrist and Ross Power, Soul Choirs already has ten branches across the South-East and London including in Tunbridge Wells and Whitstable.\nThe Margate Soul Choir is one of four new groups being set up for 2024, with other openings in Brockley, King’s Hill and London’s King’s Cross.\nThere is no need to audition or be able to read music to join a Soul Choir. Experienced choir leaders teach groups in a 90-minute session each week, with singers learning around seven songs per term.\nAt the end of each term, there is a chance for choir members to perform in concerts across Kent and London. Past concert venues have included Dreamland in Margate, Greenwich and Docklands Festival, the Southbank Centre and Camden’s Electric Ballroom (KOKO).\nSome members have even had the chance to perform with soul legends such as Mica Paris, Lemar, Incognito, Alison Limerick and others appeared on last year’s M&S’ Christmas advert.\nAbi Gilchrist, co-founder of Soul Choirs said: “We are thrilled to be opening four new branches of Soul Choirs in London and Kent and spreading the Soul Choirs joy for more people to make local friends, learn amazing songs and have some incredible performance opportunities. Our choir members always tell us that singing boosts their mood and helps their mental health too.\n“If you’d like to have a try, sign up for a free taster session via our website. You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain!”\nRehearsals will be on Mondays at the Cliftonville Community Centre, St Paul’s Road, from 7.30pm until 9pm.\nTo sign up for a free taster session, visit soulchoirs.com", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Welcome to the Joan DeVee Dixon website. Allow me to introduce myself with my profile. Please review my photos, compositions, CDs and other information. If you have questions, please email me at email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.org. I usually respond in a day or two. If you don’t hear from me, please try again.\nMany thanks for visiting!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "From the CD: \"Devotion to Mary through the ages has inspired an outpouring of music in her honor. This compilation is a unique bouquet of sublime pieces from the 12th century to the present, most of them not found in other Marian collections, exquistely performed by some of the world's best artists.\"\nThis CD is an incredible project that features some of the most beautiful songs every performed for our Blessed Mother. The music is from the classical and world music genres, and features a variety of artists and groups.\nAmong my favorites, Schubert's \"Ave Maria\" peformed by Sweden's Elisabeth Andreassen and the late Jan Werner Danielsen; world music singer Ashana and her original composition of the \"Ave Maria\"; The King's Consort recording of Claudio Monteverdi's \"Ave Maris Stella\", and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' Wind Orchestra's performance of Eric Whitacre's \"Lux Aurumque\". While these are my favorites, all of the songs on this CD are true masterpieces, as they should be to honor Mary.\n1. \"O Maria, Stella Maris\", performed by Trio Mediaeval\n2. \"Ave Maria\" by Franz Schubert, performed by Elisabeth Andreassen & Jan Werner Danielsen\n3. \"Viridissima\" by Hildegard Von Bingen, performed by Jocelyn Montgomery\n4. \"Et Lidet Barn Saa Lystelig\" by Anonymous, performed by Anne-Lise Berntsen & Nils-Henrik Asheim\n5. \"Magnificat\" (excerpt) by J. S. Bach, performed by Miah Persson, Yukari Nonishita, Akira Tachikawa, and Bach Collegium Japan.\n6. \"Cavatina: Se D'un Dio Fui Fatta Madre\" by G. F. Handel, performed by Anne Sofie von Otter & Musica Antiqua Koln\n7. \"Ave Maris Stella\" by Claudio Monteverdi, performed by The King's Consort\n8. \"Pavan: The Cradle\" by Anthony Holborne, performed by The Rose Consort of Viols\n9. \"Ave Maria\" by Ashana, performed by Ashana\n10. \"Regina Coeli\" by Nicolas Gombert, performed by Huelgas Ensemble\n11. \"Nesciens Mater\" by Jean Mouton, performed by the Monteverdi Choir\n12. \"Lux Arumque\" by Eric Whitacre, performed by UNLV Wind Orchestra\n13. \"Ave Maria\" by Charles Gounod, performed by Anne-Maria O'Farrell & Aisling Drury Byrnie\nLINKS for this review:\nValley Entertainment website\nCopyright 2010 Jim Logue\nAbout the Author\nWe welcome guest contributors who graciously volunteer their writing for our readers. Please support our guest writers by visiting their sites, purchasing their work, and leaving comments to thank them for sharing their gifts here on CatholicMom.com. To inquire about serving as a guest contributor, contact editor@CatholicMom.com.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ultimate Air Guitar : Whip your phone out of your pocket and SHRED!\nWhip your phone out of your pocket and SHRED like a god of rock!\nWant to play air guitar for real? Ultimate Air Guitar makes you sound like a rock god instantly!\nSpread your feet apart, throw those rock horns in the air, adopt the power stance and start rocking, and Ultimate Air Guitar will start playing scorching guitar licks according to your motion, and the amp valve will start to glow!\nChoose to rock with a live crowd and get the full atmosphere of a smokey blues club or massive stadium crowd, and listen to them cheer your air guitar skills!\nChoose your favourite skin for the air guitar screen, such as a concert crowd or amp tube, and watch it glow as you rock!\nYou can even rock with a full band thanks to UK rockers 'A New Tomorrow', who have kindly provided their track 'What They Can't Steal From You' for you too play air guitar with and melt some faces!\nMore skins and guitar styles coming in future updates. What are you waiting for, its free! Grab it now and start rocking!\nShare with Others\n- Last changed:\n- Jul 15, 2012\n- Candid Innovations Ltd\n- Average Rating:\n- 4.00 (19)\n- 20.0 MB", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I have to admit that film music isn’t normally be something I would choose to go and see, but my son had spotted the magic words ‘Star Wars’ on the programme, and (disclaimer!) a friend of mine was playing, so off we went to Elvet Methodist Church for the Durham University Hill Orchestra’s summer concert, conducted by Jonathan Packham.\nThe Hill Orchestra is a non-auditioned group, a vital part of the university’s musical make-up, that gives opportunities to everyone who wants to play. It’s relatively heavy on wind and brass, since obviously there are fewer places in the auditioned orchestras for these instruments. I thought the programme was very well chosen for the forces available, with pieces that gave the relatively small string section big soaring melodies that allowed them to shine and come through against the brass and winds.\nTheir hour-long programme swept through the big tunes of a number of popular movie scores, beginning with the theme from ‘The Magnificent Seven’, with Kweku Bimpong and Ryan Bunce creating an effective sound of galloping horses in the percussion. I thoroughly enjoyed the orchestra’s very stylish delivery of Eric Coates’s music for ‘The Dambusters’, which came across with just the right sense of lightness and swing, and the boy was very approving of ‘Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back’, particularly the brass.\nThe concert was very much an ensemble performance, but special mention has to go to Ryan Kerr for a lovely oboe solo in Ennio Morricone’s famous theme ‘Gabriel’s Oboe’ from ‘The Mission’, and to all the lower instruments in one of the non-movie pieces of the evening, a fun-filled ‘Hall of the Mountain King’.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Experience the Ultimate Acoustic Sound with the Fishman Loudbox Mini\nAre you in search of the perfect acoustic amplifier to elevate your musical performances? Look no further than the Fishman Loudbox Mini, an exceptional piece of equipment that has taken the music industry by storm. At Decibel Audio Kenya, we take pride in offering you top-of-the-line musical instruments and gear, and the Fishman Loudbox Mini is no exception. This versatile amplifier boasts outstanding features that are sure to enhance your acoustic sound experience.\nUnparalleled Sound Quality\nFishman has long been synonymous with acoustic sound quality, and the Loudbox Mini is no exception. It is meticulously designed to deliver an extraordinary sound experience, setting a new benchmark in acoustic amplification. Whether you’re a professional musician or a passionate hobbyist, this powerhouse amplifier will help you achieve the pristine sound you desire.\nWith 60 watts of acoustic power at your disposal, the Loudbox Mini ensures that your sound will be heard loud and clear. It features two channels, each with Fishman’s renowned preamp and tone control designs. This means you have complete control over your instrument and microphone, allowing you to fine-tune your sound to perfection.\nThe Fishman Loudbox Mini goes above and beyond by offering built-in digital reverb and chorus effects for the instrument channel, as well as reverb for the microphone channel. These effects add depth and dimension to your sound, making your performances truly captivating. You can adjust these effects to suit your musical style and preferences, giving you endless creative possibilities.\nConvenience at Your Fingertips\nThe amplifier also comes with a range of convenient features that make it a must-have for any musician. It includes an MP3 input, allowing you to play along with your favorite tracks, and a balanced XLR D.I. output for easy connectivity to a sound system or recording equipment. Whether you’re performing on stage or in the studio, the Loudbox Mini has you covered.\nLet’s recap the key features that make the Fishman Loudbox Mini stand out:\n- 60 watts of power with a master volume control\n- Two channels for instruments and microphones\n- Digital reverb and chorus effects\n- 1/4″ and 1/8″ auxiliary input\n- Balanced XLR D.I. output\n- Lightweight and portable design\nInstrument Channel Excellence\nThe instrument channel is equipped with a 1/4″ input compatible with both active and passive pickups. It also includes a phase switch to combat feedback, a 3-band EQ with controls for low, mid, and high frequencies, a dedicated reverb level knob, and a versatile dual-function chorus. These features give you the flexibility to shape your sound precisely how you want it.\nThe Fishman Loudbox Mini is a game-changer in the world of acoustic amplifiers. Its impeccable sound quality, powerful performance, built-in effects, and convenient features make it a valuable addition to any musician’s gear collection. At Decibel Audio Kenya, we are thrilled to offer this exceptional amplifier to our customers, and we invite you to come and experience the Fishman difference for yourself. Elevate your acoustic sound to new heights with the Fishman Loudbox Mini – your audience will thank you.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Live entertainment rounded out a lunch at Roaring Brook School Thursday with a lesson on musical composition.\nLarry Alan Smith, dean of the University of Hartford's Hartt School, accompanied by doctoral candidate Sue Black on the bassoon, serenaded students in the cafeteria with music the pupils helped him compose.\nSmith asked the students, seated at long cafeteria tables as they munched on lunch, whether they would like him to compose a soft or loud piece, fast or slow, happy or sad.\nDuring one lunch wave, one student chose a loud, slow, happy song.\nTough, but not impossible.\nSmith immediately envisioned the tune in his head before jotting it down on sheet music and showing it on a screen with an overhead projector. He used sort of a majestic marching gesture, moving his arms raised high, to allude to the feel of the tune.\n\"This is wild,\" he said. \"This is going to jump all over the place a little bit.\"\nThe notes are just \"marks on a paper until a performer comes into the picture and translates what's on paper into sound,\" he said.\nSmith and Black's presentation to the students was part of a weeklong \"Celebration of the Arts.\"\nThe celebration included a display of the literary and artistic works by students in kindergarten through fifth grade, exhibiting the spectrum of growth through the elementary school years.\nThe week also included adult readers visiting the classrooms, a performance by a jazz band, and a play by fifth-graders called \"Use Your Imagination.\"\nStudents, who all learned how to play the recorder, said they enjoyed the presentation. Some said they like to sing, write songs and play other instruments such as the keyboard, piano and pennywhistle.\n\"I like how he never erased things,\" Cayla Buettner said, referring to Smith's approach to a work in progress. \"He just scribbled them out.\"\nBuettner, who once wrote a nursery rhyme song at home, said it was good advice.\n\"That way if I'm writing anything . . . I may want it back in there,\" said the 9-year-old third- grader.\nTia Batson, who is 8 and also a third-grader, said she enjoyed Smith's advice. Batson said she composes and has written songs about her family. \"I write a song down, then I find keys to play them.\"\nMargaret Stacy, 8, and in the third grade, got Smith's autograph Thursday to put in her special notebook with other signatures she's collected. Why? \"Because I wanted it,\" she said. \"Because he teaches people how to play music.\"\nSmith said he wanted students to remember that every time they sing, play music, or hear it that a real live person wrote it.\n\"The word composer actually comes from an old Latin word, which actually means to put things together,\" said Smith, who lives in town and has a son who attends Roaring Brook School. \"It's almost like I'm a builder.\"\nA composer \"tries to capture their feelings and your feelings about the time in which they lived,\" he said.\n\"It's kind of a history whenever you sing or play music. You know that you're a partner with the composer who wrote the music.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I did end up finding the piano sheet music to Nothing Else Matters by Metallica and some other sheet music, including November Rain by Guns N Roses and Beth by Kiss. All last week I was having fun playing the piano. It feels good to play. I don’t play very well anymore but just doing something familiar reminds me of being younger and the creativity juices in me. I let it out by drawing, painting, dancing, playing the piano, writing…etc…it’s a good reminder to always try something new again to keep your brain working in different ways. I heard that it keeps you young too 🙂\nYou can add blogging to the list also 😉 It’s something new that I love to do!\nThanks for reading!!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SCIOTO COUNTY- This year the Scioto County Honors Music Festival will celebrate its 80th Anniversary with a performance by local High School Band, Jr. High Band, and High School Choir students at the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts, at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio, on Tuesday, February 28.\n166 local music students in grades 7-12 from Clay, East, Green, Minford, New Boston, Northwest, Oak Hill, Portsmouth, South Webster, Valley, West and Wheelersburg will perform in the music festival this year. Students were required to audition to become members of the Honors Music Festival.\nStudents will be performing in one group concert. There are 46 members of the Scioto County Junior High Honors Band, 59 members of the Scioto County High School Honors Band, and 61 members of the Scioto County Honors Choir.\nThe Guest Conductor for the Jr. High Honors Band is Ms. Carol Dunevant, Director of Learning for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She has conducted throughout the United States as well as internationally, including two tours of Japan and as Festival Conductor of the Luhansk Philharmonic for the Luhansk International Music Festival. Her work with the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestras and Nouveau Program provides access to educators and students from 50 schools in a 120 radius.\nThe Guest Conductor for the High School Honors Band is Ohio musician, music educator, and composer, Dr. Nicole Piunno. Her music has been performed by the Principal Brass Quintet of the New York Philharmonic, Athena Brass Band, The United States Coast Guard Band, Wind Symphony of Clovis, the University of North Texas Wind Ensemble, and at many other universities and conservatories around the country. Her chamber music has also been performed at the Orvieto Musica TrumpetFest in Orvieto, Italy, the International Trombone Festival, and multiple International Trumpet Guild Conferences. In honor of the 80th Anniversary of the Scioto County Honors Music Festival, Dr. Piunno was commissioned to create an original arrangement to be performed by the High School Honors Band and Choir at this year’s concert.\nThe Guest Conductor for the High School Honors Choir is Mrs. Jeanne Wohlgamuth who currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Columbus Children’s Choir. She serves as President-Elect of the Ohio Choral Director’s Association and Vocal Affairs Chair for the Ohio Music Education Association. She has served as a guest clinician for numerous state and national honor choirs and in 2023 will lead her first choral residency at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Wohlgamuth is proud to have received the Professor Veneta Vicheva International Conductor’s Mastery Award, the Best Conductor award of the Rimini International Choral Competition. She was also awarded the 2020 National Teacher of the Year from the Organization of Kodaly Music Educators.\nMusic scholarship awards will be announced during the festival.\nSponsors for the Music Festival are: William & Barbara Burke, Mike and Teresa Canter, Marc & Jennifer Cottle, Dr. Paul & Mrs. Carolyn Crabtree, DESCO Federal Credit Union, Glockner Enterprises, Rosalee Greene, Lowell & Nikki Howard, Dr. Robert & Mrs. Chris Knox, Drs. Michael and Mary Martin, Arnold & Wanda McCoy, Debbie McGinnis, Ohio Arts Council, Portsmouth Area Arts Council, PALS, Portsmouth Rotary Club, Scioto Foundation, Shawnee State University, SOMC, and Southern Ohio Rheumatology.\nThe concert begins at 7 p.m. on February 28. Reserved seating tickets are $10.00 each and are on sale now at the McKinley Box Office, inside the Shawnee State University Vern Riffe Center for the Arts. The box office phone number is 740-351-3600, and its hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and one-hour prior to the concert.", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "William Malcolm Jones\n\"I score/produce music for films,Windband,Brass Band etc.\"\nHigh quality classical sheet music to download instantly.\nWho's Online Now...\nGuests: 211 Members: 0\nEnjoy the Forums\n\"\"This site is exactly what I have looking for!! It certainly helps a frequent traveler like me to locate all the Musicians when traveling. Keep up with the good work.\" ONE LOVE\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "J Dilla + Snoop Dogg + Kokane – Gangsta Boogie | New Music\nIt turns out there is more unreleased J Dilla. Super rap producer, Dr Dre, just premiered the previously unreleased song, titled “Gangsta Boogie”, on the latest episode of his radio show.\nIt is to be the first single from Dilla’s long lost 2002 effort, The Diary, featuring Snoop Dogg and Kokane, with production by Hi-Tek. The album is set for release on PayJay/Mass Appeal Records on Friday, April 15 and is available for pre-order.\nIt has that bottomless bass you associate with the West funk side of things. Chords of synthesiser ring through now and again, as if to convey the threat of gangsta repercussions.\nLatest posts by Andrew Watson (see all)\n- Tiana Major9 – Merry Go | New Music - April 10, 2017\n- ‘Southern African Music & Arts’ UK Tour – Friday, April 14+Saturday, April 15 | Events - April 9, 2017\n- Hak Baker – Conundrum | New Music - April 6, 2017", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Over the years I have seen some awe inspiring do-it-yourself entertainment. It is my hope that my list of favorites will inspire you to incorporate some special DIY entertainment on your wedding day.\nBride’s six-year-old nephew plays the violin for the wedding ceremony. I’ll be honest, I was expecting a musical child prodigy, but what I got was “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” played squeakily, over and over until the entire sixteen-person wedding party was down the aisle. It was absolutely adorable and truly memorable.\nGroom plays piano for the wedding ceremony. Just before the parents’ processional, the groom took his place at the white baby grand at the front of the ballroom. He played traditional classical music for the wedding party and the bride. It was beautiful. The truly awe-inspiring moment was during the ceremony when the minister was about to start the vows, the groom went to the piano again and played a song he had written and composed just for the bride. There wasn’t a dry eye in the room.\nGregarious friend of the couple emcees wedding reception. Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone had a charming, funny and fearless close friend who could entertain wedding guests with whit and wisdom all night? Well, one of my lucky couples had just that. They were able to combine the talents of a great professional DJ who had a cadre of musical selections with a great host who really knew the couple. The reception was funny and moving and the guests danced all night.\nGroom’s sister wows guests during the cocktail hour. One of my grooms had a very talented sister who wanted to give the couple a special wedding present. She gifted them her vocal and guitar talents for the cocktail hour. It was a great way to save the couple some money on entertainment while allowing the sister to enjoy the wedding reception.\nThese DIY moments were so successful because friends and family were able to contribute their talents without taking on so much that they weren’t able to enjoy the wedding. I really think that is the key to successfully managing wedding services given to you by family and friends. Whether it be decor or entertainment, wardrobe or photographs, you can save money by having people you are close to provide services for your wedding day, but you will save relationships by making sure those generous family and friends aren’t over committed.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Walnut Big Muddy McClung\nWalnut Big Muddy McClung mandolin armrest\nOut of stock\nWalnut McClung Big Muddy mandolin armrest\nDesigned for use with a Big Muddy style mandolin. Our ergonomic McClung armrests offer comfort and picking arm better control. The upward angle places your arm above the bridge. The enables the soundboard to vibrate more freely without dampening. The instrument will be louder.\nThere are no reviews yet.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Join our Mailing List\nDavid Finckel / Wu Han / Philip Setzer Trio\nIn performances of the two Schubert trios at Spivey Hall and elsewhere, the masterful Finckel/Wu Han/Setzer Trio gave “an exuberant, eddying account of the B-flat, then turned the screws tighter for the E-flat, grabbing listeners, as it were, by the throats” (San Jose Mercury-News). This powerhouse ensemble returns for a highly dramatic work by Shostakovich, and more. Chamber music fans – red alert!\nFriends of Spivey Hall Concert Sponsors: Jeffrey M. Adams & Susan M. Hunter\nProgramLudwig van BEETHOVEN Trio in E-flat major, Op. 1 No. 1\nDmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Trio No. 2, Op. 67\nFelix MENDELSSOHN Trio in C minor, Op. 66", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Come Work at a Vibrant, Growing School!\nSt. Charles Parish School, a premier school in the Waukesha County area, is searching for loving professionals who want to work in our vibrant and growing school community.\nSt. Charles School is seeking a part-time (60%) Elementary Music Teacher.\n• The qualified candidate will have a passion for teaching music to elementary students through the use of best classroom practices.\n• The qualified candidate will have a deep understanding of the Archdiocesan Music Standards and be able to implement them into the curriculum. Experience and training in music theory, instruments and performance preparation preferred.\n• The qualified candidate will be able to teach 4K-8th grade in the fundamental principles of music, music theory and basic notation, plus other duties.\nSt. Charles is seeking a 3K Teaching Assistant. The qualified candidate:\n• Assists teachers in planning, organizing and implementing of instruction for students.\n• Assists in providing individual and small group instruction in order to adapt the curriculum to the needs of students’ intellectual abilities.\n• Supports full class instruction and other main duties.\nFor more information about the jobs please visit the Archdiocese of Milwaukee website at www.archmil.org/Resources/Application-for-Parish-School-Employment.htm.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Free song download Aka Victory Lap Instrumental To start this download you need to click on [Download] Button. We have about 24 mp3 files ready to play and download. by downloading this song you accept our terms and conditions. Enjoy downloading Aka Victory Lap Instrumental mp3 for free\nSmooth Hip Hop Instrumental (Rick Ross Type Beat) - \"Victory Lap\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "5th Grade After School Strings Program\nTIME: 3:00 pm - 4:00pm\nLOCATION: Designated NEISD Campuses\nThe After School Strings program at North East gives 5th graders the opportunity to join the Orchestra at their school. It meets twice a week after school from 3:00 until 4:00. Students may learn to play the violin, the viola, the cello, or the double bass.\nOrchestra classes are taught by music teachers who love sharing their excitement for music with their students. The classes are free of charge. Local music stores are helpful and cooperate with students in their effort to find the instrument of their choice. There are easy-to-manage rental plans for every budget. The orchestra teacher at your school will help you find an instrument.\nIf you are in fifth grade and interested in joining your school's orchestra and learning to play a stringed instrument, please click on the link below, fill out the form and return to the music teacher at your campus. Your orchestra teacher will then be in contact with you.\nFor more information, contact Jody Noblett at firstname.lastname@example.org\nPosted on August 10, 2016", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Gautier Capuçon, © Julien Mignot\nGautier Capuçon has dedicated himself to the cello since he was only five years old, and is particularly enthusiastic about chamber music making. He records a great deal with his brother, renowned violinist Renaud Capuçon, and collaborates with numerous other celebrated artists such as Marta Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Leonidas Kavakos, Mikhail Pletnev, Vadim Repin, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Maxim Vengerov, etc.\nParis, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées\nBudapest, Liszt Academy Concert Center", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Natccu's voice soars over a bed of dirty guitars and tight rhythm, singing lyrics that are in turn cynical, angry, hopeful and beautiful. But no amount of hyperbole can properly explain the wonder of Natccu and her abrasive yet addictive music. You'll just have to listen for yourself. \"Natccu is a Tokyo-based singer songwriter who effortlessly engages with all different styles of music, from acoustic folk, to twinkling piano and jazz-infused numbers, to sew a sonic patchwork of inner-city ideals.\" - NME Natccu plays a set of gutsy pop with hysteric vocal stylings that recall Kate Bush as much as anything Japanese... She delivers effortless and gorgeous grown-up music with a raunchy rock heart and beautiful doe eyes.\" - Drowned In Sound \"Silken-voiced singer-songwriter\" - The Japan Times \"Natccu has an amazing voice, and a whole heap of great songs.\" – Breakthru Radio \"It Came from Japan has just returned from its latest UK jaunt, with Tokyo singer-songwriter Natccu playing gigs across the country.\" – The Guardian \"A very accessible and catchy style. Her vocals are incredibly powerful, and the raw emotion that shimmers through at all times may send shivers down your spine.\" – JaME \"The kind of guitar-based melodies that resonate in your head for days.\" – Neo magazine // taken from the artist's official myspace page Read more on Last.fm.\nUser-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply..\nshow me more", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Description : made with love\nDescription : hope you guys love it ! heheh\nDescription : . . .\nDescription : the moment you're born , don't blink . . . everything flash before your very eyes, and before you know it . . . it's all gone\nDescription : Its hot, its dry and i am thirsty the only thing that is keeping me alive is singing\nDescription : close your eyes , and enjoy the ride\nDescription : I call this one Where RU , Spring is here, but the Winter Godess hasn't left , so where is Spring ? Where R U ?\nDescription : a song i made for my late mother , a little short imagination of me and her dancing in the cloud with this song playing in the background, warm. goosebumps and love\nDescription : something short i made i call it Hazel eyes\nDescription : did a little bit of music on Fl studio , and a little bit of vocal in autotune on magix music maker . Nothing professional about it . Just VERY simple basic editing. :P i have no skills or experience in the music world haha , Just fun as hobby :)\nDescription : Enjoy ^_^\nDescription : Made on Fruity loop\nDescription : Made with Magix Music maker hope you all enjoy\n( IF YOU WANT A COPY OF THIS PLEASE EMAIL ME AND I WILL SEND IT TO YOUR EMAIL)\nDescription : so I made an instrumental on this one without the vocal but try to make a song out of this one see how that will work out for you and when your done send it to me so i can hear what you did :P GOOD LUCK!!\nDescription : so I made an instrumental with my vocal on this one but try to make a song out of this one see how that will work out for you and when your done send it to me so i can hear what you did :P GOOD LUCK!!\nDescription : this is just a tiny little intro that i made with my vocal and the instrumental belong to MINOR2GO\nDescription : made on magix music maker", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "2m+ lessons taught\n12,000+ great tutors\nFriendly and Experienced Musician and Music Tutor\nDedicated, encouraging music graduate and Oxford University post-graduate student with experience in music tutoring of all ages and abilities.\nPro guitar teacher\nI started playing guitar 32 years ago and have been a professional musician for the last 25 years. I have played for, and performed with, numerous artists and bands in virtually all styles of music including Classic Rock, Heavy Metal, Soul, Funk, Blues, Jazz, Latin, Co...\nUniversity graduate drum teacher in the Bracknell area\nWhether you are looking to one day become a seasoned professional or you are just wanting to learn an instrument on the side, with my tailored tuition you'll pick up the basics in no time.\nWe offer a first-lesson guarantee, which means if you don't click with your online tutor, we'll help you find another one.\nWe'll even pay for your first lesson with them!\nDrum tutor, bilingual (English/Russian)\nHi! My name is Vlad and I come from Latvia. I've been playing and teaching drums for more than ten years. Played in different bands back in my homeland Latvia, as well as in Europe and around the UK, have got live and studio experience in styles from rock to jazz. In 2014 gr...\nAll of our online tutors are qualified, dedicated experts, who are handpicked by us.\nWe only work with the best of the best!\nFriendly Science, Maths, Astrophysics & Computing Tutor\nI am an experienced and enthusiastic tutor, specialising in Mathematics, Science and Programming. I have tutored students of all ages and abilities, at home and abroad, including those for whom English is not their first language. My background is in Astrophysics research...\nDrum Tutor available for home visits\nProfessional drum tutor available for home visits in South Wales.\nNuno | Experienced and Friendly Drums Tutor\nProfessional and qualified drummer, available for both online and in-person lessons, with lots of experience and eager to share my knowledge with you.\nPassionate Drum Tutor\nMy name is Jack and I’m a full time musician and educator based in London offering drum tuition to beginners through to an advanced level. I have myself been taught by some of the UKs best drum and music educators such as Andrea Vicari, Martin France, Malcom Edmonstone, J...\nFit your learning around your schedule with online lessons available between 7am and 10pm - even on weekends!\nGuitar & Music Theory Tutor\nGuitar, ukulele and music theory tutor.\nRead some of our most frequently asked questions and answers\nStudents in Abingdon have rated the quality of their online Drums tuition 5.0 out of 5.\nLooking for private Drums lessons in Abingdon? Browse our expert Drums teachers who can help whether you’re a beginner or advanced, learning for fun or getting graded. Find tailored one-to-one, in home Drums tuition today!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Location: San Francisco, CA\nStats: 199 fans / 2,957 plays / 0 plays today\nMembers: Jesse Serrano\nYour comment is being submitted, please wait a moment.\nNew music? Nov 22\ni love it;) Feb 15\nhey check out my band? www.purevolume.com/oceansview Feb 13\ni love your guitar playing :) keep it up, man! Jan 25\nI just heard your songs. They're good! (: Jan 21\nhey. thanks for the message.\nyour music's so soothing i love it.\nbo Jan 05\nyay :) the new songs you emailed me before are up! I'm a fan :) Dec 29\nlove the music! it's really relaxing =p Dec 29\nnice voice! really calm :) Dec 29\nway cool dude!\nReally unique and distinctive its like your guitar is telling a really awesome novel hahaha. Keep it up. :P Dec 28\nThnxs for the invite. Luv your sounds. Keep up the good work. --Will-- Dec 28\ni love EET! thanks for the inspiration! Dec 09\nlove your music it is awesome and really gud, Dec 05\nview all 199 fans\nview all 13 friends\nCourtney is listening to: A Bitter Township by The Alchemy Index\nmurmi is listening to: We Can Glow by Royal Teeth\nMax is listening to: Prepotencia Mundial by The Locos\nPrettyViolence is listening to: A Beautiful Tradgedy by With Broken Wings\nJake Kilcoyne is listening to: See What You Want To by Western Scene", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "LE FIGARO, the French daily, recently paid an extravagant but by no means undeserved tribute to a French singer with a very un-French sounding name, Philippe Jaroussky.\nAt age 34, Jaroussky is today undoubtedly the most accomplished and most admired counter-tenor in the world. But for heaven’s sake, you might ask, what on earth is a counter-tenor? The word only came into use in the mid- 20th century and describes men who are able to sing in high notes typical of female vocal strings.\nBut that hardly means sweet-voiced male singers didn’t exist in the western musical tradition before. As a matter of fact, they were a very essential part of the Italian church music as women in the past were not allowed by the Vatican to join religious choirs. The popular expression that described such artistes from the 16th right up to the beginning of the 20th century was ‘castrato’ (or ‘castrati’ in its plural form).The miracle of making a man sing like a woman was achieved by castrating talented boy singers before they could achieve puberty; in other words in their 12th or 13th year. This prevented the ‘castrati’ from developing deeper, male voices and they retained for the rest of their lives this surgically preserved lighter timbre.\nBut then the ‘castrati’ had an advantage over women artistes who sang in soprano, mezzo-soprano and alto voices. Being born as males, they developed, as they grew up, bigger rib cages, stronger lungs and a higher breathing capacity and used these qualities to sing in a woman’s voice, but in a much more powerful way.\nBy the middle of the 17th century Italy had its own set of ‘castrati’ who could very easily be imagined as equivalents of today’s pop stars. Certainly they must have made a lot of money with their talent. Pacchierotti, Ferri, Farinelli and Senesino were the celebrities of the Italian opera in those days. The castrating practice only stopped when, given modern values, it was made illegal in Italy in 1870, but by that time women were being admitted to the religious singing groups in any case.\nCuriously enough, a few recordings have survived of the last Italian ‘castrato’, Alessandro Moreschi, who had a long career and died in 1922. (You can reach Moreschi’s performance through YouTube. Of course it’s a falsetto voice and its quality belongs to the earliest stages of the recording technology, but it is instructive as well as fun to watch).\nHAPPY DISCOVERY: By the middle of the last century came the happy discovery that by rigorous training a young boy can be taught to produce the voice of a female mezzo-soprano or even an alto and that there was no need to deprive the poor fellow of his masculinity, even for high art’s sake.\nThe vocal timbre of a counter-tenor, by the way, is not the same as the falsetto of a castrato whose performance makes it immediately evident that the singer is a man with a high-pitched voice. But when artistes like Philippe Jaroussky perform, their voices reach unattainable heights seemingly effortlessly simply because they are perfectly trained without need of any surgical intervention. Today classical music fans are discovering with stupor that many of the opera roles that they had always thought were originally written for women’s mezzo-soprano and alto voices by composers like Haendel, Verdi and Vivaldi were only taken over by female singers following the ban on castration. These roles are today increasingly being claimed back by the counter-tenors.\nThe most remarkable feature of Jaroussky’s success, as he himself explains, is not his own career but the way it has allowed many other talented young men to come into the limelight. “By singing professionally in 1999 for the first time at age 21 in Haendel’s opera Julius Caesar”, he told Le Figaro “I unwittingly ushered in a whole generation of counter-tenors.”\nToday the word ‘castrato’ is a pejorative that can only mean a 'eunuch' or a 'sissy'. But the expression 'counter-tenor' is fast becoming a respected and highly admired genre in opera singing, thanks in large measure to Philippe Jaroussky.\nPhysically exhausted after a ruthless routine that has made him travel days and nights for opera performances all over the world for the past 13 years, Jaroussky is taking an eight-month break, thus willingly and generously opening the door to young competitors like Franco Fagioli, Yuriy Mynenko, David Qyu Lee and Bejun Mehta, nephew of the Indian-born orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta.\nThe writer is a journalist based in Paris (ZafMasud@gmail.com)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The pattern picking arrangement below is the one I played on the recording. As with all of the arrangements with this type of Melody & Accompaniment tablature, play either the top (for the melody) or the bottom (for the accompaniment).\nThe arpeggio arrangement below can be played with either your fingers or a flatpick.\nThis chord melody solo arrangement can be played as a guitar solo. It’s a little more advanced but straightforward.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lost & Found: Can You Name Everyone in the Backbeat Band?\nWhen director Iain Softley started working on the Beatles biopic 'Backbeat,' he made an unorthodox choice regarding the soundtrack. The film depicted the Beatles' formative years, focusing on their time in Hamburg, Germany. Instead of using recordings of the Beatles or rerecording the songs they played during that time, Softley enlisted the help of some outlier rock 'n' roll talent.\nA veritable who's-who of indie-rock artists gathered to record the 'Backbeat' soundtrack. The band was comprised of Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner, Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Gumball's Don Fleming, Mike Mills from R.E.M., Nirvana and Foo Fighters dude Dave Grohl and Henry Rollins even made a guest appearance for one song.\nThe Backbeat Band came together to perform three songs on the 1994 MTV Movie Awards. Even though the film's soundtrack doesn't contain any original Beatles songs (the film only used the songs the young Beatles used to cover), the Backbeat Band finished up their three-song set with the Beatles' 'Helter Skelter.'\nThe credits to the movie awards show started rolling while the band was playing the last song of their set, but the guys just kept going. The set eventually, as great rock shows sometimes do, devolved into mayhem and destruction as the musicians began pulling down gear and knocking into one another onstage. It's one of those magical music moments that will most likely never be seen again.\nAnd if you've never heard of 'Backbeat,' it's not a bad film. You could certainly do worse when looking for something to watch if you're bored. The soundtrack is killer.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Harris Theater for Music and Dance\nThe Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance is a 1500-seat state-of-the art performance venue located in Chicago’s Millennium Park.\nLog in / Register to Claim This Listing\nwill open in new window\nrefresh this page after logging in\nPlan your Chicago Experience - free signup!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It's going to be a very memorable evening, indeed. This Wednesday, December 28, 2011 we hold space for \"Chrysalis,\" a live music and art event featuring IrRAdio, Subsurfer and The Amalgamated at the Casbah in San Diego.\nIn addition to three hot local bands, we also have live art and displays by Anna Zappoli, Lana Chromium, Nick Bahula, Terry Gillard, Tiffany Nakanishi and Jimmy Ovadia. So come on out and support local music and artists, celebrate the onset of a new season and the new beginnings that are only moments away.\nTickets are available in advance at www.casbahmusic.com for $8 in advance and $10 the evening of the show.\nIt has been a blessing and a pleasure to have worked throughout the 2011 year with so many talented people: wonderful artists, musicians and visionary venues who have helped to make these events possible. I am truly grateful to everyone who has supported these events in so many ways. Thank you so much for helping to make this work possible.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Before Chris Brown releases his sixth album, X, the singer has treated fans to a new offering, “Autumn Leaves” featuring Kendrick…\nPosts Tagged: autumn\nDisney Strange World\nMaxo Kream @ The Echo Lounge @ Music Hall\nJoin the V.I.P. Club\nStay up to date with the latest concerts, music, and entertainment news. Get our email!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "My Favorite Band from College Got Back Together\nLast fall I traveled to San Francisco to see a band I followed in college perform a 10th anniversary show that turned into a mini-tour. The Matches were then inspired by the reaction of their fans, the band got together and wrote new music.\nFull disclaimer, this is music that you have not heard me play on the radio. This is just a little 'behind the scenes' of what I listen to when I'm not jamming out to the radio station. Yes, I have eclectic taste. I'm a fan of music, and I love a great turn of lyrical phrase.\nThe Matches released two new songs, which fans could buy on a 7-inch vinyl, currently being pressed set for delivery in December. Check out the lyric video below for one of the new songs, \"Life of Match.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The following sound clips are made available as WMA file and these can be played using your Microsoft Media player as is standard installed under Windows.These WMA files are near CD (or should it read near LP?) quality. Due to the copyright issue only 30 seconds is available.\n- The following radioshows are made in co-operation with this website and can be played any time any moment, this using your mediaplayer. You can listen to 1 + 1 = 2 hours of the finest Jackie Davis music ! Selection and LP-to-CD transfer is done by your webmaster.\nThe Dutch radio station the ConcertZender did broadcast [Part 1, June 29, 2008] in cooperation with this website a podcast, you might like to check out the loudspeaker symbol next to the title of the program. PLAYLIST [206 KB]\nClick here for link to Jackie Davis special Part 1, duration 1 hour.\nThe Dutch radio station the ConcertZender did broadcast [Part 2, November 30, 2008] in cooperation with this website a podcast, you might like to check out the loudspeaker symbol next to the title of the program. PLAYLIST [151 KB]\nClick here for link to Jackie Davis special Part 2, duration 1 hour.\n- Sound samples are available from the following LP's:\nRound midnight taken from Easy Does It [1.539 KB]\nTo be added soon.\nThe following sound excerpt was recorded in the early 60s by Jackie Davis producers wife. He played on their Steinway in their livingroom not knowing that he was recorded.\nWhat about this!\nJackie is playing You go to my head by Fred Coots/Haven Gillespie and is orginally approximate 17 minutes long, down here you can play some orginal Jackie Davis piano music. After hearing this you will be wondering why Jackie never released a record for solo piano.\nSound excerpt Jackie Davis - piano [839 KB]\nFunky Organ Blues, 33RPM 7'' Pacific Jazz Stereo-115\nThe track on this single seems to be the same as 'Blowin' The Blues' featuring Harold Land and Jim Hall, however this is a different take or mix. For example Jim Hall's solo is different, recording comes in stereo and in 33 RPM.\nSound excerpt Funky Organ Blues [1.876 KB]\nJackie plays Buzz me Baby & Goombay taken from RCA Victor 20-4831 \nBuzz me baby [903 KB]\nboth tracks with vocal refrain by Jackie Davis.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Emery may have moved to Brooklyn, but you can still feel his high-altitude roots in everything he does. A Colorado native, Emery Major is an independent singer-songwriter who combines the folk melodies of his youth with modern pop to create music that’s just plain fun.\nThe self-described “funny guy” cites his songwriting inspiration as Ed Sheeran, James Taylor, John Denver, and Flight of the Conchords (among others). Listen to his music on Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming platforms by searching for his name in the search bar!\nQ: Which song would you like featured?\n“Union Square Park”, the lead single off my debut EP “It’s okay to be sad”.\nQ: How long have you been creating music?\nIn 4th grade I changed the words to Nickelback’s “Rockstar” for a book report and it’s been off to the races ever since. I played saxophone in school jazz bands and concert bands, did musical theater productions, and eventually formed some garage bands in middle and high school. I get so much joy out of marrying the right word with the right rhyme, all the while being able to tell a story within a musical phrase.\nQ: Do you have a preferred genre?\nI spent a lot of time listening to James Taylor and John Denver growing up, so when I finally got a guitar in my hands I naturally gravitated towards learning and writing those types of tunes. I love all types of music, but I’ve always been fascinated with the way 70’s folk artists were able to tell a story through a song. Then, Ed Sheeran exploded on the scene in my formative years, and I loved the way he meshed folk elements with pop. Nowadays I spend my time fluctuating between singer-songwriter, folk/Americana, and pop.\nQ: Do you write your own music, or do you collaborate?\nI started out writing songs on my own, but eventually I met some amazing folks in NYC that I consistently write and work with (shout out to my producer and collaborator Benny Levs). I’m always looking to write with more people, so hit me up on Instagram!\nQ: Tell us about your latest song, EP, or album.\nMy latest/debut EP “It’s okay to be sad” tells the story of someone who, at the start, is hopeless and stuck. Eventually they work through their fears of loss and the state of the world and find their happiness. By the end, they’re looking hopefully towards the future. The 4 songs were written over the span of several years, but are all able to work together to tell a story. “It’s okay to be sad” and “Union Square Park” were inspired by what I was going through and missing when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in the Spring of 2020. The last track “Neverland” is about 7 years old — I wrote it for my high school graduation.\nQ: What is the best song you ever released and why?\nOh man… that’s really up to interpretation I suppose. I think “Union Square Park” has some of the best imagery I’ve written and really evokes a specific time, place, and feeling, whereas my song “Warning Signs” has a really lovely melody and always lands well with an audience — especially live.\nQ: Do you, or would you like to, perform live?\nI love performing live, so that would be a resounding “hell yeah”.\nQ: Which of your songs is, or do you think would be, fun to perform live?\nLike I said earlier, I love to sing “Warning Signs”. Usually the room goes totally silent by the end. The most fun though is “Badu”, which is a very silly song I wrote when I first met my girlfriend. I liked her and she didn’t really feel the same way at the time, so all I could do was write a song. I even sent the demo to her, which is insane. When I play it live it features a kazoo solo and by the end the whole audience is singing along. It’s silly, but extremely honest.\nQ: What is your favorite/best outlet to connect with your followers Instagram, Spotify, FB, Twitter, iTunes? How would you want them to follow?\nInstagram please! Give me a follow and shoot me a message: @emajorminor. I’m working on getting better at TikTok-ing, but I’m honestly still intimidated by it. You can also sign up for my mailing list on my website: https://www.emerymajor.com/\nQ: Are you currently working on any projects we should look out for?\nYes! I’ve just about finished recording a folk/bluegrass cover of Paramore’s “Only Exception”. I’ve got some Nashville musicians on the track playing lap steel, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and more. I’m really excited about how it’s coming together. I’m hoping for a late April release, so keep your ears peeled and follow me on Spotify!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Program Learning Outcomes\nThe purpose of this program is to meet the training and experience needs of new college students, current industry professionals and artists who work with recording equipment, recording studios, and music technology equipment. The program also includes a robust emphasis on musicianship, including one year of music theory, lessons and performance experience.\nThis AAS degree covers essential skills used in the audio world and provides hands on experience with state of the art hardware and software. The experience and skills will allow graduates to more easily attain positions in the industry or assist them in starting their own small businesses. The foundation of musicianship and music theory will also allow motivated graduates to further their studies at a number of universities and colleges that offer music technology or electronic music undergraduate degrees, such as University of Oregon and Bushnell University.\nStudents who complete this program will be able to:\nPLO 1 - Utilize MIDI networks and MIDI sequencers\nPLO 2 - Utilize software and hardware for recording, editing, and processing music and audio for commercial and artistic purposes\nPLO 3 - Communicate using technical vocabulary associated with MIDI, audio, and synthesis of sound\nPLO 4 - Select appropriate microphones, preamplifiers, and other outboard signal processors for various recording techniques and microphone placement\nPLO 5 - Analyze audio recordings in terms of frequency, stereo field, phase cancellation, and dynamic range\nPLO 6 - Engineer and produce high quality recording sessions for music, advertising, voiceovers, video and film soundtracks, and other types of projects\nPLO 7 - Do creative work through working with deadlines and scheduling time with clients and artists\nPLO 8 - Apply knowledge of music theory and musicianship using keyboards, and/or other instruments, in the context of music making and/or the recording studio", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Browse: Scriabin - Poème in F sharp major, Op. 32 No. 1\nThis page lists all recordings of Poème in F sharp major, Op. 32 No. 1 by Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (1872-1915).\nVladimir Horowitz (piano)\nFrom the personal archives of his friend and former pupil, Pavel Lobanov, never-before-released recordings of the Russian Master's famed lessons\nVladimir Sofronitsky (piano/teacher), Pavel Lobanov (pupil)\nA fascinating glimpse into the teaching methods of a Russian master pianist...Sofronitsky’s charisma, the fascination he held for so many musicians...shine[s] through...Sofronitsky’s spontaneity... — More…\nErica Morini (violin), Konstantin Igumnov (piano), Alfred Hoehn (piano), Sergei Rachmaninov (piano), Michael Zadora (piano), Vassily Sapellnikov (piano), Alexander Kaminsky (piano), Vladimir Sofronitsky (piano)\nNew York Philharmonic Society Orchestra, Stuttgart RSO, Danish RO, Berlin Staatsoper...\nWalter Gieseking (piano)\nGieseking’s artistry, whether at its finest or least convincing repays constant consideration. He remains an artist with a permanent rather than temporary place in the pantheon of great pianists. — More…", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Friday night, June 8th, introduced The Devil Makes Three. Their mixture of folky, blue grassy punk music and a helping hand of good old hillbilly made this eclectic trio a pleasure to experience. Guitarist Pete Bernhard, upright bassist Lucia Turino, and guitarist and tenor banjo player Cooper McBean hail from Santa Cruz, California, and have been honing their sound since their first album was released in 2002. Their unique style was the perfect choice to warm up the crowd for the main attraction.\nThe fans in St. Louis turned out in droves to see Flogging Molly tear up the stage at The Pageant. With the banner flying high behind the stage and the Irish hymn beckoning the crowd to their feet, this sold out show took a life of its own as the seven members took their respective places and set out to rock the night away. Right from the start, “Likes of You Again”, the crowd got what they came to see. Dave King was in a vocal groove so to speak, telling the screaming fans that he could see the Irish in the house through the darkness as they transitioned into “Swagger”.\nWhat impressed most was the musical skill of the entire band. Not only does everyone but the drummer sing, but the array of musical instruments that they have mastered really sets them apart from the modern day touring band.\nFrom the get-go, it was known that this show was going to top the two-hour mark and with a twenty song set list and a planned three song encore, one can’t imagine how they perform to this caliber on a nightly basis. Some of the songs included “Tenement Square”, “The Sun Never Shines”, “Times They Are a Changin'”, and “Seven Deadly Sins”. In case you are wondering what they saved for the encore, it was “Worst Day”, “Salty Dog”, and “Float”.\nIf you hurry, you can still catch the band before they make their trek overseas later in the month. Check out their website for tour details.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Anarcha-Queer-Feminist houseproject in Berlin-Friedrichshain.\nSunday: 8pm Küfa (Vegan) and Cinema\n- anarcha queer feminist\nSaturday 23 March\nbar/cafe / exhibition / (free) shop/market08:00 to 16:00\nbar/cafe / music / party / theater19:00\nbar/cafe / music / partySat, 23 - 23:50 to Mon, 25 - 08:00\nbar/cafe / exhibition / food / music / partyFri, 22 - 22:00 to Mon, 25 - 08:00", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Core to Vail Jazz are its three educational programs: the Vail Jazz Workshop, Vail Jazz Goes to School, and Jammin’ Jazz Kids. Each year over 1,400 children and students take part in Vail Jazz educational programs, introducing the next generation to the fundamentals of America’s original art form: jazz.\nIn 2017 Vail Jazz was the recipient of the prestigious DownBeat Education Achievement Award, in honor of its impact on jazz education.\nTogether, our three educational programs have impacted over 20,000 students. The programs focus on two critical areas of jazz education: introduction to jazz music and achievement of mastery-level performance. Learn more about each program, below:\nVAIL JAZZ WORKSHOP\nThis intensive Workshop immerses 12 of the most talented young jazz musicians in the nation in a curriculum of musical and professional development. It is a rigorous learning experience that is conducted exclusively, and uniquely, without any written music, emphasizing listening skills, improvisation, and playing by ear.\nVAIL JAZZ GOES TO SCHOOL\nCelebrating its 20th year in 2018, Vail Jazz Goes to School is an innovative educational program that integrates the study of jazz with social studies at the elementary level. The program, led by Tony Gulizia, provides every 4th and 5th grader at Eagle County schools with an in-depth experience of jazz, its history and its role in society.\nJAMMIN’ JAZZ KIDS\nJammin’ Jazz Kids offers an engaging and fun learning experience for youngsters on Sundays at the Vail Farmers’ Market, through interactive, hands-on activities that teach the fundamentals of jazz and the art of improvisation.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Everyone has got to check out the newest single from Dehasse. This song called Sick in the Octave, is going to soon be a world wide track. Its unique and most importantly has an absolutely filthy drop. The song builds up into a heavy drop which transitions into a progressive house sound. The progressive part of the track really gives the song a nice edge and enables people listening to it to mellow out for a minute or so. But not to worry, as soon as you think the progressive part of the track is taking it over it then re-breaks into the hard hitting beat the song starts with. Remember the name Dehasse people because its going to become a household name very soon. This is the first of many tracks to come. Make sure to throw this onto your party playlist for the weekend and play this one at high volumes.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Let’s just start here: Dorrance Dance was sensational! The two-work program, presented by the New York-based company at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, was a visual, auditory, and rhythmic delight from beginning to end. The company’s seven performers—Elizabeth Burke, Michelle Dorrance (Artistic Director/Choreographer), Sterling Harris, Luke Hickey, Addi Loving, Claudia Rahardjanoto, and Leonardo Sandoval—captivated the audience as their lightning-fast feet and intricate, jam-in-your-seat-inducing rhythms showed us just how much the ball, heel, toe, and sides of the foot could do.\nThe evening’s works, SOUNDspace and 45th & 8th, were created through a collaborative effort between Dorrance and her company members, with lighting design by Kathy Kaufman and costumes by Mishay Petronelli, Michelle Dorrance, Byron Tittle, and Dede Ayite.\nSOUNDspace opens the show with Michelle Dorrance, Leonardo Sandoval, and Elizabeth Burke on platforms in pools of light against a green cyclorama (back curtain). The sound of their taps striking against the wood is rich and boisterous as it resonates through the cubed structures. The trio starts out with a simple rhythm that grows more and more complex, playing with polyrhythm and counterpoint as they layer shifting solos on top of an anchoring pulse. Amidst the denseness of the fast tapping, I am enthralled by the moments of funkiness that jump out in a syncopated phrase. In sheer delight, I am compelled to call out, “Ok!” In addition to the rhythmic layering that characterizes the evening, Dorrance Dance also plays with tonality and timbre created from different parts of the foot connecting with different surfaces using varying degrees of force. At some points you hear the booming deep bass produced by performers dropping their heels against the stage or hollow cubed platforms. Other times, you hear higher sounds created by the ball of their foot or edge of their heel hitting the floor. They even incorporate sounds created by scraping and sliding the metal plates on their shoes against the ground, hitting different parts of the body (body percussion), and—in a nod to the “Soft-Shoe” tradition—tapping with no metal on their shoes or completely barefoot, emitting a soft, pillowy sound.\nSOUNDspace is performed acapella—except for a section between Luke Hickey and bassist Gregory Richardson—but, with the layered rhythms and tonal variety, it feels full and incredibly satisfying. The fullness is also accomplished through inventive staging and transitions between sections. One such moment happens in the transition between the first and second sections, where four performers emerge in the downstage left corner. What follows is cheeky and playful visual fun. The lighting is designed to only show the knees down. Anchored by an impressively enduring and fast 16th-note pulse, feet and knees travel horizontally across the downstage as they communicate with each other in fantastic layers and changing directions. Dorrance and Burke are exciting in their duet that closes this section.\nOther standouts in SOUNDspace are soloist Claudia Rahardjanoto, duet Luke Hickey and Addi Loving, and soloist Leonardo Sandoval. Rahardjanoto dazzles in a soft-shoe-esque solo. She is beautiful to watch as she taps effortlessly across the stage. In one of my favorite sections, Luke Hickey is mesmerizing as he converses with bassist Gregory Richardson, who is formidable in his own right. As the piece progresses, the two transition between various ways of engaging. There is call and response (when Richardson plays and Hickey responds), trading bars (a type of call and response where each participant only “speaks” for a set number of bars), and accompaniment (where Richardson is playing alongside Hickey’s tap dancing). This shifting interaction is amplified when Loving joins the party. Loving and Hickey playfully chase each other around the stage and trade bars with Richardson before Loving leaves Hickey and Richardson to bring their conversation to a beautiful close. Sandoval is out of this world with his body percussion solo that draws upon his Brazilian heritage. Impressively performed in socks, his solo opens with animal calls. He then proceeds to take us on a fantastic foot-stomping ride that journeys through hip-hop, 6/8, and samba rhythms with the accompanying vocalizations. My mind is blown at one point when he is dancing the Samba with his feet while beating out other rhythms on his torso. Just incredible!\n45th & 8th continued the amazingness with the addition of musicians Aaron Marcellus – vocals and keys; Kyle Everett – drums; Matt Parker – saxophone, flute, and clarinet; and Gregory Richardson – bass. The quartet performed original music composed by Marcellus in collaboration with Everett, Parker, and Richardson. These four musicians partnered beautifully with Dorrance Dance, bringing a totally different vibe from the first piece. Within the stunning ensemble work, Marcellus transfixed the audience with his heavenly vocals. As he layered melodies with his otherworldly voice, I imagined I was being awakened by music in King Joffer’s palace like Eddie Murphy in the fictitious African kingdom of Zamunda (Coming to America, 1988). Against lighting designer Kathy Kaufman’s vivid lighting (my favorite being the peachy sunset and royal blue against yellow designs), Dorrance and her crew of fantastic footmen brought the audience to our feet with enthusiastic praise for a stunning night of sound, rhythm, and music and a job splendidly done!\nFor more information about Dorrance Dance, please visit their website.\nTo access the full performance season at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, please visit their website.\nWritten by Marlita Hill for LA Dance Chronicle.\nFeatured image: Dorrance Dance – SOUNDspace – Photo courtesy of the company.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Slimane from FranceSlimane is a popular French artist/band, better known with the songs: \"De L'or\" , \"Changer\" , \"1,2,3\" . Discover Slimane music videos, chart achievements, biography and facts. Net Worth. Explore the related singers collaborated with Slimane. Slimane Wiki, Facebook, Instagram, and socials. Slimane Height, Age, Bio and Real Name.\nSlimane FactsSlimane is a popular artist from France. Popnable collects information about 41 songs by Slimane. The highest Slimane 's charting position is #1 , and the worst ranking place is #500 . Slimane's songs spent 45 weeks in the charts. Slimane appeared in Top Chart that measure the best French musicians/bands and the highest position noted by Slimane is 1. The worst result is 500.\nReal name/birth name is Slimane and Slimane is famous as Musician/Singer.\nBorn Country is France\nBorn Country and City are France, -\nEthnicity is French\nCitizenship is French\nHeight is - cm / - inches\nMarital Status is Single/Married\n- Slimane Popular Songs In this article, discover the best Slimane songs of all time. Explore the most famous songs from Slimane. These top hits are the most popular Slimane songs ever.\nLatest Slimane Songs\n|Song Title||Added on|", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "November 18th, kl 20:00–22:00\nHammersborggata 2, Oslo\n(see map below)\nBohemia is now in collaboration with Kafésynk, the stage of Latin American music in Oslo.\nWHERE: Hammersborggata 2, 0181 Oslo.\nWHAT: Free entrance. Music event and Open Mic.\nHOW: Bring your instrument, poem, or your favorite song. We provide stage and mic’s.\nThe concept is based on volunteering and the commitment has grown from a large network of non-professional musicians who perform music in Oslo. Bohemian Nights will gather and organize avid musicians and music enthusiasts for regular events.\nA natural development of Bohemian Nights has led to many performances of American rock, Latino rock, and both folk songs and folk music from Mexico and South America.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "2004-10-01 - WACHOVIA CENTER, PHILADELPHIA, PA\nWith R.E.M.: MAN ON THE MOON\nTHE STAR SPANGLED BANNER / BORN IN THE U.S.A. / BADLANDS / NO SURRENDER / LONESOME DAY / LOST IN THE FLOOD / JOHNNY 99 / YOUNGSTOWN / CENTERFIELD (with John Fogerty) / DEJA VU (ALL OVER AGAIN) (with John Fogerty) / FORTUNATE SON (with John Fogerty) / THE PROMISED LAND (with John Fogerty) / THE RISING / BECAUSE THE NIGHT (with Michael Stipe) / MARY'S PLACE / BORN TO RUN (with Mike Mills and Peter Buck) / PROUD MARY (with John Fogerty) / (WHAT'S SO FUNNY 'BOUT) PEACE LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING? (with R.E.M., John Fogerty, and Bright Eyes) / PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER (with R.E.M., John Fogerty, and Bright Eyes)\nAudience tape. First in the \"Vote For Change\" concert series. The series is designed to encourage people to register and vote in the upcoming elections, with each concert held in swing states. Although the tour is not obviously partisan, the general tone of the performers is in support of Democrat candidate John Kerry. Bruce and the band perform along with R.E.M. and Bright Eyes. Bruce joins R.E.M. for \"Man On The Moon\". \"The Star Spangled Banner\" is played on a 12 string acoustic guitar. Michael Stipe guests on \"Because The Night\".\nDownload this bootleg here", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "You are viewing\nDixieland Bands in Central Falls, RI\nJazz up your event with some Dixieland Music. This early style of jazz was born in the oh-so-jazzy city of New Orleans. Bring to your event the songs of musicians like Louis Armstrong and popular tunes \"When the Saints Go Marching In\" and \"Tin Roof Blues.\" You can expect a harmonious mix of brass and string instruments as well with the trumpet, trombone, banjo, bass and more creating some great Dixieland sounds. Add the music of New Orleans to your event by booking one of these Dixieland Bands today! Search for Dixieland Bands in Central Falls, Rhode Island above.\nPlease note that these Dixieland Bands may also travel to Rumford, Seekonk, Albion, Manville, North Attleboro, Attleboro Falls, Rehoboth, Riverside, Greenville, Plainville, Chartley, North Smithfield, Sheldonville, Harmony, Blackstone, Slatersville, North Scituate, Wrentham, Hope, North Dighton, Warren, Fiskeville, Scituate, Glendale, Mapleville, Oakland, Millville, Dighton, Foxborough, and East Mansfield.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Pineapple Performing Arts School\nFind out more about the cast and crew that have worked with Pineapple Performing Arts School. If you are interested in working with Pineapple Performing Arts School or similar companies, join The Mandy Network and get alerted of upcoming job opportunities.\nWe have something for everyone at PPAS! If you love performing arts, you will find everything you need to know about our courses and opportunities available to current and prospective students here on our website. Read about our top quality performing arts training sessions held every Sunday at Pineapple Dance Studios in London’s Covent Garden. We run classes for children aged three to teenagers and also adults of any age for beginners to advanced students!\nConnected Mandy members:\nAlternative Company Names\n- Pineapple dance and drama school\n- Pineapple Arts", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The vinyl only release comes in a full colour cover containing 2x 12”, and a 30x30 insert with sleeve notes and photos. A limited edition of 50 copies contains a bonus original 7” and a sticker.\nDrugstore is the self-produced debut album by the BrazilianBritish band Drugstore. It was released by Go Discs in 1995 and it entered the UK chart at Drugstore 1994-2000 is the first release of the Milan, Italy based record store Serendeepity run by Nicola Mazzetti. It features a collection of tracks formerly released on 7 vinyl only by Dance Drugstore Records in the Netherlands. All tracks have been recorded and restored from the original DAT-tapes and vinyls. This will be the first time the tracks are available on a larger format and in prestine sound quality. The compilation exclusively holds. Various's Album Dance Drugstore 1994-2000. Listen to all tracks of Dance Drugstore 1994-2000 for drugstore 1994-2000 2X12 lp. 12 Vinyl NL. Serendeepity, Ser 001. Miss Elke K. Zoofea - Untitled. Dimitri S. Filter Slide. Matko - Ellipse. Check out of stock. EUR . The Dance Drugstore label supported classic analog acid and techno sounds only. Their ambition was to spread music, adventure, fun, excitement. The vinyl only release comes in a full colour cover containing 2x 12 , and a 30x30 insert with sleeve notes and photos. Listen to online Various - Dance Drugstore 1994-2000, or download mp3 tracks: download here mp3 release album free and without registration. On this page you can not listen to mp3 music free or download album or mp3 track to your PC, phone or tablet. Buy Various - Dance Drugstore 1994-2000 from authorized sellers. Released at: This album was released on the label Serendeepity catalog number SER-001 LTD. This album was released in 2014-10-03 year. Date of Copyright . Performer: Various Album: Dance Drugstore 1994-2000 Country: Italy Released: 2014 Style: Techno, Acid, House Size MP3: 1813 mb. Size FLAC: 1347 mb. Size WMA: 1221 mb. Drugstore Rock'n'Roll. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей коллекцией. Популярно у слушателей. Wild Rockin' Girls. Исполнитель: Various artists. 2013 pop. KICKIN' 3 - 'A Dance Compilation' 1994 CD Album VARIOUS ARTISTS. From Australia. Make offer - Various - It's The Ultimate Dance Album 1994 VGVG. The Sunday Times Music Collection - Solid Soul CD Compilation Album 1994. Make offer - The Sunday Times Music Collection - Solid Soul CD Compilation Album 1994. Essential Soul - Various Artists 1994 CD Album. Get the best deal for Various 1994 Album Music CDs from the largest online selection at . Various Artists VA Mo' Cookin' CD Album Ubiquity 1994. Was: Previous PriceC\nAlbum correlati a Various - Dance Drugstore 1994-2000:", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "I earned MM in Jazz Performance, Bass Guitar Major, in 1993, and play/teach lessons for Bass Guitar since that time. My prospective students will receive rigorous training in both Bass Guitar performance and musicianship focused on the specifics of the subject of study. The level that we would begin lessons with will depend on the student's abilities and potentials. We will strive to create professional and friendly working atmosphere, and will begin lessons with careful assessment of the student's performing abilities; we will also set our goals, based on both individual expectations of students and on professional experience of the instructor. My teaching philosophy lies on three aspects; on patience with people; on love for the subject of teaching/study; and on rigorous training, offered to people, for their benefit and general musical development.\nHello, I am Vasiliy M, Boston University School of Music Alumnus (DMA in Composition). We dwell in Boston since Fall 2002; before that time , we lived in New York, where I studied Composition at Mannes College, The New School For Music. I received both BM, and MM degrees from Mannes in 1999, and 2001, respectively. Before an arrival to US, in 1994, I studied Jazz Performance, Electric Bass Major, and Classical Composition, at Moldova State Conservatory, from 1988 to 1993, respectively. I was raised in the family, where music is an essential part of its daily life; my father, Gr\nigoriy, before his retirement, was a military band trombone player, and, quite naturally, I was exposed to music, and encouraged by my parents to learn playing an instrument of my choice, from my early childhood. My mother, Anisia Kondrat'ievna, possesses both beautiful vocal abilities and perfect pitch , although she has never had a chance to develop her natural gifts any further. But I have heard my mother singing, and these moments remain one of the most touching and impressive musical experiences, that I have ever received, and remember to this very day. Only after a considerable life experiences, abound of trials and mistakes, at the age of twenty five, I have come to a clear realization, that music remains my greatest passion, and that I would have to become a professional musician. With help and support of friends and colleagues, I have entered Community College in Soroki city, Moldova Republic, where I have studied Choral Conducting for Amateurs. I have graduated from school in May of 1988, having written a few instrumental and vocal compositions of my own, and, quite unexpectedly for myself, was invited, that summer, to visit Moldova State Conservatory, with the prospect of audition for the Composition Major. After the meeting with the Chair of the Department, I was offered an opportunity to be accepted to the Master Degree Program in Composition, provided I will have completed two years of preliminary studies of Music Theory, Music Harmony/Voice Leading, and many other related disciplines. Why do I bring all of these facts to this Essay? I know for the fact now, that I was not ready for what was awaiting ahead of me, back then. There was no way, that I could cope with the demands of Composition Program curriculum. But I have had love for music, that my parents have implemented in me throughout my childhood; I have had natural abilities, that Heavens supplied me with: and I have had a chance to make my dream a reality, providing I do everything that I will have to, during the following years of struggles and study. The decision was made, and my studies have begun. I have come through every mistake, defeat, and mind-barriers imaginable, and if it would not be a continuous stream of professional help and support, that I have received from my numerous teachers, mentors, and professors, along the years of study, my goals could never be attained to any modest, but real degree. Whenever I have a chance to teach, tutor, or assist other musicians with their study, my past experience always reminds me, that any person may experience some difficulties of various nature with the learning material, from time to time, and that those difficulties should be addressed by student's teacher with the highly individual approach, however time-and effort-consuming it may be. Patience and respect, in regard to the students, have become as important aspects of teaching to me, as those of discipline and professionalism. My studies have come to an end; I see now, that the world of music is an endless entity, for it has no boundaries, and we all have to maintain our further progress, in order to move to our chosen destinations, and to help others with their own advancements.\nSincerely Vasiliy M.\n*** Lesson Details *** I would be more than willing to assist my prospective students with their various musical endeavors, and people's willingness to either play music instruments,take voice lessons, or to study Music Theory/ Musicianship disciplines will serve us as a starting point for our work. Through the diligent preliminary talk we will discuss various aspects of interest that my students have developed in relation to music, so we could plan and design our future lessons according to an initial discussion. My job and responsibility will be to make an intelligent assessment of my students' natural abilities for the given subject of study, to create vigorous learning atmosphere during our meetings, and to give my students professional instructions to the best of my humble abilities, for the benefits of their musical , aesthetic, and personal development. I will encourage my students to learn as much as they can, at the given moment, but I will not ever attempt to exceed people's natural capabilities. Participation in Music with love and fun should be as rewarding and valuable to the music amateur, as professional performing career ( with its highly demanding standards) stands for classically trained musicians. During our study sessions, we will work upon the goals and tasks that we have discussed at the beginning of our meetings. My ultimate goal as a teacher was and will always be to help my students discover and bring forward their best creative potentials through the intensive musical studies and practice, and, at the same time, to favor heir initial interest's transformation into a deep, serious passion.\n*** Studio Equipment *** Living Room, Italian keyboard Real Piano PRO 2\n*** Travel Equipment *** Honda Insight 2011\n*** Specialties *** As a Bass - player, I have been performing in Big-Band Orchestras, Jazz Sextets, Quartets, Trios, Duos. I was also a Progressive-Rock Band Bass-Player. John Pretlor Band, (R&B style, Soft Jazz) hired me, as a Bass Player, before I went to Mannes College, to study Composition.\nMusic Theory - wise, I have taught Fundamentals of Music, Elementary Music, Music Theory I, II, Keyboard Harmony, Music Analysis, Post-Tonal Theory.\nJayshree April 20, 2016\nMy son, Siddarth has been learning Mr.Vasily for about 2 and half years now and I can tell that Mr.Vasily is a great teacher. He's dedicated and expresses a lot of patience when my son forgets or misses his notes. Mr.Vasily also encourages Siddarth to excel by being constructive and not in a negative way, which both my husband and I really appreciate. To excel in anything, it's important to have a good teacher, and we are very happy that our son's learning from one such teacher!\nPriya S. March 23, 2016\nIn home Verified Student\nVasiliy has been working with my 7 year old for around six months now. He is a very patient and loving teacher with a strong work ethic. He takes effort to build the foundations of piano, both theory and practice. We have been very pleased with his guidance.\nJuniper T. February 6, 2016\nIn home Verified Student\nVasily is a wonderful teacher. He is kind, patient, and relates very well to our shy daughter. He is teaching her to \"know\" the piano, in a delightful and disciplined way, and of course he is teaching her to play. Juniper leaves every session feeling accomplished and happy! We are very happy to have started lessons with him.\nI've been a full time professional musician for 13+ years and have toured all over the world performing with music icons like Chacka Khan, Beyonce, and many more. I have a lot of experience with many different styles of music and I love sharing this gift with anyone who's interested. My teaching philosophy is simple: Get students playing music! It's much easier to understand the nuts and bolts of music when put into the context of the music you like.\n*** Lesson Details *** I like to design a lesson plan for each individual student. The first lesson will begin with a basic assessment of skill\nlevel. We will discuss goals for the lessons then get down to work! Students will learn: 1 Technique. the proper physicality to increase dexterity and avoid injury. 2 Music theory and comprehension. Usually through learning songs and analyzing different concepts they incorporate 3 Ear-training/pitch recognition. Strengthening the ability to \"pick up\" new material more quickly and translate ones Ideas to the instrument. 4 Music appreciation/Musicality. Listening to new and different types of music focusing on the different elements that make up a great performer/performance.\n*** Studio Equipment *** Music Studio: piano, stereo system, no drum there! room to sit for parents A1: drum kit, whole performance set up with recording studio, room for parents to sit in on lesson\n*** Travel Equipment *** amplifiers, cd/mp3 player\n*** Specialties *** ear training, most musical styles (pop/rock, r&b, reggae, jazz , world)\nKirk April 4, 2016\nBass Guitar ·\nI have been playing bass on and off for about 20 years. I went to Aaron for some help with technique and to better understand music theory for writing bass lines. After the first lesson, I'm very confident he can help me significantly improve my skill set.\nMatt April 1, 2016\nIn studio Verified Student\nGreat first lesson - solid mix of higher level theory and the rudimentary skills I need.\nGrace K. March 16, 2016\nIn home Verified Student\nAaron was a very patient teacher. He made the lesson exciting. He also tuned my guitar.\nI have been playing bass for 10 years. In 10 years I have been working with bands from live shows and studio recording.\nAlbino was born in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, a country in southern Africa known for its rich musical and cultural heritage. Fueled by the resourcefulness and determination that have always characterized Mozambicans, he built his first guitar at 16 from a 5-liter can of oil, scrap wood, and strings made out of electrical cords.\nDrawn to the sounds of neighborhood street musicians in Maputo, Albino began to play in a number of local bands. As with his home-made guitar, Albino wanted to combine styles and incorporate diverse elements in his music. For his talents to grow, he knew he n\needed experience new places, cultures, and sounds.\nWhile studying music education and Performance at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique, he heard about the Berklee School of Music in Boston, USA, where he could expand his musical horizons. Soon after, he was one of the first students to receive a full scholarship to Berklee through the African Scholars program. In 2009, he settled in Boston, Massachusetts.\nAt Berklee, he was exposed to a variety of influences, but wanted to go deeper into the roots of jazz and expand his knowledge of music. He auditioned and was selected to participate in the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, which is directed by Danilo Perez and the residency teachers, including Joe Lovano John Patitucci, and Terri Lyne Carrington. The Institute emphasizes an artist's original vision in jazz, and has helped Albino find his own unique voice in the art form.\nAlbino still felt the absence of his own Mozambican traditions in his music. With the help of his mentors, Richard Bona and Lionel Loueke, two of the most prominent African musicians in the United States of America today, he began to bridge that gap.\nToday, Albino's music succeeds in combining many disparate parts into an organic whole. It incorporates his musical experiences from Mozambique, the U.S., and many other places around the world, combining rhythmic patterns and musical concepts to create a unique Moz-Jazz sound. He will always continue to combine and capture the energies of different musical traditions to create a unified and original musical style.\nAlbino's original composition “Mozambique Dance” was recorded by Jazz Revelation Records, a student-run record label at the Berklee College of Music, for the 8th annual album released in 2011. He also recorded “Awusiwana,” his own composition, for the Berklee 2012 summer album. His debut album, also called Mozambique Dance, is to be released in Spring 2013.\nAlbino is an active musician, and has performed in several countries including Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Italy, the U.S., and Mexico. He has also produced and recorded various projects in Mozambique and in the United States. In 2012, he will graduate from Berklee College with a degree in Music Production & Engineering and Performance, and a minor in Acoustics and Electronics.\n*** Lesson Details *** My teaching method dependent on the type of student. All my students will be treated with care and commitment to help them archive the their goals in the lessons. We will be using book method as a way to follow a clear direction. Learn songs, chords, scales, phrase, theory and more material that is needed for better musical foundation.\nI am open to what the student wants to achieve over short and long terms.\n*** Studio Equipment *** Desk top and Laptop Mac Computers Protools, Logic Pro, reason Focusrite 56 Liquide, Focusrite Dual Mono Mic pre BBe Maximizer Bricasti, M7, sterreo reverb\n*** Travel Equipment *** Guitar Guitar Amp Mic Laptop Mbox\n*** Specialties *** Guitar Bass Guitar Voice Ukelele Song writing Production Audio Recording Mixing Mastering\nAmalie April 3, 2016\nIn home Verified Student\nAlbino was great with my young daughter. She was really excited to practice what he taught. She was able to play a simple song after her first lesson. He connected with her.\nAs a guitarist I have been in many situations where a band needed me to pick up a bass. Aside from some experience playing it, I also have a solid understanding of the bass's role in music and am familiar with basic techniques.\nEducation: ---------------- Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music from Tufts University 2012\nMasters of Arts Degrees in Composition and Modern American Music Guitar Performance from Longy School of Music of Bard College 2015\nTeaching Experience ---------------------------- -2 years experience teaching private lessons. -Camp counselor, piano teacher, and recorder teacher at Tufts' Summer Community Music camp. Worked with an age rage of 5 - 12. -Tutored a local composer the music notation software Sibelius. -13 years experience with guitars.\nLesson Plan ----------------- I want t\no gear our lessons towards what the student is most interested in learning. We will talk about personal goals (ex. master a favorite song, write your own songs, learn to jam with other musicians, improve your site-reading). Those goals will be the primary focus of our lessons so you can accomplish your wildest musical dreams.\nBen October 3, 2015\nIn home Verified Student\nIt has only be a few lessons, but Phill seems great with our young kids who are just starting to learn ukulele and piano. He is very patient!\nErick G. September 16, 2015\nIn home Verified Student\nPhillip has been providing guitar lessons for our family for 6 months now, and we could not be happier. We have a 6 yr. old and an 8 yr. old taking lessons, neither of which had any experience. He is also giving me lessons, and it had been years since I had played. He is very patient with my sons and keeps trying to keep the lessons fun and light to keep them enjoyable. I would definitely recommend taking lessons with him, across all skill levels.\nPetra H. August 13, 2015\nIn studio Verified Student\nGreat guitar teacher, my son likes his lesson so much.\nWith over 15 years experience teaching guitar lessons full time and performing internationally, I have enjoyed working with students ranging from beginner to advanced in all styles whether it be Jazz, Rock , Heavy Metal, Folk, Blues and everything in between. It is my goal as a teacher to evaluate your existing level and work to inspire you and to help achieve your goals. Whether you want to study Jazz Improvisation, Van Halen, James Taylor, or Guns and Roses, I believe all styles are interconnected and your technique, theory, ear-training, and musicianship can be developed through any style t\nhat interests you. Above all else, learning how to play the guitar should be FUN and INSPIRING! So, contact me on take lessons and lets get started!\nResume is available upon request.\nThanks for reading and I hope to hear from you soon. Sincerely, Phil S.\nPhil's compositions showcase a variety of ideas and are quite effective at setting up the soloists to explore the various permutations suggested by his tunes. His compositional originality is matched by his incisive playing which ranges from \"inside\" lyricism to hard edged, riff based, screaming rock and satisfying surreal textures aided by his intelligent use of electronics.\" - David Kane, Cadence Music\n\"With demonstrative technique, Phil is cognizant of the tradition but thinks outside of the box.\" -Mark F. Turner, All About Jazz\nAkhter April 25, 2016\nBlues Guitar ·\nOnline Verified Student\nMy son likes the instructor a lot. He has been learning from him for close to a year now.\nJohn F. January 8, 2015\nMusic Performance ·\nAlthough I'm not technically a student of Phil's, I learn a lot from him every time I play and teach with him. We perform regularly at Berklee, where I'm a professor, and we give concerts and masterclasses all over the Northeast together (most recent was at Cornell). Phil's a warmhearted, patient, brilliant teacher and an outstanding and creative musician, seamlessly putting together everything he knows--jazz, shredding, classical--there's no boundaries for him! He's great at explaining things, and he never belittles a question, no matter how dumb you might have thought it was. Phil's a great friend and a great teacher. -John Funkhouser, Berklee College of Music, Boston\nMike W. December 23, 2014\nIn addition to being the most talented guitarist and musician I have ever had the opportunity to play with, Phil is an astoundingly good teacher. I've played guitar for 8 years and taken private lessons the entire time. Phil has been my teacher for the past 2 years and in that time I have progressed as a musician more than I could have ever imagined. Phil has been the biggest factor in my decision to major in music, due to his unrivaled musical talent, his kind, unassuming, (and funny) demeanor and his seemingly limitless knowledge of the fretboard. He is well versed in so many genres of music, and has such an effortless grasp on improvisation. Any guitarist, from immediate beginners to seasoned professionals, can learn so much from Phil. Need I say more?\nStudents are raving about their Bass Guitar instructors on TakeLessons.\nCheck out some of these recent reviews.\nReview by Dylan\n\"Great mentor for a buding young bass enthusiast.\"\nNew York, NY teacher:\nReview by Catherine\n\"Collin is an amazing teacher! I started taking lessons with him on the electric bass - I was a beginner on the instrument, but I had lots of previous musi\ncal knowledge. Collin was incredibly patient with me from the get go, and had a lot of insight as to what tunes would be good for me to start with and what exercises and scales would suit my specific level of learning. He was patient and kind with me, and went at exactly the pace that I needed him to. Whenever I was struggling with a scale or bass line, he would immediately notice, slow down, and show me note for note what I was supposed to play. Conversely, whenever I was learning quickly and with ease, he would react accordingly and speed up the information a bit or move on to more difficult tasks. Collin a very skilled musician himself which makes it all the more inspiring to take lessons from him. He makes every lesson fun and informative. After each lesson, I felt pumped to practice and play during the week between our lessons. Collin is an incredible guy and a wonderful instructor - highly recommended!!!\"\nPhiladelphia, PA teacher:\nReview by Jason\n\"This dude is awesome. He really knows his theory and he definitely won't waste your time. Such a fun guy too. Highly recommended.\"\nDetroit, MI teacher:\nReview by Leonard Sgarlata\n\"Rick is a wonderful teacher. I already have some previous music experience, so he is working with me at my level instead of starting me from the beginning\n. I would definitely recommend him as a teacher.\"\nSan Antonio, TX teacher:\nReview by Doug\n\"Explains material and lessons clearly a great instructor.\"\nAustin, TX teacher:\nReview by Chad\n\"Jason is an amazing teacher very informative knows his stuff 100% would recomend him to anyone looking to learn to play AWESOME TEACHER\"\nSan Diego, CA teacher:\nReview by Pauline\n\"Dustin is a fabulous instructor. He is so very talented and yet that doesn't stop him from being super patient and understanding. He has a way of showing\nstudents at their level what areas need improvement and how best to get there. His positive attitude and kindness makes him a great instructor. Thanks Dustin.\"\nNew York, NY teacher:\nReview by Rocco\n\"I had the pleasure of studying with Jeff a few years ago and found him to be an excellent instructor; well versed in his knowledge of harmony, bass techni\nque, soloing through complex changes, jazz, rock, funk, ext. He was instrumental in bringing my playing to a higher level. Not only is he a great musician/instructor but also a caring and patient individual who has deep insight and is able to craft lessons based on your level of musicianship. Did I fail to mention, he's one helluva nice person.\"\nLos Angeles, CA teacher:\nReview by david\n\"So glad to have Jonathan as my teacher\nI am a busy professional in my 50s that wanted to learn how to play the electric bass. After searching the web for\nin home lessons I found Jonathan Greenberg. Jonathan is an absolute professional with the ability to quickly connect with a student at their level. I have already learned an amazing amount in 4 weeks and have confidence that Jonathan will have me playing at a high level in a very short time period. He gives me \"homework\" and he follows up to determine if I am staying with it. A great mannerism and teaching style make Jonathan a teacher well worth asking for.\nRichmond, VA teacher:\n5955-Star Student Reviews in", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "V.27 No.10 | 3/8/2018\nFestival Ballet Albuquerque Arts Interview The Story of a Dance Dance phenom Jock Soto collaborates with legendary musician World-renowned ballet dancer and choreographer Jock Soto's work will premiere during the Festival Ballet Albuquerque's Sacred Journeys, which will not only feature the legendary Soto, but the live music of another luminary, Robert Mirabal. Film Sunday Movie: Adrift Sunday, Dec 9: 1:30-3:30pm Central & Unser Library\nSee a screening of the film for free, rated PG-13.\nWellness Circling Hands Qigong Sunday, Dec 9: 2-3:30pm Albuquerque Open Space Visitor Center\nDoing a circle both with the hands and the body, the movements are designed to move fluids and Qi in the body which can help with the effects of aging and energy. Registration recommended.\nWords Anella and Childs Signing Event Sunday, Dec 9: 3-4:35pm Page One Bookstore\nAnthony Anella and Mark C. Childs, conservationists and architects, talk about and sign their latest N.M.-centered effort,\nImagine a City That Remembers: The Albuquerque Rephotography Project. Song & Dance That Holie Eve Sunday, Dec 9: 4:30-6pm St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church\nMúsica Antigua de Albuquerque performs a concert of rarely heard Christmas music from the middle ages and renaissance. The program features both vocal and instrumental works.\nImage via Pixabay Wellness The Cuddle Revolution Sunday, Dec 9: 7pm Source\nThis is a completely platonic experience for adults only. Please arrive on time. Use a series of exercises to practice consensual and safe touch, as well as authentic connection.\nStage It's A Wonderful Life Sunday, Dec 9: 7:30-9:30pm Albuquerque Little Theatre\nThe saga of the everyman whose dreams of adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty, whose guardian angel descends on Christmas Eve to save him from despair.\nStage In the Blood Sunday, Dec 9: 8pm Aux Dog Theatre\nA contemporary urban satire inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s\nThe Scarlet Letter.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Liberate Your Voice.\nwith Rebekka Goldsmith\nI believe in the power of the voice, and I trust that anyone who can speak can sing. I have worked with people of all ages to find their true voice and let it out.\nI support pre-beginner through advanced singers to explore breath work, melody, harmony, improvisation, rhythm and song as a means to deepen their connection to their own voices. All voices are welcome in my studio.\nJoin me for individual lessons or hire me to work with your group.\nVOICE LESSONS - individuals and groups\nI have been singing since I was three years old. It is one of the things I love the most.\nWhat I’ve discovered over the years, however, is that most people have a complicated relationship with singing. When they learn that I am a singer, people tell me their stories — they wish they could sing, they were told to mouth the words in choir, friends advised them, “not to quit their day job”. Yet often, they confide, their desire to sing is still with them.\nWhen people sing together they lose track of themselves as individuals. Singing together is a courageous act — and when met by other voices there is an uplifting that we can’t achieve on our own. Together we can raise our level of connection and our vision of what is possible.\nI work with existing choirs to develop vocal confidence, improve blend and build community.\nI am available for half day, full day and multi-session programs. Please contact me to discuss your interests.\n“Rebekka is one of those teachers that you always wished for. She digs deep and works on many levels of musical knowledge, intuition and communication and provides openings for transformation both personally and vocally. She is attentive, caring and highly skilled. She has a way of seeing your best potential and helping you get there. She is joyful and enthusiastic about music and her students in a way that makes learning fun and playful.\"\nvocal coach, NBC's \"The Voice\"\nI offer individual lessons in vocal expression and exploration, improvisation, technique, phrasing and performance. That said, there are many ways to find your unique voice and deepen your creative intuition. I am committed to working with you in ways that best meet your individual interests and goals. I accept students ages 7 and up and offer most lessons in my home. To schedule a lesson, please contact me.\n$90 - 60 minute session\n$120 - 90 minute session\n$150 - 2 hour session", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sunday, October 10, 2010\nBorn this day in 1959, Kirsty MacColl was a different kind of pop star; foregoing the glamour trap, she preferred to be known for her solid musicianship, and was. Likewise, her unwillingness to conform to genre - she performed in whatever oeuvre struck her, from punk to torch to Latin - meant that the narrow-minded record industry had nowhere to put her.\nBeginning with this song - A New England - which was written by Billy Bragg, MacColl became known as a 'cover queen'; whether she was covering other people's songs, or they were covering hers (most famously, Tracey Ullman with They Don't Know and, more recently, Bette Midler, whose version of In These Shoes appears on her album Bathhouse Betty and was featured on Sex and the City), spoke of MacColl's lack of ego. Arguably her biggest hit is a duet with the Pogues called Fairytale of New York which reappears every Christmas.\nHer tragic death in December 2000 at the hands of Mexican millionaire Guillermo González Nova has never been satisfactorily resolved; nevertheless, a memorial bench in London's Soho Square has given her friends and fans alike a place to congregate on the Sunday nearest this date to sing her songs in remembrance.\nshare on: facebook", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The smooth voice of James Ross can be heard as he drops his debut EP, Clouds. Clouds is a collection of four songs that shows such a distinct sound in each melody. From the hard-hitting rock feel of his single “Mama” and an alt-rock endeavor on “Lovin You” you are transfixed on his magnetism and energy he introduces into each piece of music. My personal favorite is the single “Nasty Girl”, a slow tempo brought into light with a violin and his vocals. Fans of Ed Sheeran should take note. James Ross will be touring after the release of this EP and can be seen performing with YouTube star Andie Case. Check out his title track below, “Clouds”.\nPhoto Cred: Innovo Management", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Contact me at firstname.lastname@example.org\nThis is my first year at Benson West, and I have been enjoying getting to know the staff and students of the BW family. I grew up in the Kansas City area then graduated from Grace University in Omaha. I am thankful to spend my time outside school with my husband and twin daughters. Music has been part of my life since beginning piano lessons at age 6, and it is a joy to encourage our students to continue developing a love for and understanding of music as they grow into well-rounded, respectful young people!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "University choir sings Christmas classics\nThe unique atmosphere of the University of St Andrews’ traditional Carol Service is now available on a new CD of Christmas favourites sung by St Salvator’s Chapel Choir.\nReleased on Sanctiandree Records, the album features the world premiere of Philip Stopford’s setting of Ave Maris Stella, commissioned for Voces8 by the St Andrews Voices festival in 2015, and captures the very special atmosphere of the University’s annual Christmas Carol Service when staff, students and members of the St Andrews community join together to celebrate Christmas.\nClassics on the new album, entitled A Nativity Sequence, include perennial favourites by the late Sir David Willcocks (Ding dong! Merrily on high, Sussex Carol), John Gardner (Tomorrow shall be my dancing day) and Harold Darke (In the bleak mid-winter). The CD also includes festive chorale preludes for organ by Bach, Brahms and Karg-Elert performed by organ scholars George Barrett and Sean Heath.\nUniversity Organist and Choir Director, Tom Wilkinson, said: “St Salvator’s Chapel Choir takes great joy in singing Christmas carols for the annual University Carol Service, an event which has a unique atmosphere.\n“For that reason I think it was relatively easy to give this CD a certain magical touch. The singers warmed especially to Philip Stopford’s sublime Ave maris stella, which receives its world premiere recording on this disc.”\nChoral singing has been a key feature of student life at the University since its foundation in 1413, with early sources referring to the ‘Choristi Sanctiandree’, when all students were obliged to sing in the chapel.\nToday’s chapel choir members are all supported by choral scholarships, allowing them free access to weekly singing lessons and touring activities. The choir are also important ambassadors for the University, touring internationally on an annual basis in addition to their extensive ceremonial and liturgical duties in St Andrews.\nRecent performances include appearances with Dame Emma Kirkby at the Thueringer Bachwochen and with the Kammerchor Josquin des Prez and the Leipziger Barockorchester at St Thomas’s Church, Leipzig. They are the only University choir in Scotland to sing three services each week during semester.\nNotes to news editors\nSanctiandree, the University of St Andrews’ CD label, is distributed in the UK by Proper Note.\nThe CD is available to buy online now but will be formally launched at the University of St Andrews Christmas Carol Service on Saturday 10 December at 8pm in Holy Trinity Church, St Andrews.\nIf press would like to attend rehearsal for photographs earlier in the day between 2 and 4.30pm, please contact the press office on the number below. Photo opportunities of the choir in red gowns will be available from 2pm and a brass band accompaniment from 4pm.\nIssued by the University of St Andrews Communications Office, contactable on 01334 462530 or [email protected].\nCategory Student experience", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "top of page\nWhether a seasoned dancer, new beginner, or returning student, The Tallahassee Ballet School provides Adult/Teen Ballet classes for all! Beginner/Intermediate level classes utilize a slower pace throughout class to introduce and/or reinforce Ballet terminology and technique. Intermediate/Advanced level classes build on the foundations of Ballet terminology and technique while moving through a faster-paced class.\nbottom of page", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "For mega fans of Carrie Underwood, the Grammy-Award winning, multi-platinum recording artist has sure come a long way since her days as a timid country gal who could barely move to a beat on American Idol. Since then she's come out of her shell like a roaring lioness, and her signature big voice has taken the country music world by storm with hits like \"Before He Cheats,\" \"An All-American Girl,\" and \"Blown Away.\" (And yes, these days she also has no problem showing off her cowgirl rhythm on stage.)\nAlongside Brad Paisley on Wednesday night, Underwood took on her sixth stint as co-host of the Country Music Awards (CMAs) with some eyebrow raising wardrobe changes and performed a medley of hits off of her new album Blown Away.\nIn celebration of all things Carrie, check out her musical beginnings take flight with this awesome mini bio!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rosie Hodgson at Colindale Folk Club\nRosie Hodgson at the Colindale Folk Club Monday 8th Oct\nRosie has a strong, pure voice that beautifully delivers traditional folk songs. Many fine examples can be heard on her website. http://www.rosiehodgson.com\n\"Rosie brings a ruby-richness to lyrics new and old...\" – Folk Radio UK\n\"Fresh and forthright...\" – FATEA Magazine\n\"...Rosie has firmly established herself as one of the finest folk artists...her live sets are intimate and unorthodox, and her voice is very much a dreamlike thing; emollient and charming...\" – Chi Live\nFloor spots start at 8:30. Free entry, good food and a friendly pub - the Chandos Arms, 31 Colindale Avenue, Colindale, NW9 5DS.\nUpcoming acts for 2018/2019 ======================= November 12th - Iona Fyfe December 10th - Anna Tam January 14th - Bernard Hoskins", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Arielle Goldman\nMusic is the universal language. It is the one, beautiful thing that brings all of humanity together because it does not judge. It does not stereotype. It does not hate. It simply provokes joy and community for all while always permitting every person to bask in its wonderful and pure beauty. Music speaks to an internal place inside, traveling down to the soul and engulfing the body in a feeling of fascination and love; it places the listener into a utopian world of complete serenity where pain and suffering is no longer something to hide, but something to express to let others know that they are not alone. Music is curved lips, a tapping foot, a clapping hand, and a boasting tongue. It is the medicine of the mind, and the pandemic has taken its full potential away. Therefore, what has the Byram Hills community done to overcome this issue?\nThe arts department at the High School has always been spectacular. The students are immensely talented as evidenced by the work displayed in the art show (which was online this year) and the performances at the numerous shows, including those of musical theatre and those put on by the band, choir, and orchestra. Before the pandemic hit, these displays of work would happen very frequently, and the talented kids could share what they had worked on with a large audience, something they really enjoyed doing. Now, not only is it hard or against the COVID-19 restrictions to practice music in school, but these kids are missing out on the opportunity to perform and express their hard work and talent. Nevertheless, the students have continued to play and/or sing music in a whole new way with optimistic minds. They refused to let the pandemic fully stop them from doing what they love, so adjustments were made. Although it is not what it could have been, the students and teachers of the arts have done a fantastic job of changing the curriculum and practicing music in a way that complies with the guidelines, and the results have been very interesting.\nFor example, Bailey Goldstein, a senior who has been in the band since freshman year expressed, “Because we aren’t able to play inside the school, we started to play outside on the bleachers, which has some inconveniences. For example, we have to move the instruments and stands each day we play, which is a major limiting factor to getting maximal playing time. Also, the wind makes it extremely difficult to keep music in place. Because many people knew that band would be very difficult this year, a lot of members didn’t return and took a different elective instead, and along with only having half the band, losing members has created a considerable gap in the full sound we normally produce. However, although the conditions for normal band class are not the same, we still persevere and do the best we can to intertwine a non-stressful period with musical talent. I am really happy that we still have the opportunity to pursue our musical talents, something that is very important to everyone involved.” While struggling to adapt and persevere through the difficult time, Bailey and the rest of the band have remained appreciative that they can play at all and hopeful that they will be able to continue making music in the future. These struggles may force students to realize that they truly can overcome anything that comes their way and come back even stronger.\nAdditionally, the choir and jazz choir had to readjust the way they were making music, especially since the COVID-19 guidelines entailed that there would be no singing indoors, even while wearing masks. Ben Goldman, a junior that has been in the choir for three years and a new jazz choir member claimed, “I think that Mr. Piali has done as good of a job as possible in terms of keeping the choir experience during the pandemic. Obviously, it’s not the same as pre-pandemic choir, but we are still able to sing as a large group outside on the fields. Of course the fall weather is nice, but I am worried about what happens in the winter. As for jazz choir, we’ve been singing via Zoom, and it’s been good, but jazz is a small group so why not take advantage of the good weather and meet up outside? Overall though, it’s been a smooth transition to socially distanced choir.” While singing outside is a great opportunity, it can also be very hard to hear others while singing, which is very important in choir since the four different parts (sometimes more) are supposed to balance and blend with one another. Also, like many other things now, the choir is taking things day by day since no one knows how plans will change in the winter.\nAlong different lines, the orchestra has been able to play in school since it does not involve excessive blowing or singing, which can spread the virus more quickly. However, it has been a challenging experience; the whole orchestra is not there at the same time since the school is in a hybrid schedule. Playing in a small group can be intimidating while also difficult. Sydni Shamus, a sophomore, stated that being in the orchestra has made her realize that “more than ever before, we have to appreciate and use the time we have in school because it is so scarce. We are so lucky that we are even allowed to be playing as an ensemble in the school because of COVID.” COVID-19, while having terrible and horrifying consequences, has also made students realize how lucky they have been to go to school, sit in a classroom with their friends, eat lunch in the cafeteria, and more importantly, do music.\nDuring these hard times, teachers and students in the arts have remained positive and have worked through challenges that have kept them from making music in extraordinary ways. Byram Hills has and will continue to fight! Students have been immensely strong and cooperative, and teachers have been extremely creative while adapting to the new way of teaching. Music is the universal language that provokes joy and community, no matter what comes in its way!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Limited Class Sizes - Fewer students in the dance classes means each child will receive more personalized attention and learn more. Our studio limits all regular classes to maximize learning.\nOur 5500 sq. ft. facility features 3 dance rooms, the largest room is over 2100 sq. ft., both with \"floating\" dance floors, high ceilings, full-length mirrors, a \"state of the art\" sound system, and viewing windows for parent observation. Our raised, \"floating\" dance floors help reduce fatigue and prevent injuries.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lily Allen Olivia Rodrigo US Supreme Court\nDuring her performance on Saturday at the Glastonbury Festival, Olivia Rodrigo actually threw\nthe Supreme Court justices a giant \"f-k you.\" The artist invited Lily Allen to the stage to perform\nher popular song \"F-k you,\" which she then dedicated to the five Supreme Court justices who on\nFriday voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. \"The song is for the justices: We hate you,\" the former Disney\nChannel star continued. We hate you. Following that, they sang the British singer's 2009 single, which\nhas the lyrics \"F-k you.\" Lily Allen appeared with the singer as a special guest.\nThe former Disney employee referred to the Supreme Court's ruling as \"devastating.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Comments: I Fall Down debuts at this concert; no more of the main set is known. I Will Follow is known to have closed the concert, but any other songs played in the encore are not known. Setlist and comment provided by U2gigs.com.\nWas one of these songs performed outstandingly during this show? Click on the name of the song to mark it as such!\nWe would like to know which shows you attended and which shows you are going to attend. On this page you can see which members attended or are going to attend this show. Maybe you can send some of them a private message to meet up or talk about this show.\nNo U2start users attended this show.\nHere you can find and post reviews of this show. We encourage everyone that either attended or listened to this show to write a review. Currently we have 0 reviews for you to read.\nWelcome to our audio page, on this page you can download lossy (MP3) and sometimes even the lossless (mostly FLAC) audio recordings (also known as bootlegs) of this show. The available recordings are sorted on the type of recording and the quality of the recording.\n\"I'm really enjoying changing the odd lyric. \"I first saw her face high on a desert plane.\" That's a beautiful change. In \"New Year's Day\" I sing, \"It's true, it's true, the people break through.\" Little tiny little things that keep me close to the songs.\"\n- Bono on changing lyrics in live performances, 2017\ndid you know\nU2 were first called Feedback when they started out in 1976, in 1977 they changed their name to The Hype and in 1978 they became U2.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Your wedding day is one of the most important days of your life, and you want it to be perfect. Choosing the right songs for your wedding playlist is a key element in creating the perfect atmosphere. A great wedding DJ in Mississauga can help you choose the perfect songs to make your wedding night unforgettable. Here are 8 must-have songs for your wedding DJ playlist in Mississauga.\nThe First Dance\nThe first dance is one of the most memorable moments of your wedding day. It’s the moment when you and your partner get to show off your moves to all of your guests. Here are some great songs to consider for your first dance:\n– “At Last” by Etta James\n– “Can’t Help Falling In Love” by Elvis Presley\n– “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith\n– “Never Stop” by SafetySuit\nOnce everyone has finished dinner, it’s time to get the party started. Here are some songs that are sure to get your guests on the dance floor:\n– “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars\n– “Don’t Stop the Music” by Rihanna\n– “Get Lucky” by Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams\nSlow dances provide an intimate moment for you and your partner, and for your guests as well. Here are some great songs that will set the mood for a romantic slow dance:\n– “All of Me” by John Legend\n– “Say You Won’t Let Go” by James Arthur\n– “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran\nBest Group Songs\nGroup songs are always a great way to get the crowd involved and dancing together. Here are some of the best group songs for your wedding playlist:\n– “I Gotta Feeling” by Black Eyed Peas\n– “Shut Up and Dance” by Walk the Moon\n– “Livin’ on a Prayer” by Bon Jovi\nClassic rock songs are always a hit at weddings, and for good reason. Here are some classic rock songs that are perfect for your wedding playlist:\n– “Sweet Child O’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses\n– “Don’t Stop Believin'” by Journey\n– “You Shook Me All Night Long” by AC/DC\nH3: Pop Favorites\nPop music is always great for getting the party started. Here are some pop favorites that will make your wedding night unforgettable:\n– “Shape of You” by Ed Sheeran\n– “Cheap Thrills” by Sia\n– “All About That Bass” by Meghan Trainor\nCountry music is great for creating a relaxed and fun atmosphere. Here are some country hits that are perfect for your wedding playlist:\n– “From the Ground Up” by Dan + Shay\n– “Die a Happy Man” by Thomas Rhett\n– “My Girl” by Dylan Scott\n80s and 90s Throwbacks\nThrowback songs from the 80s and 90s will get everyone singing and dancing along. Here are some great throwback songs for your wedding DJ playlist:\n– “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston\n– “I Want to Dance with Somebody” by Whitney Houston\n– “Livin’ La Vida Loca” by Ricky Martin\nIn conclusion, choosing the right songs for your wedding DJ playlist is an important part of creating the perfect atmosphere for your special day. Whether you prefer classic rock, country or pop music, selecting a mix of these songs will make your wedding night unforgettable. EliteDJ.ca is a professional DJ service in Mississauga that can help you create the perfect playlist for your special day.\nHow many songs should be on my wedding DJ playlist?\n– The number of songs depends on the length of your reception, but a typical wedding playlist includes around 60-80 songs.\nCan I request specific songs to be played at my wedding?\n– Yes, you can always request specific songs to be played at your wedding. Make sure to communicate with your DJ well in advance to ensure all your requests are included in the playlist.\nCan I ask my wedding DJ to create a custom mashup for my first dance?\n– Yes, many wedding DJs are skilled in creating custom mashups for first dances. Make sure to communicate your desires with your DJ.\nWhat types of music do wedding DJs typically play?\n– Wedding DJs typically play a variety of genres, including pop, rock, country, and oldies. They will work with you to create a playlist that fits your personal preferences.\nHow can I ensure my guests will enjoy the music at my wedding?\n– Communicate with your wedding DJ, create your playlist in advance, and include a mix of songs that everyone will enjoy. It’s impossible to please everyone, but a good mix of music that includes something for everyone will ensure everyone has a great time.\n– Choosing the right songs for your wedding DJ playlist is an important part of creating the perfect atmosphere for your special day.\n– The first dance, party starters, slow dances, best group songs, classic rock, pop favorites, country hits, and 80s and 90s throwbacks are some of the must-have songs for your wedding DJ playlist.\n– Communicating with your wedding DJ, creating your playlist in advance, and including a mix of songs that everyone will enjoy will ensure everyone has a great time.\n#WeddingDJ #TorontoDJ #weddingdj #BridalShower #WeddingEntertainment #GuelphWeddingDJ #torontoweddingdj #gtadj #GuelphDJ", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Aimee Mann who used to sing in Til Tuesday gained some well earned success with the music from the Magnolia soundtrack a few years back. And on his new album she continues to deliver beautiful thoughtful singer songwriter pop with a folk edge. All in a modern sounding production with a popedge. Its a nice album and if you have her other albums in the collection this is sure a must. If you havent got stuff by her I could say that you have missed something. Imagine a mix between Chrissie Hynde and Shawn Colvin and were quite ahead of the girl and her music. Solid release without getting exceptional.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Have you ever seen an oboe up close? How does it produce a sound? How do you play a trombone? The Calgary Civic Symphony debunks all of these questions and more at its yearly “Build and Orchestra” event this Sunday at the National Music Centre. Meet the musicians, see and hear the instruments up close and partake in a scavenger hunt to find all the orchestral instruments. The National Music Centre will be open to the public to explore the building with interactive activities. With your regular admission to NMC/Studio Bell, families are encouraged to find all the musicians, receive a sticker to “Build an Orchestra” one instrument at a time, and place their stickers on their map of the orchestra. “Build an Orchestra” will run from 11 am to 12 pm.\nThe Civic Symphony invites you to enjoy a free concert from 1 pm to 2 pm in Studio Bell. You’ll enjoy a couple of movements or sections from Dvorak’s Symphony No. 4 in G Major. The star of the show, however, is Thomas Yu. Mr. Yu, or should we say, Dr. Yu, is a local periodontist who won the Seventh Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition, crowning him the best Amateur concert pianist in the world! He’ll be performing the first movement of Rachmaninoff 3rd piano concerto.\nCome and join us this Sunday, September 29th at The National Music Centre/Studio Bell – fun for the entire family!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "All Aboard as we embark upon a musical journey along London’s great river and enjoy music associated with the city’s iconic sites situated along her banks.\nYour musical experience will be further enhanced by a compilation of historic film footage – collected by the London Film Museum\nThe London Chamber Orchestra will be playing the Westminster Waltz, Handel’s Water Music, Eton Boating Song, Yeomen of the Guard Overture, Lambeth Walk, Boyce Symphony No. 1, Holst’s St. Paul’s Suite and Old Father Thames.\nThis is an opportunity to compare the past with the present as you pass the impressive construction sites of the Tideway project, which will ecologically preserve every aspect of the Thames for the benefit of future generations.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Create a Website Account - Manage notification subscriptions, save form progress and more.\nView All Calendars is the default. Choose Select a Calendar to view a specific calendar. Subscribe to calendar notifications by clicking on the Notify Me® button, and you will automatically be alerted about the latest events in our community.\nCOME ENJOY LI G H T S & M U S I C, LI V E P E R F O R M A N C E S, V I S I T W I T H S A N T A, F O O D & R E T A I L V E N D O R S, KIDS CRAFTS, HOT AIR BALLOON GLOW\n5:30 PM Event Opens\n5:30 PM Live performances\n6:00 PM Mayors Remarks and Tree Lighting\n6:15 PM Santa Arrives\n6:25 PM Blue Ridge School Choir, Balloon Glow, Santa Pictures, and more.\n7:30 PM Balloon Glow Ends\n8:00 PM Event Ends", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "not agree Yes, really. agree with told..\nCD A Woman s Soul, vocals, was My Intuition - Carl Beluga And His Orchestra - Starswinger (CD the despotism claimed by Professor C. Metaphorically, it was different than any other type of music that was being made at the time.\nBrendan Moneghan, many of which have one of the bassists mentioned above playing bass. Blige and Kendrick Lamar cover Bruce Springsteen s 41 Shots listen. Unrelenting Blues bends, and decided to release the song and premiere it on Willie Nelson s exclusive SiriusXM channel Willie s Roadhouse Ch.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ableton is proud to announce a new member to the Live family, Live 6 LE. Step into computer based music with more fun and less hassle. Live 6 LE provides a simple interface and the pro-level features you need for recording, songwriting, producing, remixing and DJing.\nThe Live Concept – Live offers two main views—the Session View and the Arrangement View—that interact in a powerful and unique way, allowing you to create, produce and perform your music all in a single application. Here is the principle behind each view:\nLive’s Session View acts as a musical sketch and launch pad, encouraging you to try out new ideas and improvise freely. Each cell in the Session View grid can hold a loop, recording, MIDI file, complete song or any other musical element. These ideas can be recorded on the fly or dragged in from the Browser, combined and played in any order you wish.\nThe Arrangement View offers a timeline-based approach for traditional recording, MIDI sequencing, arranging, editing and other musical production tasks. And when you improvise in the Session View, all of your actions can be recorded into the Arrangement View, where they can be edited and perfected whenever you like.\nLive 6 LE Features:\n* Studio-quality recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz\n* Sixty-four audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks per project\n* Powerful and creative MIDI sequencing for software instruments\n* More than twenty built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and EQs*\n* Includes two software instruments—Simpler for creative sample-based synthesis, and Impulse for dynamic, sampled drums*\n* Supports VST and AU effects and instruments*\n* Real-time time-stretching and warping of AIFF, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and MP3 files for DJing and instant remixing\n* Tweak Live’s controls in real time with any MIDI controller—just MIDI-map it or choose from a list of popular supported controllers for instant mapping\n* Multicore and multiprocessor support\n* All editing of your musical creations is nondestructive, so you can experiment without worries\n* Single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation\n* Sampled Instruments: Essential Instruments Collection LE Edition by SONiVOX (boxed version only)\n* Loops and construction kits: Unnatural Selection by Puremagnetik (boxed version only)\n* A wide selection of presets for Live 6 LE’s instruments and effects\n* Extensive built-in step-by-step tutorials\n* Printed reference manual in English, Spanish, French, German or Japanese (boxed version only)\n* Localized software menus, tutorials, and PDF reference manuals available in English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese\n* Live LE is limited to twelve simultaneous built-in audio effects, eight built-in instruments, two AU/VST effects and two AU/VST instruments per project.\nLive 6 LE is available as a download for 129 EUR/149 USD and boxed versions for 169 EUR/199 USD.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "D'Addario EJ60+ 5-String Banjo Strings, Nickel, Light Plus, 9.5-20\nD'Addario 9.5-20 Banjo Nickel Light Plus\nThe D'Addario 9.5-20 Banjo Nickel Light Plus string set is designed for 5-string banjos and offers a balanced tone and comfortable playability. These strings are made with high-quality materials and precise winding techniques, resulting in a clear and articulate sound.\nThe 9.5-20 gauges of these strings are designed to provide a light and comfortable feel, making them ideal for players who want to play for extended periods without experiencing fatigue. The plain steel and nickel-plated steel construction provides a bright and lively tone that cuts through the mix without being harsh or brittle.\nThe plain strings are made with high-carbon steel wire, which provides excellent intonation and tuning stability. The wound strings are made with nickel-plated steel wire, which offers a warm and balanced tone with plenty of projection.\nOverall, the D'Addario 9.5-20 Banjo Nickel Light Plus string set is an excellent choice for banjo players who want a set of strings that provides a balanced tone, comfortable playability, and excellent tuning stability.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Diplomatic Celebration of Independence Day of Kazakhstan in The Hague, The Netherlands\nLovely music, pleasant atmosphere, interesting people….\nA reception on the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic of Kazakhstan was held at the theater Diligentia in The Hague, on November 29th.\nThe state ensemble of classical music Camerata of Kazakhstan gave a concert and our company Intercatering served great variation of canape’s and amuse’s.\nUnforgettable music of the great composer Kurmangazy was performed for the sophisticated audience. They also enjoyed the Beatles tunes arranged in baroque style.\nProminent politicians, business leaders and the diplomatic corps, as well as Kazakh citizens and students attended the concert.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Discover DiscoTek | Electronic Dance Music Community\nNo products in the wishlist.\nFuture bass is a music genre that arose around 2006 in the United Kingdom, United States, Japan, China and Australia. It is a broad genre of music, offering a wide variety of sounds and rhythms normally produced by a synthesizer.\n© DiscoTekClub 2018 “Feel the Vibe”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Eddie Dridi had the opportunity to play his first concert in Toronto’s prestigious, 3000-seat Massey Music Hall, But instead, Dridi, the young, one-man-band recording artist star, chose to debut at the House of Jazz, an obscure venue house in his hometown of Montreal.\nBacked by five other young, local musicians, Eddie gave an encouraging debut performance Friday before about 300 people.\nJon Serrney introduced the 26-year-old prodigy – who had produced, composed, arranged, and played all the instruments on his debut coming album.\nHe Strutted across the stage, He was cool, he was cocky and he was sexy. Eddie Dridi is a real showman. He reached out to the audience, and the fans, especially the teen-aged girls, embraced him.\nHis thirty-minute show had a smooth and soulful vocal. Onstage, Dridi tore into an uproarious, Fresh Pop hard-funk sound.\nAt times, it sounded like kind of a youthful mixture of Michael Jackson (if he had Jimi Hendrix as his guitarist) combined with Larry Graham.\nEddie Dridi’s singing was more thoroughly professional and quite convincing. He demonstrated a fascinating, female-sounding falsetto with uncommon range.\nUnfortunately, several times his voice was swallowed by the feedback and clutter of the inferior sound system. Even the pretty acoustic ballad he did was marred by an annoying buzz in the sound system.\nDespite delays for technical problems, the pacing of the show was effective. Eddie Dridi, who played several different instruments during the concert, opened with catchy moving songs, he then moved into a pop-rock-funk and Latin guitar instrumental and his dance-oriented moves.\nEddie’s contagious, talent should appeal to soul, pop, and disco house audiences alike.\nAs a whole, Eddie Dridi’s performance clearly indicated he has extraordinary talent. Combined with careful direction, time, experience, and refinement, that should spell a royal future for Eddie Dridi.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Write this down lyrics george strait\nLyrics to write this down by george strait: write this down / write this down / i never saw the end in sight / fools are kind of blind. Write this down chords by george strait learn to play guitar by chord and tabs and use our crd diagrams, transpose the key and more. Important: the song above is not stored on the chordie server the original song is hosted at wwwallcountrytabscom chordie works as a search engine and provides on. Write this down (song), a single by american country-music singer george strait this disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title write this down. Write this down by george strait listen ad-free with youtube red show more show less garth brooks song lyrics 24,523,300 views 3:55 alan jackson.\nWrite this down lyrics by george strait at lyrics on demand. Lyrics to 'write this down' by george strait: take my words and read them everyday keep them close by, don't you let them fade away so you'll remember what i. Capo i / [intro] / g g a a d d g d / [verse] / d g i never saw the end in sight a fools are kind of blind d thought everything was going alright g d but i was running. Song - write this down artist - george strait album - 50 number ones all rights belong to george strait and his record label i. George strait write this down lyrics & video : i never saw the end in sight fools are kind of blind thought everything was going alright but i was running out of time. Write this down lyrics and chords are intended for your personal use only, it's an outstanding country song recorded by george strait.\nLyrics for write this down by george strait i never saw the end in sight, fools are kinda blind thought everything was going all right. Letra 'write this down' enviar letra write this down de george strait por e-mail:: lyrics licensed by lyricfind: ayuda.\nI never saw the end in sight fools are kind of blind thought everything was going alright, but i was running out of time 'cause you had one foot out the door, i. Sing write this down by george strait with lyrics on karafun professional quality try it free. Write this down lyrics: i never saw the end in sight, fools are kinda blind thought everything was going all right, but i was running out of time 'cause you have one.\nWrite this down george strait, lyrics, chords and tabs archive with over 1 million lyrics with tabs and chord for guitar, ukulele, bass, drums and many others.\nThe official music video for write this down premiered on youtube at the end of march 1999 listen to george strait's song above write this down lyrics. Write this down song lyrics by george strait find the accurate lyrics from sing365com. Write this down lyrics: i never saw the end in sight fools are kind of blind / thought everything was going alright, but i was running out of time.\nWatch the video, get the download or listen to george strait – write this down for free write this down appears on the album 50 number ones discover more music. Lyrics of write this down by george strait: chorus, baby write this down take a little note, to remind you in case you didn't know, tell yourself i love you. Write this down this song is by george strait and appears on the album always never the same. Write this down - george strait - free chords and lyrics learn this song on jellynote with our interactive sheet music and tabs play along with youtube video covers.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Kate Upton the American model known for her appearance in the 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue for which she was named Rookie of the Year, recently decided to join in the “dougie craze”.\nWhats is Dougie?\n“Teach Me How to Dougie” is a song recorded by American hip hop group Cali Swag District. The track was produced by Runway Star for Cali Swag District’s debut studio album, The Kickback (2011). The song was written by Chanti Glee, Charon Childs, and Corey Fowler. The song was released digitally on April 12, 2010 as the first single from the album through Capitol Records.\nThe song refers to the Dougie dance, which is similar to the jerkin’ movement. The song is referenced in the 2011 Bruno Mars single “The Lazy Song”.\n“Teach Me How to Dougie” was a commercial success, and peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaked at number number 9 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and peaked at number 6 on the Hot Rap Songs. It was certified platinum in the United States.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The VanderCook College of Music undergraduate Jazz and Percussion Ensembles will present their fall concert on Thursday, November 8 at 7:30 p.m. at 3125 South Federal Street. The concert will feature works by Stanley Turrentine, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Johnson, Hoagy Carmichael, Gordon Goodwin, and others. Special guests the Plainfield Central Percussion Ensemble will also perform. Admission is free. The National Band Association at VanderCook College of Music is also holding a food drive for St. James Food Pantry. There will be a bin at the entrance for anyone to place boxed or canned goods. All support is greatly appreciated during this wonderful time of giving.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Uma - The Moth & The Dove\nA passionate, swirling sound of a romance between Lucy Lu and Uma over their lockdown in Spain. Recorded where Uma spent her teenage years making music with Puma Blue & Nilufiya Yanner, the affinity of her peers bleeds into her music. Delicate & moody vocals of lovers yearning & pulsating beats skip between the duo’s ballad, recalling trip-hop drenched in humanity and vulnerability.\n\"meditations on honesty and vulnerability\"\nLine Of Best Fit\nJulia Sophie - I Wish\n“I Wish” by Julia Sophie, an introspective but propulsive track that will be the first of her second EP, ‘</3’ (heart-broken). The intricate electronics and ricocheting, engine-like beats are balanced by mesmerising spectral vocals that are delicately embroidered together. As an artist whose solo career is informed by her experiences in rock band Little Fish and dream pop collective Candy Says, supporting Debbie Harry, Idles and The Japanese House, she has found her own voice in the click of a vintage drum machine and the unlimited freedom of self-production. Earning her place in the avant-pop sisterhood of FKA Twigs, Grimes, Half-Waif and Natasha Kahn, Julia-Sophie’s palette is a mix of the hot, liquid, cool and electric: she sings of desire and loss, control and release. With praise from BBC Radio 6’s Lauren Lavene, Mary-Anne Hobbs and Nemone and Huw Stephens on Radio 1, Julia Sophie promises to be one of the most hotly-tipped new artists for 2021.\nA new arts and music space from slow dance.\n1 week a month we invite artists and collaborators to the space for projects and events, a curated experience from slow dance.\nSlow Space welcomes people of all backgrounds, ethnicities and genders - intolerance will not be welcome here. No-one will be turned away for lack of funds.\nOver the last half a decade, indie label Slow Dance has been a creative powerhouse in London DIY music circles - The Quietus\nSlow Dance, a series of events that developed into one of the capital’s most distinctive underground arts collectives- NME\nSlow Dance: the collective at the cutting edge of London’s live music scene\nSouth London collective Slow Dance, an early supporter of futuristic prog rockers . -PITCHFORK\nSLOW DANCE '19\nSlow Dance ‘19 is the London music collective and record label’s fourth annual compilation, featuring tracks from collaborating or admired musicians and producers from the past year. It is the longest and most varied one yet, with 18 tracks by incredible new artists, who are asked to submit a track that they feel wouldn’t fit in a standard release. In previous years, the compilations have provided a platform for artists from bands such as Black Midi, Black Country, New Road, Sorry and Goat Girl to release more experimental solo projects as well as giving an opportunity to completely new, unsigned artists. Throughout the year, Slow Dance put an enormous effort into finding the most interesting and promising new acts and the compilation is an opportunity to highlight and provide a platform for this. It acts as a summary of the label’s highlights from artists and tracks of 2019 and things to watch for 2020 - from both within and outside of the label’s own roster.\nCirca 2000 - The Echoing Green\nCajm - I'm Going To Take You Home\nSaint Jude - Elementi\nVanity Fairy - All Night Baby\nLynks Afrikka - How To Make a Béschmel Sauce\nUncle Tesco - Blind\nWaterbaby - i don't want to sing, i don't want to look\nKhazali - Stories\nFelix Raman - penshawdelay\nFran Lobo - Give Me Something\nMerlin Nova - oooooeeeeeyeah!\nGlows - Turn Fast\nPablo Drexler - Weightless/Sinking\nThyrsis - House Of Dust\nAga Ujma - In the ocean\nAvice Caro - Tiny Table\none-four - zen for tv\nJames Martin - Van Gock\nSlow Dance is a London based music collective, label, radio and promotions company started in 2015.\nPlease send any demos to email@example.com, please note we recieve a lot of emails so may take some time to get back to you.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The 12 contestants taking part in next Saturday’s Miss Seychelles … Another World beauty pageant displayed a high level of artistic skills through dances, singing and other performing arts during their Miss Seychelles Talent Show last weekend.\nA panel of jury comprising arts, culture and dance instructors, radio programme producers on arts and music and media columnists writing on arts and culture assessed the 12 contestants during a half-day judging session.\nThe panel of jury looked at stage performance, costumes, talent presentations, personality during performance, originality and creativity and overall performance.\nEach contestant received ratings on stage appearances while presenting themselves neatly and clean in character with confidence, personality and originality.\nThe use of the appropriate costumes contributing to their performance and presentation of their talent was focused upon by the judges.\nThe personality of each contestant during the performance based on facial expressions and how much the contestant puts her own heart and character into their performance was another criteria used to assess them.\nTheir originality and creativity defined as a creative piece of work that is distinctive from other performers was also taken into consideration. This was based on creativity, ingenuity, confidence and personality in presenting an original piece of artistic expression.\nThe contestants’ overall ability to perform and to present an original artistic expression that draws a positive response from the audience made up of family and friends, STB officials, groomers and the organisers was another criteria looked out for by the judges.\nThe winner of Miss Seychelles Talent will be announced on the night of the Miss Seychelles … Another World beauty pageant which will be held on Saturday May 28, 2016 at the ICCS starting at 6.30pm.\nTickets are being sold at R700 each at the STB head office at Espace Building and the STB Tourist Information Office at Independence House.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "New/sealed, presumed mint.\nSarah Vaughan, Clifford Brown – Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown\nLabel: Jazz Images – 37109\nSeries: William Claxton Collection\nFormat: 180gm Vinyl, gatefold LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Mono\nA1 September Song 5:46\nA2 Lullaby of Birdland 4:00\nA3 I’m Glad There is You 5:10\nA4 You’re Not the Kind 4:43\nA5 Jim 5:51\nB1 He's My Guy 4:12\nB2 April in Paris 6:21\nB3 It's Crazy 4:57\nB4 Embraceable You 4:50\nPhonographic Copyright ℗ – Jazz Images\nCopyright © – Jazz Images\nArranged By, Conductor – Ernie Wilkins\nBass – Joe Benjamin\nDrums – Roy Haynes\nFlute – Herbie Mann\nPhotography By – William Claxton\nPiano – Jimmy Jones (3)\nProducer – Bob Shad\nTenor Saxophone – Paul Quinichette\nTrumpet – Clifford Brown\nVocals – Sarah Vaughan\nNew York, December 16 (A1-A4) & December 18 (A5 & B1-B4), 1954\nOriginal sessions produced by Bob Shad\nOriginally released as Sarah Vaughan (EmArcy MG-36004)\n37109 2018 Jazz Images. Made in the E.U.\nOn the cover: Sarah Vaughan backstage at the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre, New York 1960\nPhotos by William Claxton.\nAll photos courtesy of Demont Photo Management.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dive into the rhythmic world of “No Competition,” a dynamic Trap Instrumental crafted by Freed. This Hiphop Freestyle-type beat, resonating with US-style rap vibes, offers an immersive experience for aspiring artists.\nWhat makes it even more enticing is that it’s available for free download, providing a platform for musicians to unleash their creativity.\n“No Competition” encapsulates Freed’s unique production style, inviting freestylers to ride the beat with confidence.\nAspiring rappers and enthusiasts alike can access this energetic instrumental, amplifying the beatscape for those who appreciate the fusion of Trap and Hiphop in the realm of music creation.\nListen to the 🔥 Now", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Theme and incidental music for the British sci-fi series \"Doctor Who\". Songs for the new series revival are composed by Murray Gold.\nNoisecontrollers consists of 2 fulltime producers: Bas Oskam and Arjan Terpstra. Founded in 2005 both with a totally different musical background but with a great preference for Hardstyle (in every shape that is). Their First release was on DJS-Records called “Wanna Freak You” and their second release “Creatures” already on the big Fusion Records. In 2007 their popularity grew strong and they started to perform their live act (including their own MC.\n“ Noisy electro-rock! HKBO are my new favourite Mexican band”\nKeytars & Violins\n\"The Hong Kong Blood Opera is a mind-blowing, ear-melting, blast-furnace, band from Hermosillo, Mexico.\" \"The Hong Kong Blood Opera are the new ÜBER-band from Mexico.\"\nReeperbahn Festival 08 (Hamburg Germany) \"HYPE: It's what's next: HONG KONG BLOOD OPERA.\nTHERE WILL BE BLOOD\nSynth-punks fight their way out of the Mexican\nMeanstreet Magazine (CA) Aug,08 Hong Kong Blood Opera: Favorite SXSW'08 band by KVRX Student Radio\nPaul Blackout (Paul Rayner) Paul started going to 'raves' in 1993, and after collecting many recordings of various radio shows, he started buying records, and a little while later, his first set of decks. First he played old school techno and breaks, stuff like early Moving Shadow and Formation, along with Edge Records, Rabbit City, Bonzai etc etc. After hearing Wedlock's \"Acid Rain\" on Ruffneck, he got the bug for hardcore, and went on to play hardcore techno, such as Ruffneck, Twisted Vinyl, Rotterdam etc until he got into some harder traxx too.\nThere are at least four Victims: 1)The first were a seminal punk band from Perth, Western Australia, in 1977-79. The band's members were Dave Flick (Dave Faulkner) on guitar and vocals, James Baker (drums) and Rudolph V (real name Dave Cardwell; bass). Baker and Cardwell had both been members of The Geeks, formed in early 1977 with Ross Buncle on guitar and a vocalist known as Lloyd. That band had soon folded, but with Faulkner on guitar and vocals, some Geeks songs were revived by a new band, The Victims. Faulkner, while in The Victims, referred to himself as Dave Flick.\nStill Breathing's music draws liberally from the hardcore elements of Turmoil and Vision of Disorder, the moody atmospherics of Deftones and the precision, ten-ton-hammer metallic fury of Sepultura, Meshuggah and labelmates Living Sacrifice while retaining an identity that is remarkably unique. The just-over-one-year-old band has crafted an album worthy of a band that's been around ten times as long. Vocalist Dacey's growl is far more formidable than one could fathom by merely looking at her.\nRandom Conflict began life in late 2005 and started the long process of writing, rehearsing, recording and working as hard as possible to play the music they love. Throughout these two years, countless shows across the length of the UK, including two full UK tours, have seen Random Conflict sharing the stage with the likes of All Shall Perish (USA), The Chariot (USA), Becoming The Archetype (USA), MyChildren MyBride (USA), Knights of the Abyss (USA), An Albatross (USA), Eternal Lord, Azriel, Centurion...\nBorn and bred in Dallas, Texas, the members of Slowride compose an infectious punk sound similar to the likes of Jawbreaker and Pennywise. They're also rockers with a sweet side, deriving catchy fun melodies. The band — which is composed of Dan Phillips (guitar/vocals), Rob Marchant (bass), and Steve Visneau (drums) — hooked up with famed indie producer Ed Rose (Appleseed Cast, Brandtson, Get Up Kids) to record some songs for their Deep Elm debut in late 2001. The fruit of those sessions was As I Survive the Suicide Bomber, issued in February 2002.\n#1 - Rock band from Virginia Beach. #2 - Italo Disco group which released the 'Magic Electronic' 12\" on Harlekin Records in 1984. #3 - Canadian synthpop band from the '80s. #4 - New Zealand Electro-dance band from 80's whose single ‘Pulsing’ spent four months in the local charts.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Did Luther Vandross sing with a group called Change?\nChange1980 – 1981\nLuther Vandross/Music groups\nWhat happened to Jocelyn Brown?\nSince 1990, she has lived in London.\nWho was the lead singer of the group change?\nWhat age is Jocelyn Brown?\n70 years (November 25, 1950)\nWhy did Luther Vandross leave change?\nDue to contractual differences, Vandross refused to sing lead vocals on any of the album’s tracks and was only featured on backing vocals on selected songs. After Miracles, Vandross continued to provide backup vocals for the group until 1981, when he left Change to pursue his solo career.\nWhat Barry White died of?\nBarry White/Cause of death\nBarry White, whose deep voice and lushly orchestrated songs added up to soundtracks for seduction, died yesterday in Los Angeles. He was 58. A statement released by his manager, Ned Shankman, said the cause was kidney failure caused by hypertension.\nWhen was somebody else’s guy released?\nSomebody Else’s Guy (Stanton Warrior’s Crosstep Silky vocal)/Released\nDid Jocelyn Brown sing with Incognito?\nIncognito and Jocelyn Brown version. On 17 June 1991, the song was covered and released by British acid jazz band Incognito and American R&B and dance singer Jocelyn Brown, whose version was the biggest version in the UK. The song was released as the second single from their second album, Inside Life.\nWhy did Luther Vandross leave Change?\nWhat is Change music?\nIn music, modulation is the change from one tonality (tonic, or tonal center) to another. Modulations articulate or create the structure or form of many pieces, as well as add interest. Treatment of a chord as the tonic for less than a phrase is considered tonicization. Modulation is the essential part of the art.\nHow old is Mica Paris?\n52 years (April 27, 1969)\nDid Patti LaBelle marry Luther Vandross?\nVandross was never married and had no children. In December 2017, 12 years after his death, Vandross’s friend Patti LaBelle confirmed that he was gay.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Super Bowl LI consisted of an all-out brawl between the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons, a dazzling halftime performance from Lady Gaga and impressive ads in-between. APM Music is proud to play a key role in some of your favorite commercials by providing the perfect musical backdrop.\n- 31 Jan 2017\nThe Sundance Institute concluded it’s ten-day Film Festival, unveiling an exhibition of groundbreaking and trend-setting films.\n- 25 Jan 2017\nAPM Music is proud to have a played a key role in many of the Academy Award-nominated films from 2016.\n- 17 Jan 2017\nThe people have decided and the results for 2017 People's Choice Award winners are in. We are overjoyed that a number of the People's Choice Awards nominees and winners include tracks from APM Music!\nSee below for the list of the nominees and winners featuring music from APM.\n- 06 Jan 2017\n2016 gave way to an unprecedented amount of entertainment in film and television. We are thrilled that a number of the Golden Globe nominees include tracks from APM Music!\nSee below for a list of the winners and nominees featuring music from APM and click the names to hear some of the scene-setting APM tracks in these productions.\nBest Motion Picture - Drama\n- 19 Dec 2016\nThis year's Realscreen Summit is once again taking place at the Marriott Marquis Washington D.C., from January 23rd-26th where attendees from the factual entertainment TV & film industries will meet! APM Music, which offers award-winning custom music and 500,000 production music tracks, will sponsor each of the coffee stations throughout the week to help keep everyone charged throughout the conference.\n- 16 Dec 2016\nEarlier this month, the New York Times published an article highlighting The Best TV Shows of 2016 and many of these feature scene-setting tracks from APM Music!\nThe shows in this article featuring APM Music tracks include:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Any way you slice it, music is in Will Pate’s DNA. His mother was a piano teacher; his dad, a talented guitar player with a voice to match. Pate hails from Tupelo, a birthplace he shares with a fellow Mississippian with a modicum of talent – Elvis Presley.\nWith that background, it does indeed seem inevitable that music was, as Pate puts it, “something I was going to experience along the way.”\nIn August, Pate’s path led him to the Music & Music Education program at Teachers College, where he balances a full load of courses with a 27-hour per week work schedule – seven as an office assistant in his department and 20 more in the capacity of department instrument manager, overseeing instrument loans, inventory and the scheduling of practice rooms.\nBy ninth grade, marching in an all-state band with a “huge sound,” Pate chose his career. “I wanted to create an experience like that for people who came through band programs after me.” The best way to do that, he realized, was to become a music teacher.\nAs if his plate isn’t full enough, Pate also sets aside time for trumpet lessons and rehearsals with two Columbia University ensembles.\n“I’m deeply involved in the TC community and feel like I’m soaking up as much as I possibly can,” he says.\nPate’s parents waited until he was in the third grade before acceding to his persistent requests for piano lessons.\nThree years later, Pate followed his older brother’s lead by picking up the trumpet. By ninth grade, marching in an all-state band with a “huge sound,” he chose his career.\n“I wanted to create an experience like that for people who came through band programs after me,” he says. The best way to do that, he realized, was to become a music teacher.\nWith that goal in mind, Pate took his trumpet to Oxford and the University of Mississippi, where he majored in music and joined the 315-member marching band.\nAt his first “Pride of the South” appearance before 66,000 Ole Miss football fans at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Pate focused on staying in formation. “I was so nervous I’m not sure I played a single note. But each week after that it became less terrifying and more exciting.”\nIn the meantime, he was developing an appreciation for another genre, musical theater, and dreaming of one day seeing performances on the grand stages of Broadway. The opportunity came toward the end of his senior year, when he was invited to watch a favorite professor perform at Carnegie Hall. Pate convinced his parents to make the trip an early graduation present. Three Broadway shows and one recital later, he was vowing to one day settle in the city that “has so much to offer for not only what you can do here, but for the people you can meet here.”\nBut New York is also the city of the $20 hamburger, and it was only after Harold Abeles, Professor of Music Education, offered him the instrument manager position in the department that he decided to enroll.\nThe schedule has proven demanding, but Pate has still found time to enjoy the city – for example, by using a TC student perk to score an $18 ticket to a New York Philharmonic opening weekend concert.\nAs the audience rose to its feet at the conclusion of that performance, Pate giddily pulled out his phone and snapped a picture of the trumpet section.\nNot the subtlest move, perhaps – but he had to do it.\nIt’s in his DNA.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Starting this punchy mix as if they were actually playing in front of a crowd, house and techno duo OdD surely knows how to get the dance floor moving. Playing one fantastic record after the other, Damian Daley and Danny Dixon show off todays budding musical landscape of young and modern producers. Playing B2B as they have always been accustomed to since they started playing and producing music as long term friends, they curate this special mix as one. It is not clear who is playing what record, which explains a special synergy that is indeed quite hard to locate in many artists who usually play B2B. Super producers too, their musical experience and partnership goes way back to their fathers, who were once reggae musicians. Musical kids, brought up in London, their future looks bright indeed.\n[custom-facebook-feed account=”odd.dj” layout=full type=photos num=8 width=100% height=auto bgcolor=3330]\n[custom-facebook-feed account=”odd.dj” layout=full type=videos num=8 width=100% height=auto bgcolor=3330]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SPIN Singles Mix: 9 Juggernaut DJs, Warbling Spitters, and Lo-Fi Eccentrics\nThe week's finest tracks, featuring Calvin Harris, Kid Ink, Ariel Pink, and more\nWelcome to SPIN’s Singles Mix! Every Friday, the SPIN staff will pick its favorite must-hear tracks from the week for your weekend playlists. From chilly piano-pop to smooth rap to hook-friendly punk, these are the songs you need to hear right now.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "http://www.texasaccordionnet.ning.com - FOR ACCORDIONIST\ninternational music and dance\nThe Spanish song De Colores is played on the violin and sung by the MECCA performer5m2nmn11s at the National Accordion Convention 2013 on March 9, 2013. It i...\nSign Upor Sign In\n© 2021 Created by Daniel Kott.\nReport an Issue |\nTerms of Service\nPlease check your browser settings or contact your system administrator.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Preview Crazy Like Me by Billy Burnette.\nCrazy Like Me by Billy Burnette\nWell as they say ‘there’s many a good tune played on an old fiddle’ and, judging by this cracking release, Billy Burnette is still on top form. He started his recording career in 1972 and his lineage makes him the possible father of Rockabilly. However, if you want to debate that then when it comes to name-dropping he’s peerless. He’s played with Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Roger Miller and was a member of Fleetwood Mac for nine years. Amongst his song writing credits he’s earned royalties from George Strait, Rod Stewart, Cher, Faith Hill, Greg Allman and an icon called Ray Charles. He still remains in demand playing live in Europe and the USA. Such is his musical odyssey that he’s published a book detailing his journey. This is the accompanying record that includes many of the songs on his timeline.\n“Tear It Up”, performed by his father, has been a staple of his live set, it is classic Rockabilly with a drum pattern that places you in Memphis in the mid 1950’s. Against a rocking electric guitar Burnette hollers his stuff as swirling teenage girls attempt to keep their petticoats in place. A roaring start. Next a composition for the Big O roars out – “(All I Can Do Is) Dream You”. It’s here that Burnette’s guitar skills start to become evident. You don’t sit in alongside the people he has unless you know your way around a fret board and so it is here that he strums and picks with fluency and melody.\nAs the journey continues we take in the Fleetwood Mac years and his take on Peter Green’s “Oh Well”. It is sublime with a beautiful 1970’s guitar sound against an insurgent rhythm. The guitar picks, reverbs and soars. In the meanwhile an upright bass stays in step beside the Rockabilly drums. Riveting.\nSome new compositions make the cut including “Ghost Town” with a haunting guitar motif leading us through his tale of a bereft lover. Think John Hiatt meets Tom Petty.\nRay Charles had a hit in 1985 with “Do I Ever Crossed Your Mind”. He reprised this with Bonnie Raitt in 2004. Here he sings this superb ballad against a piano melody and some refined guitar licks. “She’s Going To Win Your Heart” keeps us in the 1980’s with a hit for Billy Raven who took this to #9 on the Billboard Country charts. The pace falls and this piece of Country pop happens around a large dose of Duane Eddy like twang.\nBurnette has produced an album of original Rockabilly albeit with 2017 production values. Where it differs to some of the latest purveyors is that the Country influence is never far away with melody hooks, trilling female back up singers and that spellbinding perfect musicianship. Never do you wait for the chorus to come around or a guitar break to relieve the tedium of earnest young men trying too hard.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "With First Tutors: Music you can search for a Ashford flugel horn teacher. Flugel Horn lessons are an excellent method to begin an entertaining new hobby, acquire a new skill and gain confidence with flugel horn. Try our service to search for Ashford flugel horn teachers and choose which best suits your requirements so you can begin your flugel horn tuition in Ashford immediately!\nThis is the best way to find Ashford flugel horn tutors in the UK, helping you discover Ashford flugel horn lessons close to home and Ashford tutors to assist with any instrument like piano, violin or guitar. We can help you find Ashford flugel horn lessons or a one-to-one Ashford flugel horn tutor to prepare for flugel horn grades and improve your flugel horn skills! Our search will order Ashford flugel horn teachers near you according to their hourly prices and proximity to you.\nIf you are a flugel horn tutor wishing to offer your flugel horn tuition services in Ashford or throughout the UK, please register with First Tutors: Music or learn about us here. Becoming a Ashford flugel horn tutor is a wonderful way to improve your own knowledge through providing flugel horn lessons while helping someone else, all in your local Ashford area!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Drummer, percussionist, and musicologist Galen DeGraf is doctoral fellow in music theory at Columbia University. He is a teaching assistant in music theory and music humanities, as well as a member of the editorial board for the journal Current Musicology.\nHe graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University in 2009, where he received high honors in music for his thesis \"Situating Salsa through Tito Puente's Life and Music,\" as well as the Leavell Memorial Prize from the World Music Program. His current interests include music analysis, rhythm, improvisation, jazz, Afro-caribbean (\"salsa\") music, and non-Western music (esp. solkattu, the spoken rhythms of South India).", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Posted by MasterdeBater774 at ip68-227-28-57.lv.lv.cox.net on January 16, 2004 at 22:00:58:\nIn Reply to: My new favorite song of the moment..... posted by GTJDorris on January 16, 2004 at 21:20:13:\nmy friend kept playing it at his house... isn't it outkast? i'm not a big fan but they got some awesome songs.\nPost a Followup", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Words by Giselle Bueti\nPUNK ASS KIDS\nWith a combination of Hardcore, Punk and Rock n Roll, this week’s edition of PUNK ASS KIDS will have your mind blowing!\nThe Rock n Roll fun kicks on from 11pm till close with the Young Offenders DJ’s.\nDoors open 9pm at Rocket Bar, Feb 4th\nEntry: $5 if on a promoter’s guest list.\nMaking a live debut, Honor Davey will be filling The Exeter Hotel with sweet, sweet original South Australian music.\nWith indie/rock vibes, founding member Heath Trebilcock uses layers of instruments to create a rich, flavoursome sound. If you’re a fan of the Gorillaz, Gnarls Barkley or Blur then you’ll love Honor Davey.\nThe Exter Hotel, 8.30pm, Feb 5th\nSLOE RUIN - EP LAUNCH\nCountry sensation The Sloe Ruin are set to show Adelaide country music ain’t so bad with the release of their debut self-titled EP.\nThe Adelaide based band offer a delectable serving of country goodness, with the six core member’s delivering a combination of delightful sounds that’ll make you want to dance and drink beer.\nThe Sloe Ruin will be launching their EP this Friday at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, joined by folk pop band Cosmo Thundercat. You can expect a roots blend of old country soul and new country swag.\nWheatsheaf Hotel, 9pm, Feb 6th\nTickets: $15 at the door.\n. THE TIMBERS - ALONE/TOGETHER\nCatch Adelaide folk and roots band The Timbers give a live acoustic performance at The Jade Monkey this Friday. They’ll be stringing together an awesome set of tunes with a sneak peak at some new tracks.\nAnd if that’s not enough, they’re going to be supported by themselves! You heard correctly, band members Simon Basey, Ben Roberts and Joe Man Murphy will also be showcasing their solo material.\nIt’s sure to be a special night filled with great music!\nThe Jade Monkey, 9pm, Feb 6th\n. COLLARBONES - 'RETURN' ALBUM LAUNCH\nCollarbones’ Travis Cook and Marcus Whale deliver an electronic/dance/pop vibe that will undoubtedly get you swaying.\nWith Cook residing in Adelaide and Whale in Sydney, the duo haven’t let distance stop them from producing three full-length albums. Since then they have performed collaboratively with Synergy Percussion and released the mixtape Atlantis 2014 featuring the single ‘Burnout.’\nTheir third album, Return, consists of 9 songs documenting the ‘erratic mood swings’ which come after a break up. It explores love and reality, and delivers a compelling sound that shows the collaborators trying to find their own path.\nThe duo will be launching their newest album in Adelaide this Saturday at Pirie & Co. Social Club. If you like smooth dance music you won’t want to miss this! Plus get there early to catch recent Hot Six-er Strict Face, and Sparkspitter in all their glory.\nPirie Social Club, 9pm, Feb 7th\nTickets: $12 HERE\n. FRESH KILLS\nCan’t see the Fresh Kills at PUNK ASS KIDS? That’s okay see them at the Cranker this Saturday!\nThe Crown and Anchor, 9pm, Feb 7th.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Working with lyrics and vocal music presents a special set of challenges and opportunities to burnish your music engraving skill set. In this first of a two-part episode, Philip Rothman and David MacDonald discuss many of the conventions and principles that govern lyric text.\nStaff position, alignment, and spacing must all be carefully considered when setting vocal text, and we sort through the best approaches for presenting the music clearly in relation to the lyrics. Beaming is an issue that has often confounded notesetters — specifically syllabic beaming, where the beams reflect the text instead of the rhythmic groups — and we talk about the change from traditional to modern notation and how best to handle melismatic passages.\nFonts, always a favorite topic of conversation on Scoring Notes, are again worthy of exploration, and why certain fonts are better than others for lyrics. We offer our suggestions there, and also discuss the topics of hyphenation and word extensions that are necessary components of any instance where vocal text is present.\nThere’s much more we cover in this episode, and then in the next episode, we’ll talk about where in the music notation software you can find the settings to control these various aspects and some tips to achieve good results.\nMore on Scoring Notes:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Things went great. We did couple of takes both vocal and guitar. The instrument part was pretty successful but vocal needs more time. I was happy with result though. I hope we have something finished soon.\nCheck video on youtube --> click on the \"wontube\" on the right side menu.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Queen founding members Brian May and Roger Taylor joined Foo Fighters on stage as part of the tribute concert, honouring the late drummer Taylor Hawkins at Wembley over the weekend.\nThis on stage merging of Queen and Foo Fighters began with archival footage being show of Hawkins himself. This footage was shown on the stages’ screens.\nTaylor Hawkins was a long time admirer of the band and the drummer would often take over the mic from Dave Grohl to share a live cover of Queen’s ‘Somebody To Love’ at many Foos concerts.\nAfter hyping the crowd with an imitation of Freddie Mercury’s iconic “ay-oh” chant, Hawkins can also be heard saying “When I was 10 years old, my older sister took me to go see Queen in concert – the first concert I ever saw – and I watched the fucking drummer, and I said, ‘I wanna fucking be him, I wanna do that’”.\nQueen Join Foos On Stage For Live Set\nQueen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor joined Dave Grohl and co for a set of classic tracks from the rock band.\nThis live set saw this new supergroup perform tracks ‘We Will Rock You’, ‘I’m In Love With My Car’, ‘Under Pressure’, ‘Somebody To Love’, and ‘Love Of My Life’.\n‘We Will Rock You’ saw Roger Taylor joined on stage by his son Rufus who played drums, while Luke Spiller of the Struts starred as lead vocalist.\nTaylor was on vocals for ‘I’m In Love With My Car’, while Justin Hawkins took to the stage for ‘Under Pressure’.\nDave Grohl then welcomed Eurovision singer Sam Ryder onto the stage for ‘Somebody To Love’. The Foos singer revealed that it was difficult to find the right vocalist for that track, as Hawkins also sang that song.\n“It might have been Roger that had this idea,” Grohl told the audience.\n“Roger showed us a clip of someone singing along to this next song, and we made one phone call, and within 20 minutes, this person told us that he would come here tonight to sing it with us”.\n“On this exact spot”\nBrian May finished off the set with a live acoustic performance of ‘Love Of My Life’.\n“I did not write this song, it was written by a young boy called Freddie Mercury”, Brian May told the audience. “And in 1986, we were on this exact spot, singing this song together”.\n“And in 1992, exactly 30 years ago, we said goodbye to Freddie in a style similar to this – so I know that Freddie would be very happy to use this song to honour Taylor Hawkins. But here’s the deal: I don’t sing this song, we all sing this song together”.\nThis live performance at Wembley also saw Taylor Hawkins’ son Shane deliver a live performance of Foos track ‘My Hero’. Check that out here.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Milwaukees - The Bland Comfort Of Life With Lloyd Justin\nNo, they are not from Wisconsin, but yes, they do rock. The Milwaukees,\nhailing from New Jersey, have put together 6 songs that are taxing on your\ncounting skills [3 songs in 7/4 time! Crazy!], while at the same time making\nyou bob your head and play air guitar right along with them. \"Planes Above Us,\"\nthe first track, is a great up-tempo emo-rock song, and sets the tone for the\nrest of the album. Even the last song, \"Lloyd Justin,\" starts off with a\npseudo-metal riff, but then kicks into the rock some more. As I mentioned\nearlier, the time changes in here are crazy and seem to come out of nowhere.\nIt's nice to hear the beat change up, and their rhythm section is one of the\ntightest musically that I have heard in some time. The singer's voice for some\nreason reminds me of a cross between Jamie of the Stereo and J. Robbins of Jawbox,\neven though the band doesn't particularly sound like either. The band kind of\nhas a sound like a harder-edged Gameface, or maybe a not as ferocious Husker Du.\nEither way, this EP is a winner, look for big things from this band.\n... new reviews ... archive ...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fun Friday: Give me something to sing about! is where you guys get to see a few songs I like each week. Thanks goes to J.J. at I Read To Much for help with the title.\nThis week is about new music (to me, even). Two of these songs I've only just discovered this week and the full version by this artist of the third was only released recently.\nFirst up is Wine Red by The Hush Sound\nSecond is The Other Woman by Alex J. Robinson\nLast but certainly not least is Darkness Round the Sun by Alexz Johnson.\nWhat are you guys addicted to this week?\nPeace and cookies,", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "the age of 4\nnoun > lugar, local, / verb > instalar, colocar, pôr.\nBeethoven's early music was largely influenced by Mozart. He admired Mozart's music, and actually met him in Vienna at the age of sixteen, whereupon Mozart was so impressed by the young prodigy that he gave him his first composition lesson. Forced to return to Bonn with news that his mother was dying, Beethoven did not return to Vienna until 1792, by which time Mozart had died. Haydn then gave Beethoven further composition lessons for a short time, which is why music from this \"first period\" of Beethoven's composing career strongly reflects the styles of Mozart and Haydn.\nVivaldi had a huge impact on Baroque music. Although Baroque music is usually associated with Bach or Handel, Vivaldi was one of the epitomized composers. His music is basically what Baroque music is about.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jamie Laval's Celtic Christmas\nAsheville Community Theater, Asheville, NC\nJamie Laval’s Celtic Christmas captures the beauty and atmosphere of Scotland, Ireland, Brittany, and Iceland during the holidays. An entertaining and thought-provoking family holiday experience, the show weaves a tapestry of music, dance, poetry, and stories that hearken back to the ancient Celtic celebrations associated with the Winter Solstice and Christmas. Joining Jamie is a cast of young, critically-prasied performers of Celtic harp, woodwinds, guitar, Irish step dancing, and extraordinary vocals.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A chance to see the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform British composer Gustav Holst's The Planets at the London Barbican, in a concert from last September timed to celebrate the centenary of the premiere. But there's a special scientific twist to this concert, as before each movement, Professor Brian Cox discusses what modern science reveals about each of the planets.\nIn the first programme of the series, music agent Emma Banks looks at how the music business finds talent and creates superstars. Over 25 years as one of the top agents in the business, Emma has worked with some of the world's most famous artists, including Katy Perry, Kanye West and Red Hot Chili Peppers. She's seen first-hand the fine line between success and failure, following the careers of hundreds of acts - from geniuses who never quite made it to megastars who conquered the world.\nThe composer examines the history of the past 100 years in music, known as the popular age. During this period, classical music - as it is now termed - seemed to be in decline, but Howard argues that while some cutting-edge works proved too challenging to be appreciated by the mainstream audience, the DNA of the genre is alive and well in musical theatre, cinema and popular music.\nTracing the story of Ella Fitzgerald's life, this documentary film explores how her music became a soundtrack for a tumultuous century. From a 1934 talent contest at the Apollo theatre in Harlem, the film follows Ella's extraordinary journey across five decades as she reflects the passions and troubles of the times in her music and her life. Moving beyond conventional biopic, the film uses images and music to evoke the feel of those times, bringing to life the context of Ella's unique career, featuring interviews from Smokey Robinson, Jamie Cullum, Tony Bennett, Norma Miller and Laura Mvula.\n2020 • Music\nStewart Copeland explores the drums as the founding instrument of popular modern music. Beats that travelled from Africa via New Orleans and across the world are the consistent force behind musical evolution. Stewart plays with some of the most inspiring drummers of the last 50 years, including John Densmore of The Doors, Chad Smith of The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Prince’s musical director Sheila E, New Order’s Stephen Morris and Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins. He goes dancing in New Orleans, builds his own bass drum pedal and checks out hot new bands on Santa Monica beach.\nA journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from the golden age of jazz. Featuring some of the greatest names in American music, including the godfather of New Orleans jazz Louis Armstrong, the King of Swing Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald. Broadcasted as part of the Old Masters, Rising Stars: Jazz On BBC Four season, this film unlocks the BBC archives to explore the words and music of some of the greatest names in jazz. The BBC soon moved on from Lord Reith's proclamation, made in the 1930s, that jazz was \"a filthy product of modernity\", and invited some of the legends from the golden age of American jazz to perform and talk on British television. This film is a series of revealing portraits, from Louis Armstrong, jazz's first great soloist and global ambassador, to Duke Ellington, the ever-suave bandleader and composer who brought a new sophistication and ambition to the music. Count Basie is sheer swing, Dizzy Gillespie provoked a musical revolution with bebop, and Ella Fitzgerald is just incomparable. Through long-forgotten archive and specially shot interviews, Jazz Legends In Their Own Words tells the story of an art form that has been called \"America's gift to the world\".\n2014 • Music", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Over the years AJ City have no doubt been responsible for raising countless number of Talents that have Blessed the Nigerian music scene.\nJust like Daddy Showkey, KayCee, Solid Star, Ortisefemi, to mention but a few From the stables of his new label imprint “Romiz Enterprise Ent“ Comes this talented Act with real names “Odabi Collins” better known as “#Sticker\n” Who apparently have made a name for himself in his neighborhood and beyond over half a decade as he decided to raise the bar in his career.\nHere is something spectacular he Titled “Big Boy\n” featuring one of the King Pin’s of the Ghetto sound “Marvelous Benjy\n” On a mid temple danceable instrumental produced by Marvelous Benjy as both acts displays this immense talent and style that will sure leave you putting Big Boy on repeat.Listen & Download “Sticker Ft. Marvelous Benjy – Big Boy” below:-\nDo you want to download all latest Nigeria Music ? Click here >>N igeria M usic\nTo Download Your Favorite music Videos Click Here>> Music Video\nLATEST NIGERIA MUSIC MP3 @9JATECHS", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Take a dive into the melodic depths of piano music, where every harmonious note is a gentle caress for your senses, inviting you to explore the soothing harmony it brings. The piano's melodic symphony is like a tender hug for your soul, offering a tranquil escape from the chaos of everyday life.\nPicture a tranquil setting where the gentle piano keys resonate through the air, creating an ambiance of serenity. The melodies, like whispers of a comforting lullaby, guide you into a world of peace. It's a symphony that speaks to the depths of your being, encouraging you to pause and find solace.\nPiano music offers a diverse range of emotions and moods, from joyful compositions that can uplift your spirit to introspective ballads that invite reflection. Whatever your mood, the piano has a melody that can resonate with your soul.\nIn today's fast-paced world, the therapeutic benefits of piano music are more important than ever. Scientifically proven to reduce stress levels and improve mood, the rhythmic notes have the power to create a sense of serenity. They serve as a reminder to pause, breathe, and find harmony amidst the whirlwind of life.\nThanks to modern technology, exploring piano music has become exceedingly accessible. Streaming platforms and music apps offer a vast array of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTd63PAlp2I relax]ing piano playlists, allowing you to curate your own customized musical haven. Let the soothing melodies be your companion on a journey to inner peace and renewal, no matter where you are.\nIn conclusion, piano music is a tranquil harmony that invites you to explore the soothing depths of its melodies. Let the graceful piano keys transport you into a state of calmness, offering a much-needed retreat from the clamor of the world. Immerse yourself in the tranquil world of piano sounds for moments of deep peace and renewal.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "DMACC announces new Simon Estes School of Fine Arts\nDMACC President and CEO Rob Denson announced today the new Simon Estes School of Fine Arts at DMACC.\nInitial plans call for the music and theater programs to be expanded and housed under the new fine arts school. But, eventually other programs will be added.\n\"Simon's vision is taking our fine arts program to a whole new level. It's a quantum leap for our program,\" said Denson. \"We're moving forward with his recommendations and decided it's only fitting that the new fine arts school should be named after him.\n“Our goal is to become a destination institution for students, from throughout the Midwest, who are interested in pursuing a degree or career in fine arts. With his help and guidance, we're sure to make that happen.\"\nSimon Estes has been lecturing and giving voice lessons at DMACC for three years as a visiting professor of music and is thrilled that DMACC has decided to put more emphasis on the fine arts.\n\"People are given talents and gifts by God, but many times they don't find out what those talents are during their lifetime,\" said Estes. \"One of our goals is to help students uncover their abilities and inspire them through art and music.\"\nDMACC board chairman Joe Pugel said that it has been an honor for the college to have\nEstes teach here.\n\"His knowledge, experience and tremendous talent have created a wonderful opportunity for our students. His vision for the fine arts is moving the college forward in ways we never could have imagined,\" said Pugel.\nEstes and Denson both credited two, new DMACC faculty members, James Thompson, professor of music and Carl Lindberg, professor of drama, with taking both programs to new, higher levels of achievement.\nEstes noted that the DMACC choir only had a handful of students a year ago. Today, more than 50 students are participating.\nFor the first time, DMACC theater students worked jointly with students from another institution, Grand View University, to produce a new play.\nDenson said the initial work to create the new Simon Estes School of Fine Arts will be on the academic side:\n· Adding the classes needed to provide a comprehensive two-year curriculum in music and theater.\n· Purchasing new equipment and investing in more resources\n· Creating new articulation agreements with four-year institutions, allowing students to\nseamlessly transfer from DMACC after two years.\nDenson said the college has even greater aspirations. \"Someday I would like to see\nus build a new DMACC Fine Arts Center to house these wonderful programs and showcase college and community performances,\" said Denson.\nEstes noted that a fine arts education has great value even if the student doesn't pursue a career in the field. \"Fine arts is a way to explore and grow your creative abilities. It will bring value and focus to all their academic studies,\" said Estes.\nThe new Simon Estes School of Fine Arts will be launched this August at the start of the fall 2019 semester.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Born in Zimbabwe, Africa, Frank started dancing at the Studio School of Dance in Massachusetts under Dede Guercio-Renko at the age of 15. He was initially trained in the Royal Academy of Dancing methodology. He continued his dance studies as a dance major at the State University of New York at Purchase and New York School of Ballet.\nAs a company apprentice, Frank performed with the Hartford Ballet in Connecticut under the artistic direction of Michael Uthoff. He appeared in Hartford Ballet’s productions of Romeo and Juliet, Coppelia and Carmina Burana, as well taking on soloist roles in the ballet productions of Hansel and Gretel and The Nutcracker. He was chosen for the role of The Moor in Jose Limon’s iconic piece The Moor’s Pavane, a unique honor for a company apprentice.\nWhile in Hartford, Frank was also a member of the Works Contemporary Dance Company.\nUpon moving to Indianapolis, Frank danced for seven seasons with the Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, later known as Ballet Internationale, as a full company member under the artistic direction of George Verdak, Dace Dindonis and Eldar Aliev.\nDuring his time with the Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, Frank performed pieces choreographed by George Verdak, Dace Dindonis, Choo San-Goh, Lambros Lambrou, Jill Bahr, George Balanchine and Jose Limon. He danced the roles of Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, the Snow King and Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker, Hilarion in Giselle, and other solo and principal roles in Spartacus, Spring Waters, and The Moor’s Pavane.\nAfter his time with Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, Frank joined Dance Kaleidoscope under the artistic direction of David Hochoy, where he was featured by Hochoy as well as guest choreographers in original pieces such as Puccini People, Love Lies Bleeding, Seasons, and Farewell. During his time with Dance Kaleidoscope, Frank also performed in Indianapolis Civic Theatre’s productions of A Chorus Line, Anything Goes and La Cage Aux Follies.\nAfter retirement from full-time dancing, Frank became a ballet faculty member at the Jordan College Academy of Dance at Butler University. He currently teaches advanced ballet technique, men’s technique, pas de deux and variations at Performer’s Edge Dance Theatre. Frank also holds the position of Associate Artistic Director for Ballet Theatre of Carmel, a pre-professional ballet company and educational component of Performer’s Edge Dance Theatre.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SEEKINGVocalist, Rhythm Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Background Singer, Harmonica.\nHi - I am a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist who has played on the North East music circuit in the UK for many years performing in a variety of musical genres.\nAs well as offering accomplished playing on electric or acoustic guitar, I play pedal steel, lap steel, resonator and console guitars, mandolin, harmonica, tres Cubano and bass. I can also provide backing or lead vocals. Although I act primarily as a sideman to other artists I do also perform on my own on occasion.\nI am also a solicitor with experience in entertainment law, of acting as a producer for both music and television/film and in artist development.\nHave a look at my website for more information.\n(PS - the sound tracks above are just original stuff I wrote and recorded at home - they don't really reflect what I do gig wise )\n- Screen name:\n- Member since:\n- Jul 28 2016\n- Active within 1 month\n- Level of commitment:\n- Years playing music:\n- Gigs played:\n- Over 100\n- Available to gig:\n- 2-3 nights a week\n- Most available:\nVarious - mainly American\n- Rhythm Guitar:\n- Lead Guitar:\n- Acoustic Guitar:\n- Background Singer:\n- Steel guitar:\n- Bass Guitar:\nVarious guitars (electric/acoustic/semi-acoustic), pedal steel and lap steels, Dobro, mandolin, ukulele, harmonics, bass guitar, keyboard - recording and PA equipment.\nShades OnA minor blues composition. All playing by me - Keith Wilson (Billy No Mates). I would love to record this with a big band if anyone is interested?\nFriendsUnreleased recording by Claire Hamill - demonstration of me playing pedal steel guitar\nDance With Me\nDance With MeUnreleased track that I recorded with Claire Hamill. Demonstration of Dobro playing.\nBeing BeautifulUpdate of this track with some guitar work added. All instruments singing, composition and recording by me except for some backing vocals by Caroline Blackburn.\nBack To New Orleans\nBack To New OrleansReminiscence of trips to New Orleans. Words music and all instruments by me.\nThe TakersAngry track - written a couple of years ago whilst working for hypocrites. There's a lot of them about. I particularly hate the sanctimonious, self-righteous kind who hide in the compassion industry.\nLove GrowsAnother original track recorded in Garageband on the iPad Music and Lyrics by Keith Wilson", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mixing & Mastering Engineers, Producers & Songwriters who worked with Contracult Collective\n- Profile namearrow_drop_down\nSearch by profile nameclearsearch\n- Recommended arrow_drop_down\nMy favorite thing about a singer is how they emote. How they transport you while you listen. If you didn't even speak the language, could you still understand the feeling by the tone and dynamics of the vocals? This is something I strive for with every song I perform. It's a heart business and I am here to move yours!\nI have had the opportunity to work with clients from indie folk bands to YG entertainment in South Korea. I love what I do, and I am very invested in my work. My clients' satisfaction is my top priority.\nA multi-genre singer/songwriter, XFactor vocalist and vocal engineer from the UK with 6+ years of experience working for indie EDM, house, dancehall, future bass and pop producers. Releases under SME, Universal & Warner. More than half a million streams & 1,500,000 Youtube views. Offering a full vocal package for your song with a fast turnaround.\nHello. I compose rock, progressive rock and also music for solo classical guitar and duets, trio or quartet of various instruments. I'm professor of classical guitar and music theory and I have composed music for theater. I'm also the producer of my own projects in cooperation with session musicians. Finally, I work as session guitarist.\nWe specialize in audio & visual production services, including music videos, mixing and mastering, photography, beat production, and music marketing. We use top-of-the-line gear, including a Black Magic Pocket Cinema 4k camera, Rode NT1 condenser mic, and a 3rd gen Scarlett Focusrite interface. We are certified & our productions are known globally.\n\"very professional and prompt. the work was really well done.\"\n\"I enjoyed working with FraMusic. He takes the project very seriously as if it was his own song. Nothing better than working with someone who you can trust with your project and who will deliver! He is very patient an...\"\n\"Thank You JVH Productions for the great sound and quality on my song your mix gave the music lots of justice. Keep it Blazing\"\n\"Great job. Ricardo went all the way to make sure we were 100% satisfied. The end results is great!\"\n\"I was very satisfied with Paul. He is very trustworthy. I will work with him again!\"\n\"Thank you for the patience and professionalism you exhibited while mixing and mastering my songs...Juan is a great mix-master who put the time and effort in to please his clients...Give him a try, he is excellent...\"\n\"I got a great mix from David. He knows how to make your song have a great sound and quality. You should try his services, you won't regret. \"\n\"Very impressed with the level of professionalism and the priority on turning out great results that guarantee client satisfaction. Very pleasant to work with, friendly and attentive! Would certainly work with Alex Mor...\"\n\"After Eric I won't look for another engineer. His mixes are beautiful and flawless. Not only are his skills exceptional but he is professional, polite, and prompt. Eric is also very willing to offer suggestions and...\"\n\"Eric is great to work with. He is super prompt in responding to emails, and gets the work done quickly. He worked patiently with me to get the sound I wanted and until I was sastisfied with the outcome. He is a real p...\"\n\"Eric is awesome guy. He change my song to be great. I really appreciate to him. Thank you Eric. I want to work with you again!!!!\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Download Love Piano Rap Instrumental video on savevid.com\nDownload Love Piano Rap Instrumental streaming video in flv, mp4, avi formats direct easily on Savevid.com.\nLove Piano Rap Instrumental\n- To download Youtube videos you should click \"Run\" when java window opens. Enable \"Always trust content from the publisher\" to download seamlessly in the future.\n- Download video\n- Provider: Link:\n- Rate: Please rate this video Views: 4 Downloads: 32\n- Description: a love piano rap beat made for the winner of my rap contest \"PremieR505 \"..please comment, rate, and subscribe.\n- Category: Flag video", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "EDWIN ROXBURGH (b.1937): Les Miroirs de Miró (Thalia Meyers), 6 Etudes (Hiroaki Takenouchi), Piano Sonata (Peter O'Hagan), 2 Pieces (Sally Mays), Prelude and Toccata (Karl Lutchmayer), Labyrinth (George King), Introduction and Arabesques (James Young), For Piano Duo: Reflets dans la Glace (Tong Duo).\nCatalogue Number: 08J118\nDescription: Ranging in style from stimulating pieces within the technical capabilities of young pianists to études requiring considerable technical prowess, the varied piano output of Edwin Roxburgh is striking and original. Predominantly broadly atonal though with clearly defined tonal referents, and with a tendency toward energetic, complex textures, the music is nevertheless too thoroughly structured and clear of direction to be representative of the (now not so new) New Complexity (though the teeming textures shared between two pianists across the entire keyboard in the homage to Debussy that gives the disc its title suggests a certain sympathy in this direction). Works such as the substantial and virtuosically challenging sonata have a tough, sinewy quality and a hard-edged clarity, also present in the icy prelude and cumulatively energetic toccata. Modern in concept and execution yet clearly acknowledging especially impressionistic antecedents, and invariably expertly crafted for the piano, these are works of potent imagination and craftsmanship, well worth investigating.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Creative Makers Project: 'The Harmony of Difference' with Mapledown School\nThis page is a PRIVATE page intended for project participants & partners only.\nSession 1 - 'sounds'\nThe main objective of this session was to engage students with sounds made with ordinary objects and more conventional percussion instruments.\nThe students chose the following objects/instruments to make sounds with:\nJoncy: Pom Pom\nCharlotte: Tin Plate\nGabriel: Chain / Pot\nDudi: Rain Stick\nSession 2 - 'textures'\nThe main objective of this session was to engage students with making print images that we can convert into sound. Print making is messy and fun - the link between pattern and sound/music is hopefully made.\nThe students made the following prints:\nSession 3 - 'patterns'\nThe main objective of this session was to engage students with making patterns that can be converted into music. Dabbing on a grid is similar to adding notes to a manuscript; punching holes in music box cards help to develop fine motor skills.\nHere are some pictures of work in progress:\nSession 4 - 'playing'\nThe main objective of this session was to engage students with playing/initiating sound. Pupils played the Talking Tiles in place of guitar for our welcome-song, then used the tiles to collect recordings of themselves playing the outside instruments.\nHere are some pictures of pupils playing and recording the outside instruments:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sacris solemniis (Johannes Brassart)\n- Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2012-05-23). Score information: A4, 1 page, 56 kB Copyright: CPDL\n- Edition notes: The source (MusicXML) file is zipped.\nTitle: Sacris solemniis\nComposer: Johannes Brassart\nManuscript post 1445 in the Trent codices 87, no. 87-182\nDescription: “Corpus Christi” hymn transcribed from the Trent manuscripts tr87. The notes' values accidentals and colourings are as in the manuscript, the coloured notes are “hemiolæ”. The time signature is missing, the “tempus perfectum” has been assumed from the context; the perfect notes and rests have been dotted and a tie has been used for a note’s value that cannot be exactly represented. The notes' values within the \"ligaturæ\" are as follows: the left upstemmed notes are semibreves - the unstemmed notes are breves - the right downstemmed notes are longæ. The \"musica ficta\" suggestions are in the MIDI and MusicXML files.\nOriginal text and translations\nOriginal text and translations may be found at Sacris solemniis.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jean-Baptiste Dupont is one of the most renowned organists of our time. His artistic prowess is reflected in his success at international competitions as well as his performing career across the globe.\nTrained in the French organ tradition, both in interpretation and improvisation, his new recording of Widor's 8th Organ Symphony combines this tradition with the sound-world of a Cavaillé-Coll organ: the instrument at Saint-Sernin (Toulouse) seems to be custom-made for the most complex work by Widor who confessed that without the experience of listening to the Cavaillé-Coll instruments he would not have written any organ music.\nJean-Baptiste Dupont is deeply rooted in the heritage of the French music tradition. His extensive expertise as an improviser leads to a particular state of consciousness within music: when interpreting repertoire works, he grasps and analyses the creative structures of the work on a deep level; in the moment of the performance, he experiences them like an improviser - the creative process of the composer becomes his own when he plays.\nYou are invited to listen to one of the most famous French organ works, played on a French organ by a French organist - a resounding commitment to the French tradition!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) Lyrics - There's a stranger in my bed, There's a pounding in my head Glitter all over the room Pink flamingo\nKaty Perry - Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) Lyrics\nLast Friday Night Lyrics by Katy Perry\n\"Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)\" is a song by American singer Katy Perry from her third studio album, Teenage Dream. The song was produced by Dr. Luke and Max Martin, who also co-wrote the song with Perry and Bonnie McKee. Perry stated that she was inspired to write the track after a night of wild partying and streaking.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sound of Cinema - British Sci-Fi from the BFI Days of Fear and Wonder - BBC Radio 3 talks to film composer Stephen Price about The Shape of Things to Come, Alien, Gravity, and other science fiction soundtracks.\nGiger's Necronomicon (yt) (nsfw) - a 1976 documentary about H.R. Giger with music by Joel Vandroogenbroeck of the Brainticket.\nThe band/artist is called Kristmann Op, the song is called Hátt fjall,The video of the song is an autotuned alien disco futuristic dreamwave delight\naliens, planet Voca, music The Voca people are 8 friendly aliens from the planet Voca, a musical planet that has no verbal communication but use vocal expressions only. They have heard the music from earth for decades now and with their imitation abilities they have decided to pay a one evening tribute to humanity and to perform the songs they love as musical- gratitude. And, for your continued enjoyment, a more.... because, sometimes we take things way too seriously around here!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Social DistanSong Day Five: Lotte Betts-Dean & Ensemble x.y\n01 April 2020, 10:00 - 23:55\nThis event will be broadcast from Various\nRemember that you can find texts and translations of all the songs that were due to be performed today in the 'Explore' section on the main menu above, or by going to the original event listing and clicking on the Programme tab.\nHelen Abbott presents her talk 'What's the Stress? Finding your Feet with French Poetry':\nHelen is joined by Mary Bevan and Joseph Middleton for a conversation about French song and its interpretation:\nLotte Betts-Dean and members of Ensemble x.y. discuss their programme and contemporary song more generally. A listening playlist is below.\nHere are links to the works referenced by Lotte and Ensemble x.y:\nA number of other recordings of contemporary vocal works, including David Bird’s “Series Imposture” and songs by Brett Dean, Judith Weir and Wolfgang Rihm are on Lotte Betts-Dean's website: https://www.lottebettsdean.com/listen\nRemind yourself of Lotte Betts-Dean and Joseph Havlat's winning recital at the Young Artist Platform auditions last year:\nMezzo-sopranoPraised by The Guardian for her “irrepressible sense of drama and unmissable, urgent musicality”, Australian mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean’s wide ranging repertoire encompasses opera, oratorio, contemporary music, art song, chamber music and early music. A versatile concert artist performing predominantly in Australia and in the UK, recent highlights include her debut with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis (Stravinsky Perséphone), performances at Buxton International Festival, St John’s Smith S... Read Full Biography\nEnsembleEnsemble x.y is a London based group of performers, composers and curators specializing in new music and contemporary performance practice. Dedicated to the creation and performance of new works in intersecting fields such as music, performance art, art activism, sound art, radio art and art/science, Ensemble x.y has commissioned and performed over 100 new works by UK and International composers since their founding in late 2014. Their most recent performances include appearances at the Waterloo Music festivals, City University, St John&r... Read Full Biography\nSpeakerProfessor Helen Abbott is a specialist in nineteenth-century French poetry and music at the University of Birmingham (UK). She writes about word-music relationships deployed in poetic language and critical-philosophical texts. An expert in using digital methodologies, she directs the AHRC-funded Baudelaire Song Project which has recently launched a database of over 1,700 songs in 25 languages, and 40 different musical genres www.baudelairesong.org/search. The project also showcases a new networked model for analysing and visualising word/mus... Read Full Biography\nSopranoPraised by Opera for her “dramatic wit and vocal control”, British soprano Mary Bevan is internationally renowned in baroque, classical and contemporary repertoire, and appears regularly with leading conductors, orchestras and ensembles around the world. She is a winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist award and UK Critics’ Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent in music and was awarded a MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2019. In the 2019/20 season, Bevan makes her role debut as ... Read Full Biography\nPianistPianist Joseph Middleton specializes in the art of song accompaniment and chamber music and has been highly acclaimed in this field. Described in Opera Magazine as ‘the rightful heir to legendary accompanist Gerald Moore’, by BBC Music Magazine as ‘one of the brightest stars in the world of song and Lieder’, he has also been labeled ‘the cream of the new generation’ by The Times. He is Director of Leeds Lieder, Musician in Residence at Pembroke College, Cambridge and a Fellow of his alma mater, the Royal A... Read Full Biography\nThis event is part of a series:\nIn these strange and unsettling times, we're delighted to present our much-reduced virtual spring festival in place of Spring Song. From 27 March to 4 April, we'll be bringing you exclusive content to enjoy from the artists and speakers who were due to take part. Artistic Director, Sholto Kynoch, tells us more about what's coming up in the video below... [youtube url=http...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Experience Tim Burton’s Academy Award-winning 2010 fantasy film Alice in Wonderland on the big screen in the glorious surroundings of the Royal Albert Hall, with Danny Elfman’s magical score being performed simultaneously by a live orchestra and choir.\nDirected by Tim Burton and written by Linda Woolderton, Alice in Wonderland is an imaginative new twist on Lewis Carroll’s original beloved novel and sees a 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) return to the whimsical world she first entered as a child. With the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), the White Queen (Anne Hathaway), the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) and the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), the extraordinary characters all come to life richer and more colourful than ever.\nThis high-definition screening with live orchestral and choral accompaniment from the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, the Maida Vale Singers and the Cardinal Vaughan School Schola Cantorum, all conducted by John Mauceri, will bring the record-breaking film to life in an incredible feast for the eyes, ears and heart, captivating an audience of all ages.\nThis screening will be the World Premiere performance of a newly scored soundtrack for the film’s finale. Danny Elfman, who composed the original score, has written a new ending which will be played live by orchestra and choir, and soloist (to be announced). Elfman himself will be in attendance for this special event.\n‘I felt that something big and dynamic deserved to play out the end of the concert so I wrote something completely new to play from the end of Alice’s Theme to the very end of the credits. London will be the first time this will be performed.’\n- This film has been rated PG\n- All ages welcome. Those aged 2+ must have a ticket.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Nicole has been dancing since the age of three. She originally focused on ballet and later added jazz, lyrical, stage (musical theatre), tap, hip hop and modern. In 2007 Nicole achieved the mark of distinction on her intermediate RAD exam. She has attended both Dupree Dance Expo, in Seattle and Triple Threat Dance Convention, in Vancouver, on scholarship. Nicole has performed in the BC Country Music Awards in 2005, in the Vancouver Olympic Closing Ceremonies in 2010, and in Disneyland in both 2005 and 2011.\nNicole trained as part of the Scholarship Dance Vancouver 2012-13 company where she challenged herself to take her technique and artistry to the next level. Nicole continues to learn through experiences at the DanceLife Teacher Convention 2013, DanceLife Retreat: The Future edition (focusing on the 8 and under crowd) in November 2013, and getting certified by Acrobatic Arts. She is now in her final year of study for her BA in Dance Education from the RAD and Bath University. Nicole loves performing and tries to inspire that same passion in her students. She believes that dance should be a fun, positive environment to learn not only dance but important life skills about hard-work, personality, sportsmanship and self-confidence.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Raised on music, learning from my metal head father, my grandfather who worked with Buddy Holly and Johnny Cash, and my cousin who drummed for several punk acts. I taught myself guitar starting at the age of 6 and later on taught myself drums and bass. Ive produced full on beats and EDM tracks with my iPhone, and made albums with bands in studios.\nIm a music producer and multi-instrument session artist for hire, Im proficient in drums, guitar, bass, and know my way around DAWs and studios. Whether your a band, a singer-songwriter, solo act, or hip hop artist Im your guy no matter the genre.\nSend me a note through the contact button above.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "List of top 10 songs by Michelle Marsh. Full list of songs by Michelle Marsh including albums. Michelle Marsh Discography. Complete list of Michelle Marsh songs. Music by Michelle Marsh, including lyrics and music videos.\nThis website is part of the FamousFix entertainment community.\nLoaded in 0.13 secs.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Danvers / Desire EP\nTitle: Desire EP\nLabel: Boogie Cafe\nCat. #: BCB008\nFormat: 12 Inch\nCountry: Great Britain\nTrack Listing:Fast becoming the golden boy of a new generation of broken beat producers, Danvers shows no signs of slowing up with this latest release on Boogie Café.\nFour cuts of soulful broken beat tinged deepness, kicking off with 'Desire' a double bass groover interweaved with hazy pianos and chopped up vocals. On remix duties, Harry Wolfman lays down a woozy, sun-drenched, emotive rework. Awash with jazzy keys, dreamy synths and tight drum loops offering up the perfect soundtrack to kick back to, beachside, Pina Colada in hand…\nOn the B side, Danvers is back at the helm with 'Can't Let Him Know' an afro tinged, bruked up jam, heavy on the live bass, syncopated synths & vocal litanies. Last up, 'Someone To Count On' is a crunchy, late night, soiree coupling a monstrous bass synth, crushed up drum hits and sleazed out pads.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Musical In A Week\nAlways wanted to do a musical but can’t commit to the 10 week rehearsal period? Do auditions make you nervous? Then this is for you!\nWe have not one but TWO Musical in a Week’s for the January school holidays!\nJoin us and have a blast learning performances from the delightful Fame JR. (High School) or Moana JR. (Primary School) during our fun-filled 5 day musical theatre bootcamp, concluding with a performance for family and friends.\nYou will be taken through engaging vocal, dance and acting masterclasses as well as learning in depth character development and the art of story telling through musical theatre.\nHigh School Students\n- 17th-21st Jan, 9am until 4pm\n- $495 for the week\nThe 5 day bootcamp beginning on Monday 17th January 2021 concludes with a FREE performance for parents and friends at the Civic Playhouse on Friday 21st January at 6:00pm.\nPrimary School Students\n- 10th-14th Jan, 9am until 12:30pm\n- $350 for the week\nThe 5 day bootcamp beginning on Monday 10th January 2021 concludes with a FREE in house performance for parents and friends on Friday 14th January at 1:00pm.\nEvery student receives a production t-shirt and a musical theatre gift bag with all their resources for the week. Upon completion of the program they will also receive a certificate and a professional headshot.\nCreative Kids Vouchers can also be accepted!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Premiere: Draper – “Jealous”\nGet your party playlist spruced up with London producer Draper’s strobey, fierce new track, ‘Jealous’.\nDRAPER – dreams, beatmaking and “liquidstep”\nFrom the tender age of 16, dubstepper Draper’s music career has gained considerable reach, even landing him a runner-up slot at the prestigious Laurie Anderson competition (judged by iconic curmudgeon Lou Reed) in 2010. With his full-length debut record set to drop, Wonderland sat down with the Kent-based beat wrangler to ask how he intends […]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Music Gear News\nBloc Party's Kele Okereke to release solo album in June\nElectric guitar player and Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke has announced he is to release his debut solo album in June.\nThe record is to be called The Boxer and will be available to fans from June 21st 2010, following the release of first single Tenderoni a week earlier on June 14th.\nOkereke told NME that the album will mark a move away from Bloc Party's indie roots to showcase his love of dance music.\n\"I've said from the beginning I'm into dance, it gets me excited and I think this record is going to go some way to prove that to people, hopefully,\" the electric guitar player said.\nWith Bloc Party currently on hiatus, Okereke is not the only member of the group to busy himself with other projects.\nGuitarist Russell Lissack is set to join Ash for their forthcoming UK tour, which gets underway in Southampton on April 19th.Posted on 7 Apr 2010 09:10 to category : Band / Celebrity News\nRelated Music News\nThrough a collaboration with Martin, Sheeran's latest signature model features artwork from his latest album '÷' and has been built to his exact specifications.\nAn icon who helped propel the rock 'n' roll movement to new and unprecedented heights. Chucky Berry is praised by many as a founding father of modern music.\nFounding guitarist of legendary LA band Y and T Joey Alves passes away due to complications relating to Ulcerative Colitis. Documentary on soon to follow.\nDestroyer Cola is to be the latest release in rock veterans Kiss' long line of merchandise currently available to the general public for purchase\nIn a recent unconfirmed report, frontman of famous rock and roll outfit Guns N' Roses is said to be heading into the studio with Australian rock veterans AC/DC\nNever before has music been so accessible. With social media, tab sites and forums at your immediate disposal, learning your favourite song couldn't be easier.\nRecent Music News\nWith the advent of various new files formats and the cancelling of several licensing programs, the MP3 is speculated to soon become a thing of the past.\nRenowned for their legacy of revolutionary amplifiers and guitar pedals, Gurus have fast established themselves as a leading voice in the guitar industry\nControl the harmonic content and output of your tone in one fell swoop. Designed for all things gritty and tenacious, Earthquaker's Erupter puts fuzz back on the map.\nJBL Professional has launched a competition that gives aspiring musician the opportunity to record in a professional facility with renowned producer Steve Levine.\nOne of contemporary jazz's most revered figures, the legendary Django Reindhardt's Levin Deluxe archtop Guitar is to go on auction at the end of the month.\nBOSS' Multi-dimensional processing technology enhances and reacts to specific articulation, encouraging a consistently high quality sound free of compromise.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Early in 2001, in their \"50 Great Recordings\" series, Philips reissued the 1958 Sofia recital by Sviatoslav Richter. You may also acquire the recital in the 2 CD \"Great Pianists of the Century\" series where it is in tandem with Richter playing Prokofiev piano sonatas. I have neither heard that latter release nor ever heard any issue of this Sofia recital before, so I listened to it with \"fresh ears\".\nReviews here and elsewhere warned me that the sound was barely tolerable, and that audience coughing was too intrusive. Well, I can report that, once the \"Pictures\" begin, poor sound quality is forgotten. This is a riveting performance. The piano's dynamic range is well enough suggested, the recording quality is better in the other items, and I was not disturbed by any audible background hum. To those who complain about audience coughs I say: firstly, attend more concerts yourself and become accustomed to this phenomenon and, secondly, regard such sounds as reminders of a live performance before a large audience.\nNo one is likely to attend any live performance as brilliant as this.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Thought it'd be interesting to see how you guys like to record things like demos and EPs, assuming you don't have a label backing you that is!\nMy band's started to record our first demo, we've opted to record it all ourselves, utilising our own recording gear, a practice studio we're friendly with (for drums) and some ghetto recording techniques (hung up duvet as a vocal booth... =P).\nWe're getting some good results which is lucky cos we don't have the cash for studio time.\nSo, what do you guys do? =)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- This event has passed.\nCOURSE – COMPARATIVE LOVE MELODIES – 20.1\nMay 9 @ 9:30 am - 11:00 am$15\nThis session will be about comparative love melodies between Western and Egyptian music. There will be live play by keyboard with explanations. We will examine the impact of 1/4 tone on some Melodies. The melodies of famous western and eastern singers will be compared.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Weeknd at House of Blues\nAbel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, has been mysteriously brewing since he started recording and uploading songs to YouTube in 2010. Drake gets a lot of credit as the tipping point for his popularity, but I'd argue The Weeknd's trilogy of free releases — House of Balloons, Thursday and Echoes of Silence — speaks for itself. It's sex, drugs and R&B, and I could go on and on about the production value, but the best description I have heard is this: \"The Weeknd is music to have sex to ... with someone you shouldn't be having sex with.\"\nGet the Music Newsletter\nKeep your thumb on the local music scene each week with music news, trends, artist interviews and concert listings. We'll also send you special ticket offers and music deals.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Patricia A. Grubbe began playing piano at age 3, and as a teacher and music and choir director, she spent most of her life sharing her passion.\n\"She touched the lives of thousands of people through her commitment to the Catholic faith and her musical gift,\" her son Frederick said.\nMrs. Grubbe, born Patricia Mooney, grew up near 74th Street and Eberhart Avenue in Chicago. Her family said she could play piano by ear at 3 after listening to her father play, and they have recordings from that time.\nAfter graduating from Hirsch High School, she studied music for a year at Roosevelt University. She was an accompanist at the school for other students, including a trumpet player, Robert Grubbe. They were married in September 1946.\nAfter a brief stop in Berwyn, the couple moved to Des Plaines in the early 1950s. Mrs. Grubbe was giving private voice and music lessons in her home and began playing at masses in St. Mary's Catholic Church in Des Plaines, where she later became music director.\nIn the early 1960s, the family moved to the north side of Des Plaines and joined St. Zachary Parish. Mrs. Grubbe was music and choir director and taught music in the parish grade school, her son said.\nFor a while, she also was music director at Queen of the Rosary Church in Elk Grove Village. \"It was an amazing schedule she juggled while still raising six kids,\" Frederick Grubbe said, explaining that his mother sometimes took her children to work.\n\"She'd put us in the 'cry room,' and we'd play back there,\" he said. \"It was kind of a unique exposure to the life lessons -- the elation of marriage, the sadness of death.\"\nRev. Michael McMahon, associate pastor of St. Mary Parish in Buffalo Grove, met Mrs. Grubbe as a young student. \"I was 8 years old when I started taking piano lessons in her home,\" he said. \"She had a beautiful soprano voice. Bell-like, clear and very lyric.\"\nMcMahon was a music teacher for years before entering the priesthood. \"She showed you how integrated music, life and faith were,\" he said. \"She showed me that long before I went to seminary.\"\nMrs. Grubbe also played for nearly 30 years at a mass on the first Saturday of the month at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines, according to manager Marty Psik.\nShe played for more than 15 years in the chapel at Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village. \"She played for mass every week,\" said Brother Valentino Bianco. \"She could play anything. She had an unbelievable memory.\"\n\"She was a graceful and grace-filled person,\" McMahon said. \"That's how she taught music. That's how she lived her life.\"\nSurvivors also include two daughters, Regina Besenhofer and Pamela Hentges; three other sons, William, Thomas and Patrick; two sisters, Germaine Nylen and Claire Coughlan; and 12 grandchildren. Robert Grubbe died in 2000.\nVisitation will be held from 3 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in Glueckert Funeral Home, 1520 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Arlington Heights. Mass will be said at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Queen of the Rosary Church, 750 W. Elk Grove Blvd., Elk Grove Village.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Counting Crows fans get ready for some big news!! It’s the band’s 25th anniversary, and they’re celebrating with a HUGE 40-date tour with Live, coming to perform at the BB&T Pavilion on Saturday 11th August 2018. It’s going to be one awesome concert – don’t miss out!! Grab your tickets NOW while they last!\nCounting Crows hail from the San Francisco Bay area and consist of Adam Duritz (vocals), David Bryson (guitar), Charles Gillingham (keyboards), Dan Vickrey (guitar), Jim Bogios (drums), David Immergluck (guitar) and bassist Millard Powers. With over 20 million albums sold worldwide, Eight Top 5 singles, and three records having broken the Top 5 on the Billboard 200, Counting Crows success dates back to their 1993 debut release August And Everything After and the hit single “Mr. Jones.” The band’s most recent accomplishments include a # 1 hit with the song “Accidentally In Love,” which was featured on the Shrek 2 soundtrack, as well as nominations in 2005 for a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for the track. In 2004 the band released their first ever “Best Of” set Films About Ghosts which featured songs from every phase of the Counting Crow’s recording career and in 2006 a live record was released, *New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall 2003, while the band ventured out on a summer tour. Their most recent album, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings was released to critical and popular acclaim in March 2008.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The genius of Paul McCartney’s basslines\nA recent Disc Makers Blog post highlights the criminally-overlooked contributions of Paul McCartney’s bass playing during his tenure with the Beatles.\nPaul famously resisted playing bass at first, but took over after Stuart Sutcliffe left the band and Paul’s guitar broke.\nPaul admitted that he grew to love the instrument and developed a unique style which turned it into a more melodic instrument. His bass lines are credited with revolutionizing the way the bass guitar was used in rock n’ roll.\nThe Disc Makers article does a great job of highlighting the evolution of Paul’s bass playing from the early years when its simplicity allowed focus on the vocals, through the end of the Beatles’ career, when it added a completely new and different layer to their songs. The article is complete with analysis and examples of bass lines in specific songs. Of George Harrison’s song “Something,” the article says:\nAs the Beatles matured and neared the end of their time together as a band, we see each member reach their creative peak, displaying fully what each instrumentalist was capable of bringing to a song. McCartney’s bass parts on Abbey Road are another chapter in his melodic bass textbook. On George Harrison’s classic love song, “Something,” McCartney spends very little time on the root of each chord, instead opting to explore the upper registers of the bass, creating an ideal countermelody to the verse vocal line. During the chorus, the bass returns to the low register to give the song the necessary weight and depth that only a full bottom end can bring.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "\"Misty Mountain\" from Hobbit OST Similar ?\nJanuary 3, 2013 6:23 PM Subscribe\n\"Misty Mountain\" from Hobbit OST Similar? I have been loving that song since first hearing it. The OST is only about 2 min long and kinda wish they did a longer version. Any songs with similar characteristics .. the deep voice singing, chanting almost?!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Voices Together Listening\nIn this music learning exercise, students listen to five pieces of vocal music. They identify and describe each of the pieces heard and select the one feature that best matches the music listed.\n17 Views 32 Downloads\nListening for History: Using Jazz Music as a Primary Source\nDesigned as a teacher resource, a packet identifies resources and approaches instructors can use to incorporate jazz into their history classes. Materials are identified by historical era, from the roots of jazz prior to World War I to...\n8th - 12th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable\nWhen The Saints Go Marching In: A Lesson for Middle School Keyboard Lab Students\nAfter listening to a variety of interpretations of \"When the Saints Go Marching In,\" partners compose and then perform their own renditions of this classic before joining a full-class jam session.\n6th - 8th Visual & Performing Arts\n\"Mars\" from The Planets\nGustav Holst's The Planets provide young musicians an opportunity to examine how composers can create a suite: a collection of smaller pieces grouped to explore a single topic. After listening to \"Jupiter,\" they examine \"Mars\" in detail,...\n5th - 6th Visual & Performing Arts CCSS: Adaptable\nThe Summer Fun Summer Learning Dramatic and Story Reading Unit\nWhat's the difference between story reading and story telling? Participants in a summer enrichment program learn all about the difference as they listen to famous speeches, engage in dramatic readings, and craft their own short stories...\n1st - 8th English Language Arts CCSS: Adaptable\nWhy Should You Listen to Vivaldi's \"Four Seasons\"?\nWhile many of your class members may find the opening strands of \"The Four Seasons\" by Antonio Vivaldi familiar, few may know of the rich history of this program music. Viewers not only listen to portions of the music from each season,...\n4 mins 7th - 12th Visual & Performing Arts\nConsonance and Dissonance Activities\nHone those musical ears to identify consonance and dissonance in music being played live or on a recording. Learners will work through four activities where they will listen to consonant and dissonant notes being played first by the...\nK - 12th Visual & Performing Arts\nMUSICAL ELEMENTS OF THE LITTLE PRINCE\nLearners demonstrate knowledge of musical instruments and the families of the orchestra. They acknowledge different voice types found in opera. Students interpret emotional expressions through listening. They compose sounds to express...\n2nd - 6th Visual & Performing Arts\n\"Movies That Rock\": Moulin Rouge\nUpper graders explore musical film and the Bohemian lifestyle common in Europe during the turn of the century through the musical Moulin Rouge. After listening to (or viewing) songs from the movie, they discuss the Bohemian era and how...\n9th - 12th Visual & Performing Arts", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Appearing here for the first time on record, Dunstan is a trio by Finnish drummer-producer Teppo Mäkynen, bassist Antti Lötjönen and the Blue Note recording American based in Paris, alto saxophonist Logan Richardson. The trio initially formed to perform at Helsinki's We Jazz Festival in 2014 and since then, they have performed occasionally and recorded original material by Mäkynen, to be revealed now. The Dunstan sound is deep, spiritual, and groovy, with Richardson's natural \"cry\" on the sax laying darkly toned splashes of colour over the seamless groundwork of Mäkynen & Lötjönen, who have been collaborating closely in units such as The Five Corners Quintet, Timo Lassy Band, and Teddy's West Coasters. Based on this solid rhythm section, this new unit sounds like the trio would have been playing together for a long time and their shared musical thought is clear. This is contemporary spiritual jazz of the highest grade. The artwork of the Grotto X We Jazz series is created by the Stockholm based graphic designer Johanna Lundberg.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It’s a Concert on the Courts! An annual event when we have a concert on the courts! Wear your flat shoes (or go barefoot) and plan to dance on the courts - it’s so much fun to hear the music echo through the hills. Free to the members and $10 for nonmembers\nAbout The Rayburn Bros.photo by Leslie Rayburn\nThe Rayburn Brother’s Band, with their rough-hewn folk-rock sound, is comprised of gifted singer songwriter Craig Rayburn, a well-seasoned musician with a powerful voice and lyrics, and brother Keith Rayburn, also a talented singer songwriter, who brings his stellar dobro and slide guitar playing to the mix. The Rayburn Brothers voices blend and intertwine as only brothers can, with graceful harmonies and poignant singing. Deftly combining acoustic and electric instruments, they play songs ranging from heart-rending ballads to foot stomping rockers. They each bring their particular style to the mix, creating a soulful and eclectic mix of music; from folk, to rock to alternative country.\nThe Rayburn Brothers Band new album, \"Back to California\" is a compelling collection of songs ranging from the honest portrayal of long-term relationships in \"Go Down Easy\" to the hopeful, upbeat \"Back To California\". \"Ordinary Love\" tells of finding extraordinary love, while \"Lonely Train\" speaks of love lost. \"Te Propongo\" and \"Hole In My Heart\" mix Spanish and English lyrics in a way that reflects the brother`s California heritage.\nThe entire collection of songs is infused with elements of rock, folk, country, reggae and jazzy blues that channel the musical influences the brothers gained growing up in the Golden State. All songs feature the effortless blood harmony of Craig and Keith, augmented by the dulcet voice of Eliza James that give the vocals texture and intimacy. Long time lead guitar player Nick Heinz adds fluid guitar lines evoking classic rock greats, while the driving drum beat is provided by Andrew Tuckman. Dick Tacklind provides sturdy basslines, and keyboard player Kevin Taylor weaves in and out of the songs with grace and harmony.\nThis powerful and moving CD is full of surprises and unexpected twists. Eliciting comparisons to bands such as The Eagles, Neil Young, Los Lobos and Jackson.\nCraig Rayburn`s first CD, \"Coyote\" was very well received on the local music scene and was featured on various radio stations, most notable KPIG as well as KKUP and KZSC. This record showcases Rayburn’s diversity, including folk-rock, country, ballads and Americana. Joining him on this collaboration is talent Jim Norris with amazing “right on” drumming, Paul Olguin with his driving bass, the rich melodies of Keith Greeninger and Tamala Brown, multi-instrumentalist Dayan Kai, pianist extraordinaire, John R, fiddling pro Chojo Jacques, hot licks by guitarist Randy Mitchell, lush organ by Gianni Staino and stellar dobro and slide leads by brother Keith Rayburn.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Choreographer, dancer, professor of dance. She was born in 1949 in Poznań. For many years she performed as the primaballerina of the Teatr Wielki, Łódź. From 1988 to 2015 she was the artistic director of the Polish Dance Theatre, Poznań Ballet. She is an author of more than 70 performances presented in Poland, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic and USA.\nIn 1968, she graduated from ballet school in Poznan, and in 1982 from the Department of Dance Pedagogy at the Academy of Music in Warsaw. She has been a pupil of Nina Bielikowa, Aleksander Sobol, Peter Gosaa, Yuriko and Robert Cohen. From 1969 to 1988 she was the soloist for the Teatr Wielki (Grand Theatre) in Łódź. She also studied abroad, at L'Academie Internationale in Paris and at the Nederlanden Dans Theater in Holland. In 1988, she assumed the position of managing and artistic director, taking the place of Conrad Drzewiecki, at the Polish Dance Theatre - Poznan Ballet. She strives to broaden Drzewiecki's concept of the Polish modern dance school by including classical ballet as well. She is a professor at the Department of Education and the director of the Unit of Dance at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She is also a member of the International Dance Council (CID) – UNESCO, ministerial expert and the president of the Polish Choreotherapy Association.\nIn 2005 Wycichowska estblished Dancing Poland including International Modern Dance Workshops, Modern Dance Biennale and International Dance Theatres Festival.\nShe is one of the most multifaceted dancers in Poland. Included in her repertoire are both roles from classical ballet such as Juliet in Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (1969), Liza in Ferdinand Herold's La fille mal gardée (Polish trans., Córka źle strzeżona) (1973), and the title roles in Aram Khachaturian's Gajane (1975) and Adolphe Adam's Giselle (1979), as well as unusual and modern dance roles: Medea in Juliusz Łuciuk's musical performance (1982), roles in Mieczyslaw Karłowicz's Interpretacjach / Interpretations (1983) and Krzysztof Penderecki's Capriccio na choreografa / Capriccio for a choreographer (1988).\nEwa Wycichowskia is known for her courage as an artist, and for her constant search for new forms and means of expression. \"Ewa Wycichowska has provided an unusually beautiful interpretation of the character Gajane, her masterful, romantic adagios are particularly clear in their lines, clean in their execution, and her acting subtle and convincing.\" (Zygmunt Gzella, \"Gajane\", \"Odglosy\", no. 49/1975)\nThe artist is also known from her choreographies created for theatres, operas, and films. She has worked with famous directors such as: Jerzym Jarocki, Krystyna Janda, Maciej Prus, Krzysztof Zanussi, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Adam Hanuszkiewicz, and Krzysztof Zaleski.\nIn the performance Faust Goes Rock (1986), Wycichowska \"surprised the audience above all with her courage in the bold personification of the secrets and all manner of intricacies of the human soul, she impressed with her unusual precision and simplicity in the way that she conveyed all of the complicated philosophy of Goethe's play into the language of dance.\" (Anna Izykowska-Mironowicz, \"Teatr diablem podszyty\", \"Glos robotniczy\", 19 Dec 1986)\nFor the benefit performance on the occasion of her twenty-fifth anniversary on the stage, she chose Carmen, danced to the music of George Bizet, Rodion Shchedrin and Heitor Villa-Lobos. \"Once again, she has amazed us with her masterful technique, the lightness of her gestures and the wonderfully harmonic movement of her entire body.\" (Teresa Brodniewicz, \"Gazeta Wielkopolska\", 4 Dec 1993)\nShe made her choreographic debut in 1980 with the work Głos kobiecy / A Woman's Voice, with music composed by Krzysztof Knittel. From that time, she has done a great deal of choreography for various performances, the most interesting includes Mieczyslaw Karłowicz's Serenada (1982), Faust Goes Rock The Shade (1989), Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (1989 and 1993), Mateusz Kuźnik's Samotnść Fauna / Loneliness of a Faun (1989), Maciej Malecki's Skrzypek opętany / The Mad Fiddler (1991), Misterium słońca / Mystery of the Sun on the basis of Alberto Ginastera's \"Estancia\" suite and \"Ollantay\" symphonic poem as well as Misterium ziemi / Mystery of the Earth based on the choreographic legend \"Panambi\" also by Alberto Ginastera (1993), Krzesimir Dębski's Album z tego świata / Album of this World (1992), Transsss... (1997) and Tango z Lady M. / Tango with Lady M. (2000).\n\"I am not a fan of theatres that focus exclusively on the director's own works, because sooner or later the dancers would be tired of the monotony. Theatre develops by drawing its vitality from the experiences of a variety of choreographers,\" Wycichowska has said. (\"Rzeczpospolita\", 19 April 1992)\nShe thus invites many different leading artists to work with the Polish Dance Theatre, including Brigit Cullberg, Örjan Andersson, Stanisław Wiśniewski, Toru Shimazaki, Matsa Eka. Wycichowska tries to create a ballet that speaks to modern audiences, through a very communicative language of movement linking elements of both classical and modern dance. In all the performances, music, choreography, drama and images merge together to create unique shows. Her own production Transss... (1997) is an \"exciting adventure with Gombrowicz, at once a theoretical tract on the subject of ballet and a performance of a woman director and choreographer, as well as a story about people's dependence on one another.\" (Ewa Obrebowska-Piasecka, \"Zegar teatru\"). In one of her most recent choreographic works, Tango z Lady M. (2000), \"the artist has penetrated all the various climates of Latin American dance: nostalgia, aggression, eroticism, combining different eras, stories and times.\" (Lara, \"Tango bez konca\", \"Gazeta na Pomorzu\", 1 Dec 2000)\nIn Cases of Mr Von K. inspired by Letters of Heinrich von Kleist, she focuses on artistic and tragic life of said German artist. The show was made in cooperation of Polish Dance Theatre and Kleist Forum from Frankfurt Oder. Carpe diem from 2007 was an outcome of inspirations of its creators' minds. The authors about the spectacle:\nWe gave a moment, time between the past and the future, to the children and poets. We no longer can feel pure rapture over things we are still experiencing. We can no longer feel things with all our souls and bodies, to absorb colors, tastes, sounds, movements. We canceled the present, harking back only to what used to be and planning the future. Our play was born out of the yearning for what it all used to be like. We wish to freeze the elusiveness of a meeting of creators and spectators, to get to know our carpe diem and to share it in such a way so as not to lose any moment. This is what was behind the work – mutual inspirations enticed by thoughts, music, movement, voices and sounds, colors and shapes.\nIn Spring-Effatha (2007) she combined minimalist choreography with multimedia in a ballet on ice. It is a breath-taking image of the „spring awakening”to Jacek Wierzchowski's music. Wycichowska stated:\nWe have shut off our senses, lost our child-like curiosity, openness and strength from nature, which cyclically comes to life.\nThen in 2009 in Komeda – Sextet (on the 40th anniversary of his death) to film music by Komeda, she was exploring the meaning of „unforgettable 60s” today. In 2011 she directed Meetings in Two Unfulfilled Acts which was produced as a cooperation of the Grand Theatre in Lodz with Polish Dance Theatre – Poznan Ballet. Several generations of Polish dancers met to create a performance together. Krzysztof Knittel, one of the artists, said:\nYears ago, the debut has occured, Ewa Wycichowska as a choreographer and mine as a composer of ballet music – for the dancers of the Grand Theatre in Łódź. The premiere took place on December the 6th 1980. Our actions was inspired by the erotic cycle :Female Voice\" by Rafal Wojaczek. Music, written for the percussion instruments and electronic sounds strongly alluded to the rythms of Middle Africa. Now we are coming back to this stage in \"two unfulfilled meetings\"... After years of our \"Meetings\" the same dancers shows up, the same who took place in the same performance. [...] Composers and choreographers, who we know and admire for their creations, and next to our work you will see their pieces together with their imagination, different sens of form, new themes and problems. Meetings of different generations, different creative attitudes, different artistic ideas and visions.\nA year later Wycichowska made FootBall@... to talk about the atmosphere and emotions during Euro 2012.\nWish you were here (2013) and Good to have you here (2014) were based on Polish Dance Theatre's original choreographic materials from 1973-1993 and were dedicated to dancers connected to the theatre. These are to present the audience the world of dance „that becomes the guide to the past times and sometimes penetrates present plots”. In November 2015 Wycichowska choreographed and directed Lament. In Memory of Tadeusz Rożewicz. It was inspired by renowned collection of poems by Różewicz called Mother Departs.\nThe authors want to infiltrate the transgressive world formed between the space of the trauma and the space of the artistic piece. The piece has a therapeutic and expiative nature. The essence of the intimate confession contained in literary works included in Różewicz’s volume has inspired the show’s authors to work with selected plots and motives. In a creative manner the authors adapt the literary piece to the genre structure of a dance theatre. By balancing the importance of words and movements, by building a dramaturgical structure using a semantic sign and a body sign, the authors of the show think about the dichotomy of the world and the dichotomy of art. (European Capital of Culture 2016)\nFor Wycichowska, dance is a symbiosis of music, visual art and movement.\n\"Through choreography, I tell about myself, including in it my attitude towards the world, life, asking questions to which I am searching for the answers, attempting to define a set of values and goals. (...) Perhaps this sounds paradoxical, but I try to avoid simply creating fictional stories, I am not interested in things that are able to be expressed in terms of concepts that are semantically closed; what I am doing is my choreographic path toward illumination that is more often subject to the spirit rather than the material world.\" (\"Głos Wybrzeża\", 13 Nov 1997)\n- 1970 - First prize in the performance category at the Polish Choregraphy Competition in Łódź\n- 1985 - Stanisław Wyspiański Award, First Degree\n- 1991 - Vaclav Nizynski Medal for her choreography to Rite of Spring and Samotnosc Fauna / Loneliness of a Faun\n- 1991 - Hetman's Sceptre Award at the Zamość Summer Theatre Festival for Faust Goes Rock\n- 1992 - Special Awards Fringe First at the Edinburgh Arts Festival for the show Samotność Fauna / Loneliness of a Faun\n- 1994 - special Golden Mask Award from the Lodz theatre critics for her twenty-fifth anniversary on the stage\n- 2000 - Hetman's Sceptre Award at the Zamosc Summer Theatre Festival for Tango z Lady M.\n- 2000 - Leon's Chair, statue for the most interesting show at the Contemporary Drama Review in Zielona Góra\n- 2002 - Hetman's Sceptre Award at the Zamość Summer Theatre Festival for B@ttle between Carnival and Lent\n- 2007 - Gloria Artis Silver Medal - Zasłużony Kulturze; The Award of the Czech Republic TV for B@ttle between Carnival and Lent during the Golden Prague International Television Festival in Prague\n- 2008 – Polish Branch of the International Theatre Institution Award – for popularising Polish theatre abroad; Special Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for contributions to Polish culture. .\n- 2015 - Verba Docent Exempla Trahunt Golden Medal from the Hipolit Cegielski Association; Award in Dance category of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage\nSources: Polish Dance Theatre, updated April 2016", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mixing & Mastering Engineers, Producers & Songwriters who worked with Søika\n- Profile namearrow_drop_down\nSearch by profile nameclearsearch\n- Recommended arrow_drop_down\nWe are located in the beautiful Long Beach area. A short drive away from the beach. You can step outside and enjoy the ocean breeze or step inside and enjoy our professionally designed and tuned recording studios. Choose between our two rooms. Studio A, our flagship studio fully loaded with industry standard plugins, mic pres, speakers and mics. Re\nI have been writing music for my own band Audiojack and other acts as an engineer for two decades, producing consistent hits, chart number ones and music aired across the worlds best radio stations. I have remixed acts like Bryan Ferry, Underworld & Groove Armada and have collaborated with vocalists such as LCD Soundsystems Nancy Whang.\n\"Andrew has a ear for music and sounds.. I am super picky with my art/music.. he made the track sound better than I could imagine.. I will 100% work with Andrew again.. \"\n\"Francois is a great musician, guitarist and bass performer, very creative who put his soul, his top notch technique and experience to my rock song. He also remixed and mastered the song and the result is perfect. Besi...\"\n\"Mike is one of the kindest and greatest guys I've been ever worked with. Perhaps it is not only worth mentioning his amazing musical skills, but also he had the disposition for giving advise on other topics. I had ...\"\n\"It was a pleasure to work with Mike. He took my song to another level! Thank you!\"\n\"great professional, great person, a pleasant surprise! He brought out the best from my music and did it in a short time. I recommend him!\"\n\"I tried Leo on one song and he definitely came thru. I came back to him for the next song and once again he performed well. Most of all I like his people skills. It is easy to communicate with this man! \"\n\"Robert is an amazing mixer. He pays attention to details and listens to suggestions. He was extremely patient and dealt with the project in a professional manner. It was a pleasure working with him and I hope our path...\"\n\"This is my pride to work with this man and I will always recommend him to people who wanna make their sound better and better. \"\n\"Masters sound great, very professional work.\"\n\"Thank you for the patience and professionalism you exhibited while mixing and mastering my songs...Juan is a great mix-master who put the time and effort in to please his clients...Give him a try, he is excellent...\"\n\"Good to work with and great communication.\"\n\"Eric is an outstanding person to work with. DO NOT HESITATE TO GO WITH HIM. He will give you an affordable rate and work his butt off until you get the mix that you truly want. I could not have finished my EP without ...\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Label: Walt Disney Records - 5099968095628 • Format: CD Compilation • Country: Europe • Genre: Childrens • Style: Nursery Rhymes, Story\nProvided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupCaptain Hook (Is a Cranky Crook) · The Never Land Pirate BandJake And The Never Land Pirates℗ Walt Disney Re.\nJake & The Never Land Pirates Soundtrack Lyrics. Captain Hook (Is A Cranky Crook) Lyrics. Out on the waves, so goes the tale, The Jolly Roger sails. And at the helm, be a captain who, has a bone to pick with you. He's a skarvy shark with a toothy ache. He'd nick the name from your birthday cake.\nCaptain Hook is a Cranky Crook is a song from the Disney Junior animated series, Jake and the Never Land was one of the closing musical numbers featured in season one through three of the series. The song is performed by Sharky and Bones. The song also serves as the theme song for.\nPlay Sound. \" Captain Hook is a Cranky Crook \" is a song from Jake and the Never Land Pirates. The song serves as the theme song for Captain Hook in the series and an instrumental version often plays whenever he appears on the screen. The song was written by Loren Hoskins and Kevin Hendrickson who also perform the song as the characters Sharky and Bones respectively.\nCaptain Hook is a cranky cook. An oddfish, codfish, sneaky snook. We signed the board, with the old sea snake and that was our mistake. We wish we had, a gold doubloon, for every plan he's ruined.\nResonance - Chris Potter (2) - Pure (CD) Jhvjv - Hearts Of Darknesses - Music For Drunk Driving (CD) The Bands Commentary Pop-Up Video And Audio - Savage Garden - Superstars And Cannonballs - Live And", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Whether you’re just getting started in dance or you’re looking for ways to improve your technique in dance, there is so much you can do to kick your skills up a notch. You’ve taken the right first step by researching ways you can improve your dance technique.\nJust remember that significant improvement takes time so don’t get discouraged if you find it taking some time to master a certain dance technique. Even the best dancers today started at the bottom and look where they are now. The trick is to never give up!\nIf you want to become a better dancer, the following advice will teach you how to improve your technique in dance.\n1. Stretch before you do a dance routine\nStretching in your daily routine is a great way to improve your technique in dance. Stretching helps improve dance techniques by helping your muscles become more flexible, which in turn increases your range of motion. When your body is used to being flexible, there is less of a chance that you will suffer an injury like a pulled muscle.\nThere are some important things to keep in mind when stretching. The first thing is to slowly increase the stress on your muscles, allowing them to adapt. The next thing you want to keep in mind is to properly warm-up before you start stretching.\nIf you end up stretching a cold muscle, you’re not stretching the muscle at all – you’re actually stretching the joint instead. It’s best to stretch in the morning so you can enjoy the benefits of stretching all day.\n2. Practice to improve your technique in dance\nPerhaps one of the best tips we can give you is to practice, practice, practice! Practice is the best way on how to improve technique in dance. Even if you’re watching TV, put it on mute, play your music and dance, dance, dance! Dancing is also a great form of exercise, so you get the benefit of working out too. Try to set aside some time every day, or a few times a week to practice.\nThe more you improve your technique in dance, the better you will get. Just remember that it takes lots of time, practice, and patience to get really good at dancing. It will all come to you in time, just practice and immerse yourself in the world of dancing as much as possible. Keep at it and you’ll be a wonderfully skilled dancer before you know it.\n3. Practice dancing in front of the mirror\nWhen practicing your dance technique, do so in front of a full-length mirror. This way, you’ll be able to see correct lines and angles. When your practice and there is no mirror around, you have no way of knowing how your form looks.\nBy seeing your reflection in the mirror, you can make sure you are doing the correct moves learned in your dance classes. Once you feel more confident about your technique, you can stop using the mirror.\n4. Review old dance routines\nYou put a lot of energy and time into learning dance routines. The last thing you want to do is forget how to perform them. To avoid this problem, regularly review old dance routines. This will keep the routine sharp and you can pull it out and modify it for new routines.\nYou’ll also start to build a repertoire of all of the different dance routines you have ever done. Set some time aside to review different pieces periodically and you’ll never forget a dance routine again! We can all use the extra practice so it’s a win-win!\n5. Watch dance videos\nWatching someone dance or watching a dance video can be just as good as practicing. Doing so exposes you to different moves and techniques that you may not have thought of before. It’s also a great way to learn what other dancers are doing and what works for them.\nIf you’re looking to improve your technique in dance, watching others dance this technique or watching videos can be a great way to immerse yourself in this new style of dance.\n6. Improve your fitness\nThe more fit you are the easier dancing will come to you. Your muscles will already be conditioned and performing dance moves will not be as hard. Your muscles will be used to moving in certain ways and they will already be strengthened, making it even easier to improve your technique.\nIncrease your muscle strength by lifting weights at the gym and doing other exercises, like core building exercises. Exercising regularly will also increase your stamina and help you master dance moves even quicker than before. A bonus is that you’ll be physically fit and be a great dancer! What could be better than that?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Reed Island Rounders will present a public Concert at Gage Hall, 4 Archdale Street, Charleston SC at 7 PM, October 7th. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Suggested Donation $20.\nThe Reed Island Rounders have long been known for not being your typical string band. Drawing from the lonesome hollers of West Virginia, the lively traditions of Kentucky’s fiddlers, their local Blue Ridge Mountains styles, and the North Carolina sounds from Round Peak to the Piedmont, they weave archaic with sophisticated, soulful with foot-stomping, romantic with down-to-earth. The resulting tapestry is alive with texture and color, making for an invigorated dance hall, or a lively and enlightening concert.\nEach a veteran of festivals, music camps, and dance circuits, Betty, Billy & Kirk choose the tunes and songs they love the best, bringing a unique variety of sounds to each venue. Betty Vornbrock’s fiddle bow brings energy to dance tunes, emotion to waltzes and listening tunes, and imagination to her twin fiddle harmonies with Kirk. Billy Cornette keeps his rock solid beat and fanciful bass runs on guitar, and is the vocal lead. Kirk Sutphin, adept in different banjo styles, frails or fingerpicks, complimenting each number. His fiddling evokes his Round Peak roots, as well. Hillary Dirlam is a master of a wide range of instruments and musical styles. In 1991 she was chosen to be the program director for the Blue Ridge Old-Time Music Week at Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, NC. She continues to share that position, which allows her to teach classes in guitar, banjo and bass during the week. She is also one of the founders of the Old-Time Herald, an old-time music journal. Hilary joins the band for this weekend on stand up bass.\nThe Reed Island Rounders’ concert will treat listeners to driving dance beats, tasteful twin fiddling, fun songs, and maybe some music history thrown in!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Live music scene! (Almaty)\nHi folks, I'm a gigging session musician here in Ireland, I play many types of music with lots of different kinds of artists. After a while over there I know its going to be one of the biggest things I am going to miss after our move to Almaty in a couple of weeks.\nMy question - are there any musicians or singers (at any level) out there that meet to play music or sing together - either in a pub (always preferable) or a home or anywhere and if not would anybody be willing to start something up?\nI'm not looking for gigs, kinda happy to take a break from all that for a while tbh but just something for fun and to feed the soul a little! :-)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "According to Jack.fm, Roxette will play in Los Angeles Gibson Amphitheatre on September 15th. You can win tickets for the concert following the link.\nRecap on the US/Canada dates so far:\nAugust 30 – Toronto, Canada?\n? – New York, US\nSeptember 14th San Francisco, US\nSeptember 15th Los Angeles, US", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Giana NguyenAdvanced Teacher Irvine, CA, United States\nDancing Keys Music Studio\nGiana is a professional singer/songwriter with works registered through the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Although music has always been an important part of Giana’s personal life, taking a chance on pursuing music as a full-time career only recently came to fruition.Growing up, she studied classical music for over 9 years and subsequently taught piano in private and semi-private settings from 1999 – 2007. At that time, she broke away from music to focus on her then career in the health care industry.However, in 2011 she re-routed her path back to music when she started teaching piano again; independently released her debut solo album, “For Now;” and left her career in health care to pursue her passion as a singer/songwriter (stage name Giana Nguyen). Her music has garnered recognition by new media makers around the world, and she was a nominee in the 2011 Hollywood Music in Media Awards for “Best Pop Song” and the 2012 All Indie Awards for “Best Pop Artist.” Giana has since performed solo acoustic shows or with full band at notable venues such as the House of Blues in Los Angeles, the Whisky A Go-Go in Hollywood, and at the Honda Center in Anaheim where she sang the U.S. and Canadian national anthems for an internationally televised sporting event. To further her joy for music, she teamed up Alex Thai Nguyen to open Dancing Keys Music Studio in March 2013. Now with over 10 years of experience working with students of all ages, she is ecstatic to teach Simply Music Piano. Giana supports various charities in/surrounding Orange County with the most active participation as a Board Member for the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) and as an a volunteer/performer for 8 years with the CHOC Follies – supporting CHOC Children’s Hospital.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Cellist Stephen Marotto gave the Massachusetts premiere of Islands, concerto for cello and electronics at the Mystic Brewery, Chelsea. The concert was presented by Original Gravity, an organisation that pairs contemporary music with uniquely crafted beers. www.originalgravitymusic.org\nI was privileged to run the live sound for a host of local composers including Dan Tramte, Dan Van Hassel and Scott Barton with his robotic orchestra!\nA snippet from the Chelsea Record, who reported on the event:\nI was thrilled to join Transient Canvas as they performed Branches at the New York City Electronic Music Festival this year! Fantastic venue - the Abrons Playhouse - with superb 8-channel donated by Genelec.\nIn November 2014 I spent two glorious weeks at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Calgary as part of the Source and Inspiration programme. Whilst there, I collaborated with singer-songwriters Abby Swidler and Jodi Doidge to arrange their songs for classical ensembles.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Amazing track. Great vibe. Can’t wait to hear more.\nyour music is great and I love the cover art\ndope energy in this keep it up!!\nbig kapow on the track mini doing it big\nI like this alot keep making your music\nUnderground vibes !\nLove the beat and the flow so much ❤️🔥", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Kirsten Maxwell at The Minstrel\nKirsten Maxwell’s voice has been compared to Baccarat crystal, her lyrics are rich with poetry and passion, and her guitar playing is a perfectly delicate accompaniment to her craft. To top it all off, this singer/songwriter is as endearing off stage as she is in the spotlight. This up and coming artist is well recognized as one of tomorrow’s luminaries of the Folk World. You can say you saw her when she played the Minstrel.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "My dream is to get a band together so i can shred it up rhoads,wylde,dimebag-style, so i need the ideal vocals for the genre of music... so i want to sing like ozzy, zakk and pantera. but the thing is... i think my voice is ****. I wish it could improve... Could any of you help me with this problem?\nPost this in here https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6756227#post6756227 and you will get help. Please delete this, this forum's only for Original lyrics and poetry. thanks.\noh dear, when i sing, i warm up first i put on symphony's and sing do rey me's in the tune of the song, and if you wanna sound better dink 10 shots of a pure lemon juice, it will constrict your vocal chords, causing you to have a deeper strongers longer lasting voice", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Introducing Amazon Music\nAmazon Music is a premium, subscription-based music streaming service from Amazon that offers access to over 100 million songs on-demand (https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/amazon-music-unlimited). It provides high quality audio with either lossless or standard quality streaming across multiple platforms and devices. Amazon offers both individual and family plans for Amazon Music, which allow unlimited skipping, downloaded playlists for offline listening, hands-free listening with Alexa, and personalized recommendations.\nThe service was originally launched in public beta in 2007 as Amazon MP3, which allowed users to purchase MP3 audio files individually or as part of an album. It was later rebranded as Amazon Music in 2016 with the introduction of Prime Music, which provides Prime members with limited streaming access bundled with their membership. In 2019, Amazon Music Unlimited was introduced as a premium, on-demand subscription tier.\nAmazon Music aims to compete with other top music streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music by offering robust catalogs, high quality audio, competitive pricing, and deep integration with Alexa and Amazon’s ecosystem of products and services (https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/what-is-amazon-music/). The service continues to expand with new features and functionality.\nAmazon Music App Availability\nThe Amazon Music app is available on a wide range of platforms, allowing you to listen to music from Amazon Music on many different devices. According to Amazon’s website, the Amazon Music app can be downloaded on Android, iOS, Fire Tablet (with Fire OS 6 and above), Fire TV, select streaming devices, smart TVs, and smart speakers.\nSome of the most popular platforms where you can find the Amazon Music app include:\n- Android phones and tablets\n- iOS devices including iPhone and iPad\n- Fire tablets and Fire TV devices\n- Echo smart speakers\n- Smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, Vizio, and others\n- Gaming consoles like PlayStation and Xbox\n- In-car entertainment systems\n- PC and Mac computers\nSo whether you want to listen on your smartphone, tablet, computer, TV, smart speaker, or in the car, chances are you can download the Amazon Music app on your device of choice. This wide availability makes it easy and convenient for users to enjoy music from Amazon Music on all their devices.\nAmazon Music on Android Devices\nAmazon Music is available on Android devices. According to the Amazon Music app page, the app can be downloaded for free from the Google Play Store on Android phones and tablets.\nThe Amazon Music app allows you to stream tens of millions of songs without ads, listen to curated playlists and stations, and download songs for offline listening. It works with both Amazon Music Unlimited and Amazon Prime Music subscriptions.\nSo in summary, yes – the Amazon Music app can be installed on any Android device by downloading it from the Google Play store. This allows Android users full access to the Amazon Music catalog and features.\nDownloading the Amazon Music App\nThe Amazon Music app is available for free download from the Google Play Store on all Android devices. Here are the steps to download the Amazon Music app on your Android phone or tablet:\n- Open the Google Play Store app on your Android device.\n- Search for “Amazon Music” or click on this link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.mp3\n- Tap on the “Install” button.\n- The app will begin downloading. The download time depends on your internet connection speed.\n- Once downloaded, tap “Open” to launch the Amazon Music app.\n- Sign into your Amazon account or create a new one if you don’t already have an account.\n- After signing in, you can start using the Amazon Music app and access your music library.\nThe Amazon Music app is free to download and install on any Android device running Android 4.4 KitKat or higher. Downloading the app allows you to play your purchased and imported music from Amazon as well as stream Prime Music and Music Unlimited songs if you have an active subscription.\nAmazon Music App Features\nThe Amazon Music app for Android has many useful features that allow you to easily discover, stream, download, and manage music on your Android device. Some of the key features include:\nAccess to over 90 million songs that you can stream or download for offline listening. You can browse curated playlists and stations based on your preferences and listening history (according to Amazon).\nAbility to download songs, albums, playlists, and stations for offline listening when you don’t have an internet connection. Downloads are stored locally on your device.\nPersonalized recommendations based on your taste to discover new artists and songs you’ll love. The home page surfaces new releases, recommendations, and playlists for you.\nHands-free listening with Alexa voice commands so you can request songs, change playlists, control playback etc simply using your voice.\nSyncing between devices so you can seamlessly switch between listening on your Android phone, tablet, computer etc while retaining your preferences, library etc.\nAbility to manage your music library and playlists, add songs to favorites, delete downloads etc.\nHigh quality audio streaming for Prime members at no extra cost. Option to upgrade to Amazon Music HD for lossless HD quality audio.\nIntegrations with smart home devices and car infotainment systems for music streaming throughout your home.\nAmazon Music Subscription Options\nAmazon Music offers a variety of subscription options to fit different needs and budgets:\nAmazon Music Unlimited gives you access to over 75 million songs ad-free, including millions of songs in Ultra HD and spatial audio. Amazon Music FAQs Individual plan is $9.99/month for Prime members ($8.99/month for a single Echo device plan). The Family Plan allows up to 6 users for $15.99/month (or $149/year).\nFor Amazon Prime members, Amazon Music Prime offers 2 million hand-curated songs and thousands of playlists ad-free, at no additional cost to Prime membership. This includes both downloading for offline listening and unlimited streaming.\nThose without a Prime membership can sign up for Amazon Music Free. This gives access to top playlists and stations, but with periodic ad interruptions. There is no option to download or unlimited streaming with the free tier.\nAmazon also offers discounted student pricing for Music Unlimited at just $4.99/month. There are also plans bundled with a single Echo smart speaker starting at $3.99/month.\nOverall, Amazon Music aims to provide options to suit every budget, whether you want a full unlimited catalog or just a sampling of playlists and stations. The subscription plans offer increasing benefits depending on your needs and willingness to pay. Check out Amazon Music Unlimited Family Plan details to compare all the possibilities.\nUsing Amazon Music Offline\nOne of the key features of Amazon Music is the ability to download music for offline listening when you don’t have an internet connection. This is available to Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers on Android devices. To enable offline listening:\n- Open the Amazon Music app and tap on the “My Music” tab.\n- Find the song, album, or playlist you want to download and tap the “Download” button next to it.\n- The download will begin and you’ll see a download progress bar.\n- Once the download is complete, you’ll see a checkmark indicating it’s now available for offline playback.\nDownloaded content is stored locally on your device so you can listen anytime, anywhere without using mobile data or WiFi. Amazon Music Unlimited members can download up to 100,000 songs for offline use . Downloads are organized in the “Offline Music” section within the app.\nOne tip is to connect to WiFi when downloading songs to avoid using up mobile data. Offline downloads make Amazon Music an ideal solution for situations like flights or subway commutes where internet connectivity is limited.\nVoice Commands with Alexa\nOne of the most convenient ways to control your music on Android devices is by using Alexa voice commands. The Amazon Music app is integrated with Alexa, Amazon’s voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant. This allows you to use spoken commands to play music hands-free without having to tap the screen or buttons on your device.\nTo use Alexa voice commands, you simply need to say “Alexa” followed by a request like “play music by Ed Sheeran” or “play my weekly discover playlist.” You can ask Alexa to play music by genre, mood, era, artist, album, playlist and more. Alexa can also shuffle songs or play music stations based on your preferences.\nSome examples of music voice commands you can use with the Amazon Music app and Alexa on Android include:\n- “Alexa, play pop music”\n- “Alexa, play jazz from the 1960s”\n- “Alexa, shuffle songs by The Beatles”\n- “Alexa, play dinner party music”\n- “Alexa, play my Recently Played playlist”\nWith Alexa integration, Amazon Music provides a hands-free, voice-controlled music experience on your Android device. Just speak naturally to play your favorite tunes, discover new music and control playback entirely with your voice.\nFAQs About Amazon Music on Android\nOne frequently asked question is how to download the Amazon Music app on an Android device. The app can be downloaded from the Google Play store or Amazon Appstore by searching for “Amazon Music”. It’s compatible with most modern Android smartphones and tablets (source).\nAnother common question is whether Amazon Music downloads are compatible with all Android devices. Unfortunately, some older or lower-end devices may not be able to play downloaded songs due to DRM restrictions. Checking the system requirements before downloading is advised (source).\nUsers also often ask about playing Amazon Music offline. The Amazon Music app allows Prime members to download songs, playlists, and stations for offline listening. Downloads are accessible in the “My Music” section of the app even without an internet connection (source).\nOther common questions include how to enable Alexa voice commands, use Amazon Music on multiple devices, upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited, share playlists with friends, and troubleshoot issues with the app. The Amazon Music support site provides helpful instructions on all these topics.\nAmazon Music is available for download on Android smartphones and tablets via the Google Play Store. The Android app lets you stream or download tens of millions of songs, playlists, and stations either through an Amazon Music Unlimited subscription or for free with an Amazon Prime membership.\nKey features of the Amazon Music app on Android include:\n- Ability to stream or download music for offline listening\n- Personalized recommendations and curated playlists\n- Hands-free listening with Alexa voice commands\n- Lyrics view for songs\n- Options for high quality audio\nThe Android version provides the full Amazon Music experience, matching the iOS app’s capabilities. So Android users can enjoy Amazon’s robust music catalog, personalized playlists, and Alexa integration on their mobile devices.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "TITLE: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Classic FM Concert\nVENUE: Huddersfield Town Hall\nBY: William Marshall\nHUDDERSFIELD Town Hall was packed for this Sunday afternoon concert which suggests that this time slot is one which ought to be exploited more often.\nAlso, the big audience testified to the success of the Classic FM formula.\nThe event was promoted by the radio station as part of the Kirklees Concert Season.\nAll of the works that were on the programme occupy prominent positions in a Hall of Fame compiled by Classic FM from the votes of listeners who duly flocked to hear their favourites played live by the excellent Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.\nIt was a proper concert, not just a medley of famous movements.\nIndeed, the second half was occupied entirely by Dvorak’s highly charged Symphony No 7, powerfully played throughout but concluding with an emotional surge which pinned the audience in their seats.\nThe conductor was Tomas Netopil, who is Czech.\nWhether or not that gives him added insight into the music of his compatriots is a moot philosophical point, but he certainly presided over fine performances of the Dvorak symphony and of Smetana’s Vltava, played with a brio that made the river it describes seem especially turbulent.\nFor three years, Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending for violin and orchestra has topped the Classic FM Hall of Fame.\nAs it is a sublimely beautiful composition, this is no surprise.\nBut has ‘The Lark’ become little more than a piece of musical escapism, enabling people to retreat into an imagined countryside that never was?\nWell, like most of its composer’s works in pastoral vein, The Lark Ascending is drenched in melancholy and these elements came out very strongly in violinist James Clark’s performance which had just the right degree of emotional vulnerability.\nIt is this quality – a very English sense of loss – which makes The Lark so popular and there was a suitably contemplative silence in Huddersfield Town Hall after the last note had faded away.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "April 19, 2012\nBad Liar was the solo project for the Bay Area’s Jack Brown, guitarist of Until Your Heart Stops. It has since evolved into a full band, who just put out an EP that I fell in love with. Bad Liar expands upon the emo/punk sound that we all love so much with some excellent chord progressions, varied instrumentation, and exceptional tunefulness. The vocals sound like a cross between O Pioneers!!! and Bear Vs. Shark (so you know, basically the whole melodic & gruff thing). This release is coming out eventually on Condition Records. For now, you can pay whatever you want for it on Bad Liar’s bandcamp page.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Attending Music Biz 2022 is your opportunity to make your mark on the music business and its key stakeholders. Join us May 9-12 in Nashville for global opportunities such as…\n- A special in-person keynote interview with Sony Music Publishing Chairman & CEO Jon Platt;\n- Tons of instances to interact with current and future business partners at major and independent labels, other publishing companies, all the digital streaming services, among others;\n- Even more conversations with the digital services through workshops with Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, Twitch, and SoundCloud;\n- Tech solutions for your company and its songwriters and artists in the royalty collection, metadata, licensing, and administration sectors of the business;\n- Top tier publishing and copyright programs such as …\n- Music Consumption Has Gone Global, Music Publishing Is Still Local – What Gives?\n- Legislative Outlook: Is EU Copyright Law A Blueprint for the Future of the Music Industry & Growing Creator Economy?;\n- The Nuts and Bolts of Valuing Catalog; Fair Pay for Every Play: Empowering Creator Rights in the Digital Age;\n- They’re Coming For Us: Fraudsters & How We Stop Them;\n- Hit Song Moneyball II: Harnessing the Next Generation of Compositional, Lyrical and Sonic Analytics to Bolster Creative Decision-Making;\n- The Rights Behind Royalty Flows: Interdependent Roles in the Music Ecosystem;\n- What’s Your Fight Song?: Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Copyright Claims Board in Music Cases;\n- among many others: musicbiz2022.sched.com\n- Networking events such as Warner Music Group & ADA’s Welcome Bash; Twitch’s Off-Site Party; the annual Women in Music mixer; Vevo’s cocktail event after Jon Platt’s keynote; among many others.\nThe who’s who of the music industry will be there. Will you?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lunchtime Opera Gala with Mezzo-Soprano Olivia Hamblyn\nEnjoy a wonderful 2 course meal including after dinner coffee in the perfect setting of the Lovell Suite at the Swettenham Arms, whilst listening to an Opera Gala performed by mezzo-Soprano Olivia Hamblyn. Indulge in classics from the operas, such as Carmen and Gianni Schicchi and sing along to your favourites from the musicals, including Cole Porter and Gilbert & Sullivan.\nOlivia Hamblyn is currently completing her undergraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music under principal vocal tutor, Hilary Summers. Recent solo repertoire includes Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat, Rutter’s Feel the Spirit, Beethoven’s Mass in C major, Haydn’s St Nicolaus Mass and Vaughan William’s Serenade of Music. In 2019, she also won the James Martin Onken Song Prize. Olivia frequently appears in the RNCM opera productions, performing recently in opera scenes as Fanny Price in Jonathon Doves’ Mansfield Park, and as Countess Emerance in Messager’s Veronique. She has also taken part in Puccini’s Fra Angelico and Vaughan Williams’ The Pilgrim’s Progress- where she played the cover of PickThank. Alongside her solo engagements Olivia frequently performs a diverse range of music with choirs and ensembles around the country including: the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, the Hallé Choir, RNCM Chamber Choir and Kantos Chamber Choir. Recent performances with these ensembles include: a new composition by Anna Meredith performed at the opening night of this year’s BBC Proms; Elgar’s ‘Dream of Gerontius’ conducted by Sir Simon Rattle accompanied by the Vienna Philharmonic; the world premiere of Rebecca Dale’s ‘Requiem for My Mother’, later recorded alongside the Liverpool Philharmonic.\nOlivia is also an up-and-coming choral conductor and a Sing For Pleasure Young Choral Scholar. She is the choral director of six choirs and the assistant director for Sale Youth Choirs. Olivia also works freelance as a guest conductor for larger choral organisations such as the Hallé and Huddersfield Choral Society. Outreach is a big part of Olivia’s aspirations in becoming a musician. She frequently works with children and vulnerable adults. She is the founder of Musicians’ Minds Together – a non- for-profit organisation for the support and awareness of mental health in the classical music industry. In 2021 Olivia, on behalf of the organisation received both the Yamaha Entrepreneurship award and the RNCM Creative Innovators award which has provided funding to launch the organisation.", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "A dark cinematic bell.\nJust a short synth pad.\na randomized space pad\nSingle note sampled from an analog synthesizer by Modular Samples.Modular Samples provides samples of vintage and modern synthesizers for Apple ...\nThis sound is 100% acoustic and comes from a recording of a natural sound despite sounding like a huge synthesizer ...\nComplex patch, made with Ableton Live\nFor more information check out our cookies policy.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Funny, I was at a rehearsal working on fleshing out an arrangement on a new song with the band.........\nI started playing a slow gallop like this, I don't know where I pulled it from, mostly out of boredom as the guitarist and pianist tried to figure out chord changes to go with the singers lyrics. Kinda like Geezer Butler's line on Heaven and Hell, only this song has a blusier/soul feel.\nEveryone loved the bass line so much they insisted I use it in the tune!\nWashington State Bassist Club #40, Wood Matters Club Member #18\n\"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Meet our first student spotlight for 2023 – bass student Chloe Tan. Chloe is a student of Paul Tokarz, who nominated her “because of her willingness to practice and how quickly she has progressed.” Paul says even though Chloe has been taking lessons for about a year, her technique is that of someone playing for 5 years and she has a great desire to grown and learn! Read on to learn more about this overachieving bass player!\nWhat do you study and why did you pick that instrument?\nI play the cello and piano and I’m learning the bass. I chose the bass because I wanted to learn with my sister and I like how it sounds.\nWho is your teacher and what do you love about them?\nMy teacher is Mr. Paul. I like how he’s fine with the music I listen to and that he really tries to figure out the notes to the songs I want to play. He’s really nice and a good teacher.\nWhat kind of music do like to listen to or play? Recent favorite artist?\nI like to listen to indie, pop, k-pop, j-pop, j-rock, jazz, and lofi. I mostly like to play Japanese music because it’s fast paced and I really like how it sounds. My recent favorite artists are TUYU, ZUTOMAYO, and After The Rain.\nWhat’s your favorite thing about Stages or do you have a favorite Stages memory?\nMy favorite thing is to just learn music. I really enjoy learning different techniques, how to play songs, and make a bass line. Also, it’s not stressful. Stages is way more fun than actual school.\nWhat are your musical goals? What is one of your non-music related goals?\nMy musical goals are to join a band and to do my best to make the experience the most fulfilling I can make it. My non-music related goal is to do well and pass all of my classes.\nTell us a favorite fun fact about yourself NOT related to music.\nI really like drawing. I draw with a pen a lot, and sometimes I’ll draw tattoos on myself or other people.\nSign up with your email address to receive news and updates.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|6||x or Ab||4th fretfr.||optionalopt.|\nGuitar chords in the key of C# or Db:\nChord Db13 (3rd fret) notes: (Ab), Db, F, Cb, Eb and Bb. (Cb=B).\nThe note Ab on the sixth string is not required, but can be played on the 4th fret if needed.\nDb13 - Db(C#) dominant 13th guitar chord.\n1(C#/Db), 3(F), 5(G#/Ab), b7(B/Cb), 9(D#/Eb), 13(A#/Bb).", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Reincarnation Album - 12\" Vinyl\nThe new album \"Reincarnation\" by BONZIE. All songs written by BONZIE, and co-produced by BONZIE and DJ Camper & Yeti Beats. 183 gram high quality 12\" vinyl. Reflective iridescent sleeve with silver foil typography exclusive to vinyl. Includes sleeve lyrics. Featured in The New York Times at Rough Trade Records in NYC.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A little girl has won the hearts on the internet for her talent and creativity in playing piano. The 'exceptional talent' of the little girl named Shalmalee even caught the attention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.\nIn a video that has gone viral now, the girl can be seen playing piano in sync with the song Pallavagala Pallaviyali along with a woman, who appears to be her mother.\nAt one point, she is also seen singing along with her mother.\nThe video was initially tweeted by Ananth Kumar with the caption, 'Listened to this so many times..What an inborn talent...'\nPM Modi later retweeted the video and praised the girl for her talent. “This video can bring a smile on everyone’s face. Exceptional talent and creativity. Best wishes to Shalmalee!” the PM wrote.\nThis video can bring a smile on everyone’s face. Exceptional talent and creativity. Best wishes to Shalmalee! https://t.co/KvxJPJepQ4— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 25, 2023\nAs per Ananth Kumar, Pallavagala Pallaviyali is a poem written by renowned Kannada poet KS Narasimha Swamy.\nThe internet users were stunned by the little girl’s talent who flooded the comments section with praise and heart emojis.\n\"Hayeee. She is soooooo adorable. 😍😍😍😍 Even my daughter is able to find the correct notes of any song, little trial and error and she comes up with the exact tune,\" wrote an user.\n\"She is so innocent as well, her mother's voice is also equally mesmerizing,\" remarked another user.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "We want your feedback!\nJennifer has contributed to Dance Magazine ever since graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in dance and journalism. She grew up in Belmont, CA, where she studied ballet, jazz and tap, danced as a corps member with Peninsula Ballet Theatre, and performed in community musical theater productions such as West Side Story and A Christmas Carol. She also trained at the Joffrey Ballet School and American Ballet Theatre in New York. A former senior editor of Pointe, she continues to take ballet, modern and hip hop classes around the city.\nHanna has written on dance for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, Time Out: New York, and The Village Voice. She is co-author of The Ballet Book (Rizzoli, 2003), and has worked as an editor at Travel Holiday, Boating, Adweek and other publications.\nRaymond discovered his earliest dance inspiration in print in the photographs of Barbara Morgan, specifically her collaborations with Martha Graham. As an art and creative director he has been recognized with numerous awards. Raymond is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and cofounder of the contemporary art gallery Curious Matter.\nA native of Floyds Knobs, Indiana, Madeline studied ballet at Southern Indiana School for the Arts and was later introduced to modern dance by Bill Evans. While completing her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography at Ohio University's Honors Tutorial College, she was cast in a historical reconstruction of Alwin Nikolais' Noumenon celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth. As an avid dance videographer and editor, she has worked on video projects for Bates Dance Festival and the Regina Klenjoski Dance Company in Southern California. She later served as a marketing and education manager for Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and is a former assistant editor—research for DanceMedia's various publications. She is currently the managing editor of Dance Magazine and Pointe.\nGrowing up in the Philadelphia suburbs, Jenny’s love for dance was instilled by her first ballet teachers, Edmund Novak and Irina Kovalska. She continued her training at Boston Ballet's Summer DanceLab and the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, and received a B.F.A. from the Boston Conservatory. A former assistant editor of Dance Teacher, she continues to teach children's dance classes in NYC.\nKristin Schwab grew up in the Twin Cities as a competition kid, turned bunhead, turned modern dancer. She graduated cum laude from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dance and Journalism. Kristin has taught ballet at the Joffrey NY summer program, has danced with Minnesota Dance Theatre and currently dances with James Martin and Summation Dance Company. Kristin edits Technique, Face to Face, Recommended, Music, Theory and Practice and Higher Ed.\nMeggie began studying ballet on the North Shore of Chicago at a young age, and later attended the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City on scholarship. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in dance and English. A former intern for Pointe magazine, she worked in development at The Joffrey Ballet, first as executive assistant to the executive director, then as the Women's Board manager.\nWendy danced with the Trisha Brown Dance Company in the 1970s and has performed with many other NYC choreographers. Her own group, the Wendy Perron Dance Company, appeared at The Joyce, DTW, the Danspace Project, and the Lincoln Center Festival, as well as in cities throughout the U.S. She was one of eight choreographers profiled in the documentary film Retracing Steps: American Dance Since Postmodernism. She has taught dance at many colleges including Bennington and Princeton, and in contemporary dance centers in Europe and Russia. In addition to contributing articles to The New York Times, The Village Voice, Ballet Review, and of course, Dance Magazine, Wendy has written a brief memoir about her training and influences in Reinventing Dance in the 1960s: Everything Was Possible, edited by Sally Banes. She has served on the Bessies committee and has been an artistic advisor to Fall for Dance at NY City Center.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The B Sharp Big Band is Melbourne’s most exciting swingin’ Big Band – just ask their biggest fan, James Morrison! They’re bringing a fresh, invigorating sound to Melbourne and casting a spell on new audiences with every performance. The B#(sharp) sound has certainly got feet a-tappin’ and hearts a-poundin’ all over town!\nThe founder and manger, Henry K, was keen to pull together some of Australia’s best individual jazz performers to perform the classic arrangements of Basie, Ellington, Goodman, Miller and other Big Cats of the 30’s, 40’s & 50’s. Many of the arrangements B Sharp Big Band has acquired, or had carefully arranged, are well known classics! Some have for many years been ‘lost’ classics, not performed by other Big Bands around Melbourne, and rarely in Australia, if at all.\nB# are determined to resuscitate these infectious tunes with a fresh twist, exposing new audiences to the lush, invigorating sound that made Big Band swing addictive to swing ears then, and now again.\nB Sharp Big Band Jazz Sample\nB Sharp Big Band Funk Sample\nTo effectively perform these exciting and complex tunes, B sharp has cajoled some of the most passionate musicians of international standing to lend their expertise and talent. The band understands the important nuances of Big Band swing and what sets it apart. The lion’s share of B sharp ‘s arrangements are for a 17 piece Big Band – and they take’ it to the stage that way, just as the original arrangers intended. That means a big, slick, energised sound, with more than a nod to the particular acoustic style of the era. In addition, a 10 piece version of the band, known as the ‘B# Big Combo’, delivers a punchy, swingin’ sound where smaller spaces or smaller occasions prevail.\nFrom the moment the curtain draws back, the band’s striking presentation – consisting of full, new, 1940’s style outfits and their custom built, deco inspired music stands – gives the audience a taste of what’s to come. But it’s only after one considers the exceptional talent that dons each outfit and occupies each stand, that the full exciting potential of this band is realised.\nThe band has hosted the ‘cat’s pajamas’ of vocal talent, including Nina Ferro, Emma Franz, Julie O’Hara, Dave Williamson, Eugene Hamilton, Fiona Thorn, Frank Benedetto and David Dean (aka Dean’s Martini). David Campbell, Ross Wilson, Jane Clifton and Joe Camilleri have also featured as guest vocalists. And speaking of honoured guests, James Morrison has performed with the band on several occasions and has had this to say about them:\n“When I’m in Melbourne, there’s only one Big Band I want on stage with me – B#!”\n“Melbourne hasn’t known a swinging Big Band like this for a long time!”\nLittle wonder B Sharp Big Band has previously been invited to launch The Melbourne International Jazz Festival and perform for many significant corporate functions. (A list of these can be provided on request.) In addition, the band has performed live to air on ABC radio, and staged many public performances. Their sparkling presentation and performance standards have been right at home at prestigious venues such as The Forum, Ormond Hall, Crown Palladium, The Park Hyatt and The Grand Hyatt.\nIn addition to James Morrison’s endorsements, testimonials are available from clients and venue managers that the band has worked with. B# also has strong relationships with experienced and reliable suppliers of services that allow the band to shine, including a highly qualified sound engineer, stage management crew, dance performance troupes, graphic designer and photographer.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rising musician duo AGENCY drop summer house anthem “Dreams,” fusing melodic piano with energetic basslines and floaty vocals that leaves us motivated to chase all our goals and ambitions.\nOffering up a hook-laden glimpse of their upcoming album A HOUSE SUPREME, the exuberant production soars and gets us grooving along in a vibrant showcase of musicians Derran Day and Joseph Vitterito individual and combined musicality. Having met in 2016 and developing a collaborative relationship on “Red To The Moon,” the duo have carved a niche for themselves with a signature R&B-tinged electronic sound.\nWith Vitterito’s simple yet catchy lyricism carried by Day’s vocal range, the duo have grown leaps and bounds in six years producing 15 albums and multiple singles together. Now with their highly-anticipated album on the horizon, the pair are setting themselves up for bigger and better moves in music.", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "The star of Aram Khachaturian, whose incorporation of ethnic music into a concert language was no less thorough than Bartók's, although more conservative, seems to be on the way up. The fact that he never actually set foot in Armenia is unfairly held against him; he was well acquainted with the music of that former Soviet republic, his father's homeland. Violinist Ara Malikian, likewise an Armenian born elsewhere (in Lebanon), makes a good partner for Khachaturian in this entertaining audiophile release from Spain's Non Profit Music label. The trick with the composer's Violin Concerto, premiered in 1940 by David Oistrakh, is to combine mastery of its serious technical difficulties (goosed by Oistrakh in cooperation with the composer) with rhythmic vitality and festive flair. This Malikian accomplishes very nicely, digging into rather than minimizing the concerto's moments of sentiment. He's aided by superior hybrid-SACD production, executed in a concert hall called El Palacio de Congresos de Badajoz Manuel Rojas in Spain's Extremadura region. The strings of the Extremadura Symphony Orchestra have a very attractive, slightly buzzy sheen, and you get to hear them up close. The orchestra and conductor Jesús Amigo can't claim any ethnic kinship with the composer but turn in a lively account of his Masquerade Suite, consisting of incidental music for a play by Lermontov. The opening Waltz offers one of Khachaturian's endlessly catchy tunes. The sumptuous hardbound booklet, with notes in Spanish and shaky English, may help the label live up to its name but does introduce the works and performers concisely. Recommended, especially for audiophile buyers.\nAllMusic Review by James Manheim\n|Concerto for violin and orchestra|", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "About Juan Alderete\nJuan Alderete is an American bassist known for his work with the bands Racer X and The Mars Volta. He is famous for his copious use of effects, and his wide-ranging playing techniques. These skills have allowed him to play a variety of musical styles, from jazz, to heavy metal and progressive rock.\nJuan Alderete, born John Peter Alderete, started to play music at an early age. Through his father and brother he was exposed to jazz music and bands like Yes, Rush and King Crimson including Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke. Alderete while still being in his teens, quickly picked up the techniques of these influencers.\nAt Musicians Institute in L.A California, where Alderete enrolled after finishing high school, he hooked up with Paul Gilbert and Harry Gschoesser to form the speed metal band Racer X. The band split up after four years of playing, and for the next couple of years Alderete was involved in several different bands, including The Scream, DC-10, Big Sir, and Distortion Felix. In addition Alderete became an instructor at Musicians Institute where he started as a student.\nIn 1999, Alderete reunited with Racer X going on to record another album Technical Difficulties. It included new as well as older songs never released before.\nA few years later, after receiving a phone call from The Mars Volta´s Omar Rodríguez-López, Alderete got invited for an audition for the band and eventually got the job.\nApart from being involved with The Mars Volta with whom he won a Grammy Award for their song Wax Simulacra, Alderete has been involved with his own musical projects, Vato Negro and Big Sir. Vato Negro is a group with a revolving door of musicians, including Deantoni Parks, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, and Jon Theodore. Big Sir is a group composed of Juan and singer Lisa Papineau. The band has released two albums, and are currently recording a third. Alderete has performed with both groups in 2010 in California and Fuji Rock Festival in Japan.\nAlderete usually plays Fender Precision basses and uses loads of different bass effects and gear. He collaborated with us to do a TonePrint for Shaker Vibrato called Vato Vibrato.\nTonePrints by Juan Alderete\nVideos with Juan Alderete\nJuan Alderete makes his \"Vato Vibrato\" TonePrint for Shaker Vibrato\nThe Mars Volta - Dyslexicon @ Azkena Rock Festival 2012 [PROSHOT]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A big \"thank you\" to Ivan & Erin Ribic for inviting me to do this in Spokane. It was such a RUSH to squat under the lights in front of so many people in that packed Event Center of the Northern Quest Casino.\nOur friend, Robbie Walden, performed last night at Druids Glen Taphouse.\nRobbie has a new album out and he autographed a CD for us. Go check him out in iTunes or Spotify...the Robbie Walden Band sings Country music and has been getting play on XM-Sirius \"The Highway\". Its truly inspirational to hear how he wrote each song.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "All music students must complete Theory of Music I, II, III and two history / literature courses. Students seeking a B.A. degree must also complete four terms of lessons and ensembles and one music elective.\nBachelor of Music degree candidates in Performance and Composition complete Theory of Music IV, and all Bachelor of Music degree candidates complete an additional history / literature course, and eight terms of lessons and ensembles, or seven with student teaching. The number of additional required courses for specializations within the Bachelor of Music program varies according to the area of specialization. All candidates for this degree must pass the Keyboard Fundamentals Examination, and Composition and Performance majors must present a satisfactory full-length recital.\nStudents who minor in music take six music courses. Up to two of those courses may be the Applied Music Course: a specific combination of lessons, concert attendance, and ensembles described in the music portion of the catalog and in the music department handbook.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "One of Andreas Tilliander\n’s many monikers, Mokira showcases the producer’s ambient work, which juxtaposes steady rhythms with turbid glitch and hazy static. Tilliander’s first album as Mokira, Cliphop (2000), won him much acclaim as well as a recording contract with Mille Plateaux, for whom he recorded his follow-up, Plee (2002). In addition, other labels such as Klanggalerie and Fat Cat have released one-off Mokira recordings.\nEdited by [deleted user] on 19 Dec 2006, 00:08\nRegistered users can edit this page. Sign up now, it’s free and you will discover so much great music :)\nAll user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.\nText may also be available under the GNU Free Documentation License.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By: Mathew Schumer\nOn Friday, Oct. 11, Western Connecticut State University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts hosted an evening of music provided by three of their exceptional jazz combos. For their first show of the semester, WCSU’s jazz combos performed three sets of three tunes—a blend of jazz standards and originally composed and arranged material—in the Visual and Performing Arts Center’s Veronica Hagman Concert Hall.\nFirst to perform was the five-piece Metcalf Combo, coached by WCSU Adjunct Instructor of Music Lee Metcalf. The Metcalf Combo played a three-part set, consisting primarily of standard compositions, two of which were lead by vocalist and alto saxophonist Madeline Williams. Williams was joined by Nick Kallajain on tenor sax, Jake Falce on guitar, Steven Mastrianna on bass, and Avery Gottshal on drums.\nFollowing the Metcalf Combo was the first of two combos coached by Co-Coordinator of Jazz Studies Dr. Jimmy Greene. Among the three tunes performed by the Greene II Combo was a composition called “L.N.K Blues” by contemporary artist Robert Glasper, who made an appearance at last year’s WCSU Jazz Fest. Included in the Greene II Combo was Griffin D’Amato on trumpet, Ryan Papagelis on alto sax, Eric Simmons on tenor sax, Elise Ngbo on piano, Rachel Merriam on guitar, Miles Livolsi on bass, and Jesse Parker on drums.\nClosing out the night with two more tunes accompanied by a medley of Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn standards was the second of Dr. Greene’s combos, the Greene I Combo. Their set began with a slight bout of tuning difficulties, but the combo eventually found their groove with a powerful tone-setting performance of “Paradisiaco”, which was written and arranged by the group’s bassist Victor Ramirez. Comprising the rest of the combo was Malin Carta on alto sax and vocals, Matt Schmidt on baritone sax, Bentley Lewis on guitar, and Ethan Benton on drums.\nAlongside the combos, Dr. Greene took the stage as host for the evening to address the crowd and introduce the combos. Dr. Greene also used the platform as an opportunity to inform the audience of upcoming jazz-related events at WCSU. Included among those events were the following two combo performances of the season, the latter of which, Dr. Greene said, would feature the participation of the jazz program’s “guest artist” for the Fall semester.\nMembers of the WCSU and local communities are encouraged to attend the next jazz combo performance, which will take place on Sunday, Nov. 3 at 3 p.m. in the Visual and Performing Arts Center’s Veronica Hagman Concert Hall.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Double bassist David Ballam sent me this great photo of his extension (made by Chris Thelkreld-Wiegend) dominating the Chicago skyline. David is a Masters degree students studying with Peter Lloyd at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. I really like this photo!\n- Bass shot of the day – Tim Cobb\n- Scott Rosenthal and Jason goof off before interview\n- Koussevitzky’s giant bass case\n- Four bass players playing one instrument\n- Monolithic bass trunks\nBass News Right To Your Inbox!\nSubscribe to get our weekly newsletter covering the double bass world.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Nazya’s work makes a compelling contact point for young Christians who find themselves hungry for something with spiritual depth but who are put off by showy religiosity.\nThe six-track EP is a hook-laden sonic adventure that augments some of the standard conventions of contemporary praise music with modern electronic dance music elements.\nMax Aka reviews Adam Washington's album, Artifacts I.\nSlated for release on November 11, the EP promises to showcase Odinma’s evolution as both a musician and, as the title suggests, a storyteller.\nSubscribe to the Spectrum Magazine newsletter for email updates!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Newcomer, Nara L. “Discovery Systems I: Challenges and Needs for Music Discovery.” International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres Conference. Vienna, Austria. July 30, 2013.\n- Newcomer, Nara L. with Rebecca Belford, Deb Kulczak, Kimmy Szeto, Jennifer Matthews, and Misti Shaw. “Anforderungen an Musik-Discovery-Systeme.” [“Music Discovery Requirements.”] trans. Torsten Senkbeil and Cordula Werbelow. Forum Musikbibliothek 34, no. 2 (July 2013): 14–23. [condensed version of Notes article]\n- Newcomer, Nara L., Rebecca Belford, Deb Kulczak, and Kimmy Szeto with Jennifer Matthews, Misti Shaw. “Music Discovery Requirements: A Guide to Optimizing Interfaces.” Notes 69, no. 3 (March 2013), 494–524.\n- Belford, Rebecca, Steve Henry, Nara Newcomer, Steven Nordstrom, Sam Cook, and Winston Barham. “Discovery Interfaces and Music.” Music Library Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, March 2, 2013. (sponsored by the Emerging Technologies and Services Committee).\n- Iseminger, Beth, Kathy Glennan, Stephanie Bonjack, Nara Newcomer, and Steve Henry. “RDA for All: RDA, Music Discovery, and Beyond.” Music Library Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, March 2, 2013. (co-sponsored by Bibliographic Control & Emerging Technologies & Services Committees). (download individual sections under the heading Plenary III.)\nBusiness Office: 8551 Research Way, Suite 180, Middleton, WI 53562 | Phone: 608–836–5825 | FAX: 608–831–8200 | Email: email@example.com | © 2009 Music Library Association", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SHANGHAI, 28 November (BelTA - China Daily). - Ballet premiered an original production Follow the Light at the Shanghai International Dance Center on Sunday.\nThe 45-minute production tells the story of a young man's pursuit of light — how he follows and spreads it and eventually becomes part of \"the light\".\nWu Husheng, the leading male dancer of Shanghai Ballet and its new deputy director, says the production is largely inspired by the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Claude Debussy.\nTo create a dialogue between dance and music, Wu has rearranged the third movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and Debussy's Clair de lune (Moonlight), giving his choreography a smooth flow with enriched layers.\nWu says the creative integration of dance and music is key to the performance.\n\"As dancers we have to rely on our body language rather than any other tools to tell a good story and touch the audience,\" he says.\nHe also credits Xin Lili, the company's director, for keeping faith in him throughout the years. This is the fifth choreographed project by Wu, who received his first choreography assignment from Xin in 2017.\n\"At that time, she (Xin) seemed to be the only person in the world who believed that I had the potential to become a choreographer,\" Wu says.\nOn June 5, Shanghai Ballet's livestreaming of the rehearsal for Follow the Light was watched by what Xin describes as an unexpected crowd of 410,000 viewers.\n\"Audiences participated in the creative process of our new production in this new way, and we felt greatly encouraged,\" Xin says. \"This is our production of the year, and we had to overcome many difficulties during the creative process.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Exposé print issues (1993-2011)\nPatto — And That's Jazz\n(Beyond Before, 1973/2021, CD+DVD)\nby Henry Schneider, Published 2021-05-15\nPatto was a British progressive band founded in 1970 by vocalist Mike Patto. Band members included Ollie Halsall (guitar and vibraphone), Clive Griffiths (bass), and John Halsey (drums). They released three albums in the early 70s. In 1973 they began recording their fourth album Monkey’s Bum, but it was not released and Patto disbanded. Monkey’s Bum eventually had an authorized release in 2017. And now in 2021 a live album recorded on January 21, 1973 in London was just released. However the sound quality is so poor that it makes listening to the music a challenge at the very least. The tinny sound detracts from anything the band is doing. There is a companion DVD that thankfully has much better sound quality, though still below par, containing a ten-minute Beat Club session from January 1971 with annoying psychedelic video effects and an eight-minute Pop Deux broadcast from March 6, 1971. Patto had gritty aggressive vocals and a spastic performance like Joe Cocker. But unfortunately I found the performances boring and uninspired. Their sound was pretty stripped down to individual instruments, not a unified band. Patto sounded basically like Ollie Halsall noodling on his guitar with Patto singing, plus some drums. Pretty sparse. This was partly the result of Bernie Holland of Jody Grind filling in for their bassist on the Pop Deux broadcast. If you’ve never encountered Patto before, And That’s Jazz is definitely NOT the place to start. I suppose this album will only be of interest to Patto completists. Definitely not a release you’d want to spend your hard-earned cash on.\nThese are the most recent changes made to artists, releases, and articles.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dallas — Richard Strauss’s tragic opera Salome (1906) will be performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Morton H Meyerson Symphony Center on Jan. 31 and Feb. 2, conducted by Fabio Luisi.\nBased on the Oscar Wilde play, the opera is a strange and lurid piece of art best known for the lascivious tale of the title character, a princess who falls in fascinated love with the prophet John the Baptist only to have him killed by her obsession. Without question, the most iconic moment is the frenetic and erotic “Dance of the Seven Veils,” a paramount vocal and performance challenge for any soprano. The opera has shocked audiences with its brutality and eroticism since its earliest performances and has even been banned in major venues like Austria and London during its history.\nDespite its sensational nature, at the heart of the play and the opera is a serious discussion of the nature of God and religion and the reception of the iconoclastic message of Christianity. Long before the bloodthirst and passion take over, the stage is set by a dense philosophical argument by a group of learned Jewish leaders which heralds the arrival of the Baptist. From there the headlong action of the drama commences. It is a moment often overlooked, but one that Wilde felt was of paramount importance to his poem and one which is exquisitely framed by Strauss. Without the discussion by the Jews, the opera is just a grotesque tabloid story.\nOne of the singers in this seminal scene, tenor Matthew Corcoran, discusses his part in the action. He also talks about the efforts of mounting a major production and about an opera’s ability to shock in the twenty-first century.\nTheaterJones: Matt, this is your first performance with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Welcome. Can you tell us a bit about how you became involved in this project?\nMatthew Corcoran: Thanks. To be honest, it’s still a mystery. I don’t know how they got my name or who recommended me, but I got a call to ask if I wanted to sing in the production. I play the part of the Third Jew, one of a quintet of tenors who have this animated discussion about the nature of religion and God. It’s an amazing piece of music, angry, yelling and bombastic. It starts up and then takes off like a rocket, building in intensity until suddenly the voice of John the Baptist cuts through. It’s a blast to sing.\nWere you familiar with the opera coming in?\nI had heard snippets of the opera before. And of course, I knew of the “Dance of the Seven Veils.” It’s one of the most famous scenes in all of opera. But I hadn’t heard the whole work until I got the part. It’s a stunning piece. It’s all done in one long act, but it is so active and engaging that it just seems to move forward.\nSalome has a long and controversial history. What can you share about the current presentation? How will you perform the climactic scenes? Can an opera like this still shock people nowadays?\nI think so. First of all, it involves the beheading of a prophet, so no matter what is going on in society, that’s still a shocking thing. The most important thing is to find a unique way to spin the story, so that it feels fresh and new, even though it’s a hundred years old.\nThe amazing thing about classical music is the way that weathers the test of time. I think about the recent production of Carmen [by the Dallas Opera in 2018]. It’s a classic and they made some important changes to the story, but it still felt like something that was relevant.\nWe haven’t started working on the staging yet. Rehearsals start this week. I know that the opera will be semi-staged, so I imagine for my part that will mean to be animated and to make sure that we are telling the story. I don’t know what the plans are for the “Dance of the Veils,” whether there will be a dance of not. I guess the audience will just have to come out and see. You don’t want to reveal everything before its time.\nSure. Keep the audience guessing. This is your first performance with a major music company like the Dallas Symphony. What has your journey been like to get to this point?\nI have performed at the Meyerson before in a concert production of Candide with the Dallas Winds, but I agree this is the highest-level performance I have ever done.\nI was raised in a small town in Massachusetts called Ipswich, which is not far from Salem where the witch trials were. My musical background was in a rock band, although I always liked art songs. I decided to study Music Education and went to one of the state schools that had a strong program in that. But I did some work in the opera workshop and kind of fell in love with the music and with singing theatrically. I was not in theater in high school, I was on the football team. I guess I did pretty well because I was encouraged by my instructors to go on in the field, and I got my master’s from Boston University. But at that point, I felt like I hit a wall. I didn’t feel like I was progressing as fast as I should have been and started to have some self-doubts. My teachers at BU suggested I look at other parts of the country and when I first sang for Clifton Forbis at SMU [Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts], I knew that this was where I wanted to be and who I wanted to be training with.\nDallas has been so exciting and welcoming. And it’s been a great place for my wife, who is an Audio Engineer.\nYou were accepted for a Vocal Fellowship at Tanglewood in Massachusetts for this Summer as well. What can you tell us about that opportunity?\nI have always loved the idea and the intimacy of Art Song, and Tanglewood, which is where the Boston Symphony Orchestra has their Summer Festivals, is this symbol of art song and music performed in this beautiful setting up in the mountains. I heard about the Vocal Fellow program so sent in a couple of art song recordings and then flew to Chicago for the audition. It’s another great opportunity and I feel like things are really starting to move forward for me, not just here in Dallas but all over.\nAt the risk of asking a trite question, how important is this role in Salome to you?\nI don’t want to come off as a typical blasé performer, like this is just another role. This opera is a huge thing for me. To get to perform with such a great conductor [Maestro Luisi] and to be sharing the stage with so many great singers. And to know that I belong here just shows how much hard work pays off.\nI think this part is a measure of some of the success that I am having both here and beyond. This is my last semester at SMU and I definitely see myself staying in Dallas. But I am hoping that this will be the springboard to other opportunities.\nIt has been a blast to sing at the Meyerson. In Boston we have Symphony Hall, which is this amazing world-famous theater. The Meyerson has the same feeling. So much tradition and so many people.\nSince we haven’t started rehearsals, I don’t know how different a production with the DSO will be from others I have done. But I know what the expectations are for me. I want to be completely prepared, have the music memorized (which I do), know the opera, and know what I’m supposed to be doing at all time. I want to show up and do my job and who knows, maybe they’ll call me back again.\nI think people who come to Salome or to any performance show have to realize how much work goes into a production, from the singers and musicians to the production staff and backstage crew. We have worked our tails off and the reward is a final product that we can all be proud of and that we hope the audience will enjoy.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I am so grateful to be able to write, record and perform music for a living.\nMusic is such a gift to us all and I appreciate it more with each passing day.\nI started playing drums when I was in 5th grade and picked up other instruments along the way. My mom and dad were both always so supportive. They allowed my brother and I to have our drum sets in the living room...thats right, 2 drum sets in the LIVING ROOM, and they never once asked us NOT to play. My mom was especially supportive since she was the one home all day and had to put up with all the noise. My mom passed in 2004 and my dad passed in 2014. May God rest their beautiful souls. I thank God every day for allowing me to have them as my parents.\nIt is October 2019 and I feel like I am just beginning. I've been writing songs for over 30 years but I’ve never really shared them. I never felt compelled to chase after some record deal to “make it” or to go out and be “Johnny Rock Star”. I have zero interest in that and I “made it” a long time ago. However, I have always been very passionate about music and as of 2019 I’ve decided to start sharing my music with anyone who is willing to listen. My plan is to release/post original music (at least 2-3 songs) quarterly beginning in September 2019. I have a very clear vision as to how I want to share my music and how you can come along for the ride. My goal is to be as close to 100% authentic as possible. I write everything. I play everything. I release everything on my own terms. 100% Independent. Good or bad, it is all my fault. I will have more details on how I plan to move forward upon release of my first song in September 2019. I hope you will stay tuned and follow me as things develop.\nCurrently, my live show consists of some of my original music as well as covers of songs I like. (I only cover songs that I like.) I usually play the first portion of my show with just acoustic guitar and vocals and then ramp up to include my backing tracks. Every note of my show, pre-recorded and otherwise, is 100% my doing. I don't sequence or download anything. You probably don’t care about this, but I do. The thought of downloading or sequencing backing tracks makes my skin crawl.\nThings I Love: God, my family, America, my friends, our St. Louie Blues, polite and respectful people, seeing my wife and kids smile and laugh, real instruments played by real musicians, Adriana's on The Hill, chocolate covered almonds, ice cream, the truth, a good nap, iced tea, tator chips, Popeye’s Chicken, golf, tennis...\nThings I Do Not Like: PC Culture, drunk idiots, rude and disrespectful people, when the Blues lose, when I am out of chocolate covered almonds, when Popeye’s Chicken is closed, taking breaks at my shows, writer's block, virtue signaling, faux outrage...\nWhy don’t I take breaks at my shows? - Breaks are for pansies. (Just kidding. Don’t be offended…) The truth is that I’d rather be playing than NOT playing. The only times I have taken a break since I started playing solo 10 years ago is due to illness or equipment malfunctions. Thankfully, neither of these things happen very often.\nWhere did I “get” my backing tracks? - I didn’t “get” them anywhere. I made them, one track at a time, myself. Every note of my live show is my doing. If I had five sets of hands I could do it all at once but since I don’t, I have to record the other parts and play over them.\nDo I play private events? - Absolutely. I play everything from corporate events to private backyard parties.\nThat’s enough about me for now. Now read about my friend...\nA lot of people have asked what the “282” on my guitar strap is all about, so here it is…\n282 is the badge number for the late law enforcement officer Tom “Fritz” Ballman. Tom was killed in the line of duty on Feb. 7th, 2008 in the tragic and senseless Kirkwood City Hall shootings.\nI am proud to say that Tom Ballman was my friend. We had gone to school together since 6th grade. The very first time I ever performed music in front of anyone was in Tom’s basement during a party he hosted in 8th grade. I remember Tom being so supportive and enthusiastic about us performing at his party despite the fact that we were just starting to learn our instruments and were not very proficient, to say the least. We were brutal, yet Tom was always complimenting us. I will never forget that. I wear my “282″ strap as a way of making sure that Tom is never forgotten. Folks always come up to me at shows and ask what the 282 means and I get the pleasure of telling them all about a guy who was worth talking about. Tom “Fritz” Ballman will never be forgotten.\nTom’s wife, Cindy, has established “The Fritz Foundation” as a way of keeping Tom’s memory alive and continuing his life’s work of helping others. Please visit www.thefritzfoundation.org for more information.\nGrowth, Peace & Gratitude,", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The title 'Bach's Testament' well describes the music\ngathered in this handsome boxed set, which features a new recording\nof The Musical Offering and a reissue of a fifteen-year-old performance\nof The Art of Fugue, both directed by Jordi Savall, one\nof the world's most distinguished musicians in the field of 'early music'.\nIn the last years of his life - the 1740s - Bach gave his attention to the projects which most appealed to him. He composed the music he wanted to compose, and two works can justly be described as his 'opus summus': in vocal music, the Mass in B minor, and in instrumental music The Art of Fugue. And a third project, The Musical Offering, comes into a similar category.\nThe Musical Offering came into being as the direct result of Bach's appearance on 7th May 1747 at the Court of Frederick the Great at Potsdam. Frederick was himself a talented musician (a flautist) and during the course of the proceedings he gave Bach a theme on which to improvise a fugue. Bach duly did so, to the astonishment of the Emperor, but then he stated that he felt he could do better, to which end he intended 'to set Frederick's exceedingly beautiful theme to paper in a regular fugue and have it printed by means of copper engraving'.\nThus did The Musical Offering come into being, dedicated to Frederick the Great and printed at Bach's own expense. The sequence contains two ricercars, a trio sonata, and ten canons. If this plan seems unduly academic, the music proves otherwise, and offers further proof of Bach's genius in developing closely considered musical ideas with the utmost imagination.\nThe new recording by Le Concert des Nations directed by Jordi Savall is certainly compelling, not least because of the ambient and clear perspective of the recorded sound, which seems ideal for this repertoire. Tempi and phrasing are aptly chosen, and the individual players of the eight-strong ensemble bring a varied contribution to the committed teamwork which of necessity lies at the heart of any performance of this remarkable music. Bach intended the work as a tribute, and wrote the music with the utmost concern for detail and sincerity of expression. And these priorities are experienced in this excellent performance.\nThe Art of Fugue was recorded by Hespérion XX under Jordi Savall's direction as long ago as 1986. Again the recorded sound is remarkable and admirably clear, although the acoustic somehow gives the music a 'larger than life' quality. The score is by no means prescriptive as to the instrumentation, although the safest option remains keyboard: either harpsichord or organ. The ensemble Savall chooses is somewhat archaic, since it features four viols (treble, alto, tenor and bass), then occasionally cornett, trombone, oboe da caccia and bassoon.\nThe performances are sophisticated and skilful in the extreme, and there is no question that these are very talented players, very disciplined in their ensemble. The principal issue is one of style. Are viols to be preferred to violins in this music? The answer has to be 'probably not'. Of course Bach's music always defies easy analysis and proscriptive performance indicators, not least in this piece. And one thing that certainly supports Savall's approach is the extraordinarily appealing clarity of texture, which is lucid at every stage. However, the sound of the instruments too easily makes the music seem quaint rather than profound.\nThe booklet is beautifully organised and designed. But the lurking doubts about the instrumentation of The Art of Fugue make this an alternative performance rather than an essential one.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Inside Flow by Our Yoga Mind\nInside Flow is a modern technique combining yoga, dancing, music and emotions.\n- 25 euros€25\n- Finca Hotel Son Boronat\nInside Flow is a modern technique combining yoga, dancing, music and emotions: your body sings a song and embodies the energy of the music. You will consciously move through a vinyasa flow on beat by linking poses together and focusing on the transitions instead of the asanas itself. The flow class prepares you for a main song where movement, breath, heartbeat, music and emotions unites. There is always a story and a message connected to the song which we introduce before the final flows, therefore we will work with the related emotions too. On this way we create a safe space to simply be and feel, and to move through any stagnant energy. Inside Flow is a heart-opening practice, so you will feel liberated and light-hearted after the workshop. It also awakens the life force in the body. By flowing together as a group, we collectively raise our vibration therefore it’s an empowering experience indeed. In order to participate on an Inside Flow class we recommend to have min. 1-2 years of alignment based yoga asana practice.\nCamí de Son Boronat, 33, Calvià, Spain", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Farmington High School Band Program is a comprehensive instrumental music education program serving over 300 students. Comprising five concert bands, four jazz ensembles, competitive marching band, pep band, solo/ensemble contest, winter percussion, and many other small ensembles, FHS band students collaborate with professional conductors, composers, and college ensembles on a regular basis.\nThe concert ensembles are the nucleus of Farmington High School's band program. Based on grade level and/or audition results, FHS students participate in Varsity Band, Concert Band, Symphonic Band, and Wind Ensemble. The FHS Concert Bands are top-tier ensembles that qualify several students each year for prestigious programs like the Minnesota All-State Band.\nThe jazz program is a hallmark of FHS and the greater Farmington community. FHS jazz ensembles have been selected for the most prestigious performances, including appearances at the Minnesota Music Educators Midwinter Clinic and Carnegie Hall. As a curricular class, all three Jazz Bands meet daily throughout the school year. The jazz ensembles perform three formal concerts annually, participate in several regional festivals, and perform often for community and social events.\nThe Farmington Tiger Marching Band has been a staple of football games and area parades for decades, but also began competing in field marching festivals in 2014. After only three years of competition, the Farmington Tiger Marching Band took 4th Place in the 2016 Minnesota Class A Marching Band Championships. In the winter season, the FHS Pep Band is one of the most exciting groups around, playing regularly for varsity hockey and basketball teams.\nThe FHS Bands are directed by Erin Holmes, who has been teaching music in the Farmington School District since 2000; Bradley Mariska, who joined the FHS team in 2016; and Matt Clark, who began his tenure in 2018.\nHelp us fund the wonderful music our students play each year in Marching, Concert, Jazz & Pep Band. Go to https://www.tigerfanclub.org/library to make a donation. And as always, THANK YOU!\nWe need your help. We also have multiple Coordinator Positions for next year available. If you are interested in any of the following please reach out to us now so that you can shadow the current coordinator:\nVolunteer Director – Voting Position. Duties include attending all board meetings, creating & updating all Signup Genius events for volunteers, communicating with volunteers all pertinent information about events, working with event coordinators to understand the volunteer needs, creating sign in sheets for events, meeting & overseeing volunteers at events. This position is the busiest during the marching band season May-Oct.\nNon-Voting Coordinator Positions: The positions oversee events and report to a board member. It is helpful to attend month board meetings but not necessary.\nBand Brunch Asst. Coordinator – will work alongside the Band Brunch Coordinator and hopefully eventually move into the Brunch Coordinator position\nFestivals & Indoor Show Coordinator – Oversee all festivals including a DCI event at FHS and the Marching Band Indoor Show. This includes concessions and working with Directors to plan and oversee the events.\nCo-Uniform Coordinator – work with the other Uniform coordinator overseeing all uniform needs for marching band & wind ensemble. This position is required to be at all events when marching band uniforms are worn including parades, football games and festivals.\nAsst. Uniform Coordinator – work with uniform coordinators to provide assistance with all uniform needs.\nAsst. Fundraising Coordinator – work with the Fundraising Coordinator to learn the position and then move into that position eventually.\nTiger Scramble Asst. Coordinator – work with the Coordinator for the Tiger Scramble planning and executing the one day fundraising/community event in July.\nPlease contact us @ firstname.lastname@example.org and we will promptly get back to you.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Nashville Performing Arts Groups Partner with Pulitzer Prize Winning Composer Paul Moravec\nALIAS Chamber Ensemble, Nashville Ballet, Portara co-commission new work\nThree prominent Nashville arts organizations—the GRAMMY-nominated ALIAS Chamber Ensemble, Nashville Ballet, and vocal group Portara Ensemble—have come together to commission a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec called Amorisms.\nThe world-premiere will take place in May 2014 in two parts. ALIAS and Portara will give the musical premiere of Amorisms on May 7 as part of the ALIAS Spring concert at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. Also on the program will be Moravec’s Sacred Love Songs rewritten from a recorder quartet to a string quartet for ALIAS, with a revamped fourth movement.\nThe Nashville Ballet will premiere new choreographies to Amorisms and other works by Moravec as part of the Ballet’s Emergence series from May 29-31, 2014, at the Martin Center. ALIAS and the Portara Ensemble will perform all music.\n“I am proud of this collaboration,” said ALIAS Artistic Director Zeneba Bowers. “Our three organizations understand the value of creating and performing new works for the Nashville community, and we pulled together to commission something from Paul Moravec, one of the most exciting composers of our time. It’s inspiring for arts groups across different mediums to come together in this way.”\nAmorisms is a work for string quartet, clarinet and five voices (SSATB). According to Moravec, the piece came to him while visiting Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon last May. The title comes from a musical setting of aphorisms on the subject of love from the works of Shakespeare.\n“As this is a dance piece, I wanted to keep the texts short, simple and set repetitively so that once the audience gets the idea for each movement, it can focus more readily on the dancers themselves,” Moravec said. “I am excited and inspired by the unusual collaborative nature of this project, combining the special artistry of Alias, Portara, and Nashville Ballet.”\nPaul Vasterling, Artistic Director of Nashville Ballet, has engaged choreographers Banning Bouldin, James Gregg and Gina Patterson to create new choreographies for Moravec works for the Ballet’s Emergence series. Patterson will develop choreography for Amorisms, Bouldin for Tempest Fantasy, and Gregg for Sacred Love Songs.\n\"I love this project, and Emergence in general, because each discipline stimulates the others. Not only is it an amazing way of building community, but this project is also a wonderful way to discover new inspiration,” explained Vasterling. “Mixing up all these artists brings out the best in all of us and creates something that would never have come into existence had it not been for our work together.\"\nFollowing the premiere of Amorisms, ALIAS and the Portara Ensemble will record a CD of Moravec works on the Delos label. In addition to Amorisms, other works will include Sacred Love Songs, which the composer has arranged specifically for ALIAS and the Portara Ensemble, and Moravec’s Pulitzer Prize winning work Tempest Fantasy. The CD release date is set for early 2015.\nALIAS and Moravec have collaborated on previous projects. In 2004, ALIAS hosted the composer for its performance of Tempest Fantasy—a piece that won him the Pulitzer Prize later that year. Moravec also arranged one of his choral-orchestral works, \"Always, Always,\" from Songs of Love and War as a chamber version for ALIAS to perform in 2009 for a Veteran’s Day program.\nALIAS Spring Concert\nMay 7, 2014 at 8 pm\nTurner Hall, Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music (2400 Blakemore Ave., Nashville)\nMoravec: Amorisms for clarinet, string quartet and SSATB voices (2014, World Premiere)\nMoravec: Sacred Love Songs for string quartet (2012)\nRavel: Sonatine en Trio for flute, cello, and harp (1905)\nDouglas Hill: A Set of Songs and Dances for clarinet, horn, vibraphone, and bass (2006)\nMatt Walker: Grooves for string quartet (2013)\nTickets are $15 ($5 for students) and can be purchased on-line at: www.aliasmusic.org. All proceeds go to Students Taking a Right Stand (STARS).\nNashville Ballet Emergence Series\nThursday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m.\nFriday, May 30 at 7:30 p.m.\nSaturday, May 31 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.\nMartin Center for the Nashville Ballet (3630 Redmon St., Nashville)\nAll music written by Paul Moravec, and choreography by Banning Bouldin (based on Tempest Fantasy), James Gregg (based on Sacred Love Songs), and Gina Patterson (based on Amorisms). Music performed by ALIAS and Portara.\nTickets start at $29 and can be purchased by calling (615) 782-4040 or by visiting nashvilleballet.com.###\nAbout ALIAS Chamber Ensemble\nFounded in 2002, ALIAS is a chamber ensemble dedicated to innovative repertoire, artistic excellence, and a desire to give back to the community. Comprised of 13 professional musicians in Nashville, its wide-ranging repertoire brings audiences a mix of chamber music that cannot be heard anywhere else in the region. To date, ALIAS has premiered 16 new works and recorded two CDs—one of which (Naxos: Gabriela Lena Frank, Hilos) was nominated for a GRAMMY in 2012 for Best Small Ensemble Performance. As part of its mission, ALIAS also adopts three nonprofit partners each season and gives 100 percent of its ticket proceeds to these partners. For more information about ALIAS, visit: www.aliasmusic.org\nAbout Nashville Ballet\nNashville Ballet is the largest professional ballet company in Tennessee. Nashville Ballet presents a varied repertoire of classical ballet and contemporary works by noted choreographers, including original works by Artistic Director & CEO Paul Vasterling. Nashville Ballet and the second company NB2 (a pre-professional training company) serve nearly 60,000 adults and children annually through performances and our outreach and community engagement programming. Curriculum-based outreach programs bring dance education to community centers, colleges, public libraries and public elementary, middle and high schools across the state. The School of Nashville Ballet provides world-class instruction in ballet and other forms of dance for dancers of all ages.\nNashville Ballet is funded in part by Ingram Charitable Trust, Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission, Tennessee Arts Commission, Bridgestone Americas Trust Fund, The Shubert Foundation, Caterpillar Financial, ELAN Hair and Skin, The Memorial Foundation, Publix Super Market Charities, The HCA Foundation, The Mall at Green Hills and thousands of individuals who contribute to our annual operating fund.\nAbout Portara Ensemble\nPortara Ensemble has quickly become a creative force in the music scene of Middle Tennessee. Their innovative programming and artist collaborations have crossed the boundaries of visual and performing arts, and brought exciting new music to their audiences. Led by founder/director Shreyas Patel, Portara Ensemble’s thought-provoking thematic choral programs explore a wide variety of music from around the globe sung by professional, semi-professional, and amateur volunteer singers. 2012 brought the release of Portara’s first CD Recording, Choral Hymns of the Christian Faith. This collection, which delves into the deep tradition of hymn singing in the Christian church, has been lauded “something to celebrate—and to keep close by.” (ClassicsToday.com).\nAbout Paul Moravec:\nMoravec has composed numerous chamber works in his career, and ballet adaptation is not a new idea for him either: The Carolina Ballet (Robert Weiss, director) has choreographed ballets to two major works of his in recent years: “Tempest Fantasy” and “The Time Gallery”.\nCurrently University Professor at Adelphi University (a position unique in the institution), Moravec also recently served as Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He attended Harvard College and then Columbia University and has taught at Dartmouth, Columbia, Hunter College, and Mannes.\nHe has received numerous honors throughout his career, including the Pulitzer Prize in Music (2004) , the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (1984), three awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1986, 1991, 2011), as well as fellowships from the NEA (1989) and the Guggenheim Foundation (2013). In 2010, he was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society. Moravec's discography includes four albums on Naxos American Classics and an orchestral album on BMOP Sound, and works on numerous other CDs.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "“Strauss: Don Juan, Metamorphosen and Songs For Soprano and Piano”\nAcht Gedichte aus 'Letzte Blätter', Op. 10,\nBegegnung (Meeting), AV 72,\nDie erwachte Rose, TrV 90, AV 66,\nDon Juan, Op. 20,\nMorgen, Op. 27 No. 4 (Morning),\nRote Rosen, AV76 (Red Roses).\nJan Latham-Koenig (Piano), Joan Rodgers (Soprano).\nStrasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra – Jan Latham-Koenig.\nJan Latham-Koenig was one of Avie’s flagship artists. As Music Director of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, he recorded the unique coupling of Franck’s Symphony in D with extracts from Psyché (AV 0003), and Ibert’s rare, early opera Persée et Andromède (AV 0008). These recordings of Strauss’ Don Juan and Metamorphosen were Latham-Koenig’s valedictory recordings in Strasbourg, and illuminate his brilliant ability to shape phrases and extract orchestral colour – ideal for Strauss’ vividly pictorial tone poems. An equally accomplished pianist, Latham-Koenig completes the album by accompanying one of England’s leading vocal lights, soprano Joan Rodgers, in a selection of Strauss’ early Lieder.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ted Nugent Streams New Holiday-Appropriate Song, ‘I Love My BBQ’\nStream a holiday-appropriate new song, as Ted Nugent releases \"I Love My BBQ\" just in time for the Fourth of July weekend.\nThe track is part of Nugent's first new studio album in eight years. 'Shutup&Jam,' which features guest spots by Sammy Hagar and longtime Nugent collaborator Derek St. Holmes, is due on July 8 via Frontiers Records.\nNugent recently talked to Ultimate Classic Rock about the inspiration for songs like 'I Love My BBQ,' going in depth on his in-the-moment process: \"I create every song I’ve ever written, screaming and jamming in my living room like an idiot. Or backstage or at a rehearsal with the band while the band’s tuning up and they’ll typically come up to me and go, 'What the f— is that? That’s awesome!' and I’ll go, 'I don’t know, I’ve never played it before, but it is awesome!'\"\nNugent is also kicking off a national tour tonight (July 3) in Wichita Falls, Texas, with dates continuing through August.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Johann Sebastian Bach > Bach: Goldberg Variations Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 7 a 1 Ovvero 2 Clavier\nSorry, the lyric for this track not has been found!\nBach: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042: I. AllegroGreat Moments of Anne-Sophie Mutter\nPiano Concerto No.3 in D, Bwv 1054: 1. AllegroBach, J.S.: 5 Klavierkonzerte\nChristmas Oratorio, BWV 248 - Part Five - For the 1st Sunday in the New Year: No.50 Evangelist: \"Und ließ versammeln alle Hohepriester\"J.S. Bach: The Great Choral Masterpieces\nBach, JS: Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042: II. AdagioBach: Brandenburg Concertos - Violin Concertos\nKeyboard Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1053: I. [Allegro] - RemasteredBach: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 2 & 4, BWV 1053 & 1055 - Gould Remastered", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "X8 Drums Kids Rock at Austin City Limits\nThe mega music festival Austin City Limits was another success this year in Austin, TX. The event wrapped up last weekend and thousands of music fans walked away with bellies full of musical memories.\nX8 Drums was proud to be a part of the event this year as co-sponsor of the Austin Kiddie Limits DrumZone where Mike Marcionetti conducted drum workshops for kids at the event. The DrumZone featured all types of world percussion drums and percussion instruments and Mike facilitated group jams where the kids had an opportunity to be the star!\nPunk drummer in training\nPrincess the X8 Urban Beat Djembe\nOwen Towles in an X8 Tee\nAustin Kiddie Limits will be back again in 2013 at the ACL festival in Austin, TX. Find out more here: http://www.aclfestival.com/experience/austin-kiddie-limits/\nDjembe FangaLooking to learn a new rhythm for your Djembe? Have you tried the Fanga beat? Fanga is a Lib …8th Jun 2022\nBecome part of the MagicMany seeking their own hand drum or djembe have experienced the magic of drumming and drum circles. …5th Jun 2022\nNew Lava Lamp Djembes!Roll into a retro vibe with a groovy Lava Lamp Djembe from X8 Drums. It has a unique d …19th Mar 2022", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Marin Theatre Company, Mill ValleyThe bigger the heart, the bigger the heartbreak. Weighing in at almost 600 pounds, Charlie is a gentle but grieving giant, beached on a couch in Northern Idaho...\nSan Anselmo theater bay area events\nThursday, Oct 2 8:00p\nThursday, Sep 25 6:30p\nShattuck, BerkeleyDoors Open At 6PM Landmark Shuttuck Theaters- 2230 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California 94704 Brought to you by MMTB- Movie Making Throughout the Bay. More on MMTB- http://www.MovieMakingBay...\nSaturday, Aug 23 2:00p\nOld Mill Park, Mill ValleyThe Curtain Theatre, after 14 years of performances in Old Mill Park, this summer is returning to one of Shakespeare's best-loved plays, \"The Tempest,\" directed by Michele Delattre and set in one o...\nThursday, Jan 15 6:00p\nShattuck, BerkeleyTicketing Starts at 6pm Theatre Doors Open At 6:15PM Films with Previews Start 6:30PM Landmark Shuttuck Theaters- 2230 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California 94704 Line Up- Short and Mini-Short Docu...\nFriday, Aug 22 8:00p\nODC Theater, San FranciscoConnect to the rhythm of globally-informed Bay Area dance with Namita Kapoor and Rueda con Ritmo in ODC Theater's presentation of Dance and Diaspora...\nThursday, Jul 24 7:00p\nPrescott Hotel - a Kimpton Hotel, San FranciscoCONJURING WONDER Magic: Up Close & Personal! For the past 20 years, Dennis Kyriakos has performed at corporate functions and upscale private events, and has distinguished himself as one of New Yor...\nSan Anselmo theater bay area Related Topics\narts & crafts | community | business & tech | dance | fairs & festivals | food & dining | music | performing arts | sports & outdoors | visual arts | other | comedy | shopping | holiday | education/campus | june 19th | actors | comedy shows | michelle | comedy | concert | slayer fox theater | reception | andrew rayel cosmic gate | chicago | free | ballroom | sam smith fox sf | theater | jazz festivals | can s | winters | back to school | live performances | foster the people\nDon't Miss This\nLarry Coryell & Bombay Jazz\nat Dinkelspiel AuditoriumSat 7/26 8:00p\nHello Gorgeous! - Cheyenne Jackson Goes to the Movies\nat Davies Symphony HallThu 7/24 7:30p\nHot Tickets More »\nON SALE NOW\nFri 8/8 8:00p\nSat 7/26 8:00p\nThu 7/24 7:00p\nThu 1/15 6:00p\nFri 7/25 9:30p\nUpcoming Holiday Events More »\nWe are CA - Stories of Yosemite with Latino Outdoors\nWed 7/30 6:00p\n“Бал поэтов”. Рустем Галич и Инна Есилевская\nFri 8/1 7:30p", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "> Concert photography\n, Music Festival\n> Kamasi Washington at Pitchfork Music Festival\nKamasi Washington at Pitchfork Music Festival\nOne of my most anticipated sets of Pitchfork turned out to be one of the best. Kamasi Washington and his band played tracks from The Epic and turned the whole crowd into huge jazz fans; at least for the time they were on stage.\nCategories: Concert photography, Music Festival\nafrobeat, Chicago, Concert, concert photography, jazz, kamasi washington, Kendrick Lamar, live music photography, Music, photography, Pitchfork, saxophone, the epic", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "While this differs in some ways from the Queen of the Wave stuff, it still has a big Pepe-vibe to it. The organic/acoustic production, retro sounding, electronics, and catchy/poppy female-centered vocals.\nLove the digitized almost 80's SPEAK AND SPELL sounding voiced lines at points.\nThere's more to come soon from following them on Facebook over the last few months. When? maybe 2017?\nNew Pepe Music! Again! :)\nI was just informed by Higher Powers (TM) that \"Go Girl Go\", the new Pepe song we wrote for the Catskills 20 years comp, is finally ready to be inspected by your audio connoisseur ears!\nHere's a nice introduction written by Monsieur Ranta:\nAnd you can hear the song here:\nIn addition to Paul's modular synth madness and guitar riffs, this simple party tune features Finland's champion cheerleaders (recorded thru a Edison witches hat speaker), a modified Speak & Spell, some laid-back drumming by Teppo Mäkynen, (808 cow)bells&whistles and an ocarina (played by yours truly).\nAvailable exclusively on “Catskills Records: 20 Years of Victory!”, out 25th November on 2 X CD / 3 x Alpine Green Vinyl / Download / Streaming. You can pre-order it here:http://www.catmerch.com/store/advanced_search_result.php…", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "New York, NY (PRWEB) June 17, 2015\nMusic Choice will feature Jussie Smollett and Yazz, from FOX’s Empire in its new artist initiative PRIMED starting Thursday, June 18th. The episode will appear across Music Choice’s entire national footprint including its digital properties with its recently launched streaming video channels on Musicchoice.com. The robust programming initiative gives artists unprecedented access on Music Choice including exposure on the #1 Free Video On Demand network, on TV with Mediabase reported Music Channels and interactively with Music Choice Play.\nPRIMED: Jussie Smollett and Yazz will premiere Thursday, June 18th on Music Choice. It will be available on Music Choice On Demand (Directional: MC On Demand>Primed) and the MC App along with short vignettes appearing throughout the day on Music Choice Play. The duo will also be in heavy rotation on the Hip-Hop and R&B Music Channel. #MCPrimed\nPrimed was originally launched on Music Choice On Demand in 2013. Artists that have been featured include: Macklemore, Lorde, Imagine Dragons, A$AP Rocky and many more. For more information about Music Choice, log on to http://musicchoice.com/ or to become part of the Music Choice community join us on Twitter: @MusicChoice or Facebook.\nAbout Music Choice:\nMusic Choice, the multi-platform video and music network, delivers its music programming to millions of consumers nationwide through their televisions, online and mobile devices. Music Choice programs dozens of uninterrupted music channels; produces originals that feature today’s hottest established and emerging artists; offers thousands of music videos; and launched Music Choice Play, the music video, lifestyle and entertainment network for Millennials. For additional information log on to http://www.MusicChoice.com | Twitter: @MusicChoice | Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MusicChoice", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Song: Forlorn Hope\nArtist/group: After Forever\nFile Name: After Forever – Forlorn Hope.gp4\nFile size: 60 kb\nFile type: .gp4\nUnlock these tabs!\nTo get free, instant access to all of our 50,000 tabs, please share our site with your friends, or wait 20 seconds. Every share helps, thanks!\nGuitar learning tips and advice:\n- Have a look at our free guitar lessons teaching you how to play basic guitar techniques through high quality video.\n- Has learning and refining your guitar techniques been difficult? Make your practice sessions fun and easy, by learning from video guitar lessons teaching popular guitar songs.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "FunkDC is a collective of DJs, artists and friends that came together to celebrate good music and good vibes in Washington DC.\nPhiladelphia radio, listening to and singing music in church, and listening to the family’s collection of east and west african mix tapes all contributed to Moose’s early exposure to music. This resulted in Moose making mix tapes of his own off the radio in the early 80′s. In 1988 he got involved with live music, playing the guitar and starting a band, which led to playing various other instruments. In 1995 Moose was introduced to turntables and various forms of electronic music and has not looked back since. mixcloud.com/danielmoose\nNeil bought turntables after hosting a college radio show. His first DJ partner, Leon (SR-70), organized a party of six DJs on two sound systems at the “House of Pain” in Mt. Pleasant, where he met KidGusto, Moose, Naka and Anton ~all friends he spun with for a few years. In addition to DJ-ing in DC, Payne was in Guatemala for a year, where he helped form the XelaGrooves DJ Collective. soundcloud.com/nbpayne | mixcloud.com/nbpayne\nSince he first began laying down percussion and trap kit rhythms in 1989, KidGusto has worked to help pioneer the DC sound through downtempo, funk, jazz, rare groove breaks and world beats. His musical path has led him to work with various talented musicians, producers and DJ’s introducing him to an eclectic array of styles and influences. In turn this has brought kg the versatility to be innovative and yet consistent while DJ’ing in and out of Washington DC, Los Angeles and abroad. As a musician, DJ, and producer, KidGusto’s mission is to create organic music that combines dancefloor-heavy beats with pure instrumental emotion. soundcloud.com/kidgusto\nThere is nothing I hate more than a self indulgent DJ bio. We are, after all, playing other people’s music, so I don’t think we are that important in the grand scheme of things. My goal as a DJ is to share the music that I love in the hopes that the crowd (big or small) will appreciate it and respond. It’s as simple as that. soundcloud.com/shizon", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ON SALE NOW\nOn Sale Sat. March 8 @ 10:00AM\nwith Kurt Vile & The Violators and Nicole Atkins\nMany events are FREE and open to the public.\nwith special guests Man Man and Dinosaur Pile-Up\nThe Mann Center for the Performing Arts, located in Philadelphia's beautiful Fairmount Park, continues its rich tradition as the Greater Philadelphia Region's premiere outdoor cultural arts center.\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nCONTACT: Christine Reimert...\nLocal media talks about the June 6th stop in Philadelphia.\nFrom The Morning Call to Philadelphia Weekly to Examiner.com, numerous sources named Mann concerts in their 2013 year-end \"Best of\" live music lists. ...\nOn Thursday, December 19, 2013, our own Rhoda A. Blount, VP of Education & Community Engagement, was honored during the inaugural “It’s Your Time” Jazz & Art Benefit....\nPhilly.com, WXPN's The Key, and The Swollen Fox cover Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' 2014 Summer Tour announcement including a July 25th stop at the Mann.\nOn behalf of the Board of Directors and administrative staff of the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, we extend our sincere condolences to the Lomax Family. Dr. Walter Lomax will be...\nPhilly.com chooses upcoming Mann concerts as choice events for the week!\nCBS Philly's Melony Roy sits down with AEG Live's Jon Hampton to discuss the September 21st, Steely Dan show at the Mann Center. Check out the interview via podcast, and be sure not to...\nMann Center for the Performing Arts | 5201 Parkside Avenue | Fairmount Park | Philadelphia PA, 19131\nExecutive Offices | 123 South Broad St. | Suite 815 | Philadelphia PA, 19109\nSite by Tabula Studio and » Message Agency", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "\"Where words fail, music speaks.\"\n- Hans Christian Andersen\nMusic Subject Leader - Mr Cooper\nAt Stamford Bridge Primary School, we aim to provide a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum and to ensure the progressive development of musical concepts, knowledge and skills. We believe that music plays an integral role in helping children to feel part of a community; therefore, we provide opportunities for all children to create, play, perform and enjoy music both in class and to an audience.\nWe wish to develop pupils who:\n- Enjoy and have an appreciation for music.\n- Listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, cultures, styles and traditions.\n- Can sing and use their voices to create different effects.\n- Create and compose music, both on their own and with others.\n- Have opportunities to learn a musical instrument.\n- Use a range of musical language.\n- Make judgements and express personal preferences about the quality and style of music.\n- Take part in performances with an awareness of audience.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Description: Jazz Music Library is a streaming audio database featuring a variety of jazz styles and artists. The collection is particularly strong in the music of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as in music of later periods that grew out of the bebop/hardbop tradition; other periods and more experimental styles are represented more schematically. Notable represented record labels include: Audiophile, Concord Jazz, Contemporary Records, Fantasy, Jazzology, Milestone, Nessa Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo, and Prestige. Content is updated monthly.\n- Host URL: http://search.alexanderstreet.com/jazz\n- Audio Resources/All\n- Music/All databases\n- Video Resources/All database\n- Vendor: Alexander Street Press\nTerms and Conditions", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "AdHoc Presents Iris Lune (Record Release)\nLip Talk, MMEADOWS\nBrooklyn, NY, 11211\nThis event is 21 and over\nIris Lune initially began as the project of singer-songwriter Ella Joy Meir when she met guitarist and composer Asher Kurtz in Boston. As their exploration and experimentation of sounds transformed into serious songwriting, they recruited Aaron Liao and Angelo Spampinato to complete their roster, and relocated to Brooklyn.\nAs influenced by Bjork as they are Salvador Dali, Iris Lune’s music is pop without boundaries. A foray into the cross-pollination of electronic and acoustic, the band builds off of Meir’s roots in Middle Eastern and Israeli folk music to craft a sound that stretches into the surreal. Their second EP, \"Lost in Chatter\" will be released this fall.\nLip Talk is a cast of stunningly talented multi-instrumentalists fronted by Sarah K. Pedinotti. SKP's vocal delivery has earned her apt comparisons to musical luminaries Bjork and Kate Bush, and the band's unique blend of experimental psych-pop has found a home with fans of Braids, The Dirty Projectors, and Massive Attack.\nElectro-pop outfit MMEADOWS is Kristin Slipp and Cole Kamen-Green. Kristin and Cole are perhaps best known for their work as part of Cuddle Magic -- a Brooklyn and Philadelphia-based chamber-pop band that Bob Boilen (of NPR’s All Songs Considered) says is one of his new favorites -- but the duo, together and separately, have also written and recorded with Beyonce, performed with Cyndi Lauper and Kimbra, and made beats with Yuka C. Honda.\nUntil 2016, with the surprise release of a refreshing, modernized rework of Sade's \"No Ordinary Love,\" Kristin and Cole managed to keep MMEADOWS [mostly] a secret, meeting late at night to chip away at a body of work. The quasi- clandestine nature and dark setting of these midnight meetings found a way into the duo’s new music through undulating low frequencies, ecstatic vocal melodies, and sizzling analog synths.\n\"Kristin Slipp’s vocal is a mesmerizing tool, reminiscent of Sylvan Esso in the way it punctuates the surrounding instrumentation; thought the track itself offers something far more restrained.\"\n- Gold Flake Paint\n\"Their deep-seeded love for heart wrenching melodies and passionate lines are evident in singer Kristin’s soul as it pours from the speaker...\"\n- All Things Go", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Paris on the Platte Cafe & Bar, Denver\nLafayette plays in denver events\nFriday, Jun 13 8:00p\nSunday, Mar 23 12:30p\nEast Boulder Senior Center, BoulderJoin Boulder Senior Services for a live performance of “Chicago: The Musical,” which has been honored with six Tony Awards and a Grammy. Price includes transportation, trip escort and performance.\nSaturday, Aug 2 3:00p\nUniversity Theatre, BoulderInspired by the book of the same title (Carl Jung), IDT's 2014 performance focuses on expression of the unconscious, both collective and individual...\nFriday, Mar 21 7:00p\nD Note, ArvadaDear friends and aficionados of Flamenco, I am dedicating this Flamenco Fantasy Theatre show at the D Note to Paco de Lucia my long time friend and brother of 41 years! who passed away February 2...\nSaturday, Mar 22 10:00a\nLafayette plays in denver Related Topics\narts & crafts | community | business & tech | dance | fairs & festivals | food & dining | music | performing arts | sports & outdoors | visual arts | other | comedy | shopping | holiday | education/campus | dinner theatre | denver friday night | april 6 in denver, co | comedy | live music | sports outdoors | cafe denver music | denver events april 2014 | the national in denver | denver community dance | craft fairs | vxxx | festivals | craft shows | 3/20 denver | the sounds denver | around the world in 180 minutes denver | dance | music theaters in denver | colorado home show\nHot Tickets More »\nON SALE NOW\nSun 6/8 12:00p\nWed 3/19 7:00p\nWed 4/16 6:30p\nThu 3/27 9:00p\nTue 5/13 8:00p\nUpcoming Holiday Events More »\nSt Patrick's Day", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Shawn Mendes Treat You Better mp3 song download\nOur Thursday throwback hit song comes from the super talented singer who is known by the stage name Shawn Mendes unleashed another incredible masterpiece track dubbed “Treat You Better“.\nHowever, with tireless recorded effort, Shawn Mendes on this throwback song Treat You Better displayed an excellent prowess to make it an outstanding song.\nYou are guaranteed to enjoy “Treat You Better” by Shawn Mendes which is also ready and available for download.\nTake a Listen below and share with friends!\n|Artist(s):||Shawn Mendes || Naijagreen.com|\n|Song Name:||Treat You Better || Naijagreen.com|\n|No. of Downloads:||730+|\n|Last Downloaded:||16min ago|\n|Audio size:||6.0 MB+|\n|Bit Rate:||320 kBit/s|", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The human voice is the most natural musical instrument. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist.\nSinging is a skill that requires highly developed muscle reflexes. Individuals can develop their voices further through the careful and systematic practice of both songs and vocal exercises. Singing does not require much muscle strength but it does require a high degree of muscle coordination.\nExcellence in singing may require time, dedication, instruction, and regular practice.\nKanami Shimanuki teaches voice and beginning to intermediate piano here at the conservatory. She started playing piano at 4 years old and later decided to pursue voice as her main instrument. She received a Bachelors of Arts degree in Ethnomusicology, Jazz studies, at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has been teaching music for a total of 5 years and is happy to be continuing her teaching career here at Santa Monica Conservatory of music.\nJasmine Daboul has been a voice/piano teacher at the Santa Monica Conservatory of Music since the summer of 2017. With her focus being on classical repertoire, she has performed various Arias and Art songs by composers such as Mozart, Scarlatti, Faure, Schubert, Barber, and many others. Her recent opera roles were Gherardina in Puccini’s (Gianni Schicchi)and chorus in Donizetti’s (IL Campanello); which were performed at the Santa Monica Broad Stage. She has performed many choruses works such as Mozart’s (Requiem), Hadel’s (Messiah), Mendelssohn’s (Elijah), including other famous works at the Plaza del Sol Performance Hall. From 2016 to 2017, she was part of the California State University’s Women’s Chorale that performed enchanting pieces by Holst, Saint Hildegard, and Graham; along with a few choral pieces from Harry Potter. They appeared at the St. Mary of the Angels Church in Los Angeles at the Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge. In the summer of 2017, Jasmine performed Mozart’s (Requiem) with the Pacific Master Chorale at Walt Disney Concert Hall.\nAlong with her knowledge in classical vocal music, she is familiar with many contemporary songs and Musicals. Some of her performances include songs by Adele, Mariah Carey, Leann Rimes, Lady Gaga, and more. Her second Language being Arabic, she has performed a variety of songs overseas for Classical Arabic singers that include Abdel Halim Hafez, Fairuz, and a few others. Jasmine also teaches beginning to intermediate piano. Some of her piano performances have been for Bach’s (Prelude in C Major), Oglivy’s (Toccatina), and Glinka’s (Russian Polka). She is currently finishing her studies at California State University, Northridge with the talented and intelligent Erica Davis.\nIndia Carney is an American singer, songwriter, arranger and actress. Born and raised in New York, India made her national television debut on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning “The Voice”. She wowed audiences and four highly acclaimed celebrity judges as the former Top 5 Artist with her passionate vocal restraint and versatile evenness of tone. MStars News reported Brooklyn native India Carney “has a voice of gold”. NY Times columnist, David Brooks, gave India rave reviews in his editorial for her version of Lady Gaga’s dance hits. India has performed for David Foster, Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, Jason Derulo, and many others. She previously appeared at NYC’s Apollo Theater, The Bitter End, California’s Jazz Night at The W, and STAPLES Center. Musical theatre credits include Jay Sheib’s Carmen (Carmen), AIDA (Aida), and A Chorus Line (Diana), just to name a few. Among India’s many awards she was named a 2011 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts and National YoungArts Winner in Voice. A distinguished graduate of UCLA, India earned her B.A. in Music -Voice Performance and minor in Music Industry. She is an alumna of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (The “Fame” School), and the Manhattan School of Music Precollege.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Kele Tickets - Great Tunes\nKele tickets are on sale at StubHub and you will want to reserve your spot at one of his upcoming shows. Kele is a well-known singer and guitarist who is part of the indie band Bloc Party. He has been on the scene since 2002 and his debut album for Bloc Party, called Silent Alarm quickly became a hit upon its release.\nKele Tickets - Don't Miss the Show!\nAre you ready to enjoy a live music show? Visit StubHub, where there are concert tickets always available for shows performed by your favorite artists and bands. The next time indie music artist Kele comes to town, make sure that you have your concert tickets in hand! Tell all of your friends and family members to join you for the fun.\nKele Tour Dates - Rock On!\nGet ready to rock on with indie musician Kele during an upcoming gig. The performer has been on the scene for several years now and is an acclaimed guitarist. Learn all of the lyrics to his many songs and sing along to the beats when he takes the stage in a city near you. Kele is one of the most popular musicians on the scene today.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Standard from xoxos is a software synthesizer that creates classic analog waveform audio. [VSTi]\nACTION! Sampler is a Plug-in VSTi sample collection and recording tool for film score writers, catering to the Action genre. [VSTi]\nPhutura is a free virtual plug-in hoover sound synthesizer based on the Alpha Juno hardware [VSTi]\nBleep' is a free software synthesizer instrument for Windows based on the sound of MOS Technology SID. [VSTi]\nSynthclone is a Qt-based software that can \"clone\" your MIDI capable instruments.\nGamma-Ray is a polyphonic synthesizer with 10 voices. [VSTi]\nCorona is a virtual wave and analog synthesizer [VSTi/AU]\nFrequency is a software synthesizer designed for rhythmic tracks. [AU]\nEuterpe is a virtual analog synthesizer. [VST/AU]\nNUKLEAR is a virtual instrument based on advanced granular pulse train synthesis that works for Mac OSX [VSTi/AU]\n|HexJam HD v1.1|\nHexJam HD is a Hayden-Wicki Jammer style concertina with hexagonal layout for the iPad.\n|JellyFilter v3.0.1|| |\nPolyphonic lead synthesizer. [VST]\nSpaceWiz is an ambient music synthesizer for the iPad, utilizing a virtual solar system as its interface.\n|TimewARP 2600 v1.4|| |\nEmulation of the classic ARP 2600 analog synthesizer. [VST/AU/RTAS]\nDiffusion is a motion waveshape synthesizer plug-in [AU]\nNUKLEAR is a virtual instrument based on advanced granular pulse train synthesis [VSTi]\nFermion is a virtual analog synthesizer for the iPad.\nAnimoog is a polyphonic software synthesizer for the iPad\n|Polyvoks Station 2.01|\nPolyvoks Station is a software synthesizer based on a soviet hardware synth called Polivoks. [VSTi]\n|Addictive microSynth v1.5|\nAddictive microSynth is a synthesizer with a 4 track loop phrase recorder.\nSynchroid is a software synthesizer with an intuitive sequencer interface that will let anyone make synth music.\n|Combo Model F 1.2.3|\nCombo Model F for Mac is a virtual organ freeware, modelled after a known organ from the 1960s. [VSTi]\nSound synthesizer based on spectral audio engineering concept.\nSoftware synthesizer for creating experimental electronic sounds as its often used in but not limited to Industrial music, IDM, EBM, Glitch, sound design and minimal electronic.\n|Sketch Synth 3D v1.1.0|\nSketch Synth 3D will allow you to sketch your songs in 3D with your Mac.\nSupersynth is a monophonic synth sequencer and drum machine for Android devices.\n|uSonic V Synth v1.3.3|\nAn emulator of the muSonic 5, a synthesizer originally designed by one of the Moog engineers Gene Zumchek.\n|deputy Mark II v1.0.3|\nThe deputy Mark II is a virtual synthesizer for Windows based on traditional string machines and polyphonic synths. [VST]\n|Addictive Synth v2.2.0|\nAddictive Synth is a virtual software synthesizer for the iPad\nQuiver is software synthesizer with a more visual interface. [VST]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Upcoming Concerts: Chicago Events Calendar\nThe city of Chicago is renowned for its vibrant music scene, attracting both local residents and tourists alike. With a plethora of musical genres to choose from, there is always something for everyone in the Windy City. This article aims to provide an overview of upcoming concerts and events in Chicago through an exploration of the diverse range of performances scheduled throughout the year.\nFor instance, one notable concert that will take place in Chicago next month is a performance by the renowned jazz musician, John Coltrane. Known for his innovative improvisational skills and contributions to the development of bebop and hard bop styles, Coltrane’s concert promises to be a mesmerizing experience for jazz enthusiasts. This event serves as just one example among many others that can be found on the Chicago Events Calendar, which showcases an array of musical acts ranging from classical symphonies to indie rock bands.\nBy delving into various upcoming concerts and events in Chicago, this article seeks to inform readers about the diverse musical offerings available within the city. It will explore how these performances contribute not only to cultural enrichment but also serve as opportunities for artists to showcase their talents while creating memorable experiences for audiences. Whether it be attending a live orchestral performance at Symphony Center or dancing along with popular musicians at a lively music festival like Lollapalooza, Chicago offers a multitude of experiences for music lovers.\nIn addition to the well-established venues and events, Chicago also boasts a thriving underground music scene. Music enthusiasts can explore smaller, intimate venues such as The Hideout or Schubas Tavern, where they can discover up-and-coming local artists across various genres like folk, indie rock, or experimental electronic music.\nMoreover, Chicago is home to several iconic music festivals that attract visitors from all over the world. For instance, the Chicago Blues Festival showcases the rich history and legacy of blues music with performances by both established blues legends and emerging talents. Similarly, the Pitchfork Music Festival highlights alternative and independent artists from diverse backgrounds.\nTo stay updated on upcoming concerts and events in Chicago, individuals can utilize various resources. Websites like Time Out Chicago or Songkick provide comprehensive listings of concerts happening in the city. Social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter are also valuable tools for discovering new shows and connecting with fellow music enthusiasts.\nOverall, whether it’s enjoying a classical symphony at Grant Park Orchestra’s outdoor summer series or catching a live performance by your favorite band at iconic venues like Metro or House of Blues, the vibrant music scene in Chicago ensures there is something for everyone’s musical taste throughout the year.\nTop 5 Must-See Concerts in Chicago\nUpcoming Concerts: Chicago Events Calendar\nTop 5 Must-See Concerts in Chicago\nChicago, known for its vibrant music scene, is set to host a series of exhilarating concerts that are not-to-be-missed. From renowned rock bands to soulful jazz performances, the city offers an array of musical genres to suit every taste. In this section, we will explore the top five must-see concerts taking place in Chicago, ensuring you don’t miss out on these unforgettable experiences.\nTo start off our list, let’s dive into one example – the highly anticipated concert by The Rolling Stones at Soldier Field. With their timeless hits and energetic stage presence, The Rolling Stones have captivated audiences worldwide for decades. This legendary band continues to deliver electrifying performances year after year, guaranteeing an extraordinary night filled with nostalgia and pure rock ‘n’ roll magic.\nNow let’s take a closer look at why these concerts stand out among others:\n- Unforgettable Performances: Each concert promises unique and memorable moments that will stay with attendees long after the final encore.\n- World-Class Artists: Renowned musicians from various genres grace the stages of Chicago’s finest venues, showcasing their exceptional talent and artistry.\n- Immersive Atmosphere: The captivating ambiance created by enthusiastic fans coming together to celebrate their shared love for music adds an extra layer of excitement to each performance.\n- Diverse Venues: Whether it be iconic arenas or intimate clubs, Chicago offers a wide range of venues that cater to different preferences and provide distinct settings for concert-goers.\nIn addition to the bullet point list above, here is a table highlighting some key details about these upcoming concerts:\n|The Rolling Stones||Soldier Field||June 21st|\n|Adele||United Center||July 15th-16th|\n|John Mayer||Wrigley Field||August 14th|\n|Bruno Mars||Grant Park||September 5th|\nAs we wrap up, it is evident that Chicago’s concert scene is brimming with excitement and anticipation. Now, let us guide you through a detailed exploration of the hottest concerts coming to Chicago, providing you with all the essential information to plan your next unforgettable music experience.\n[Transition Sentence]: Moving forward, our focus shifts towards “A Guide to the Hottest Concerts Coming to Chicago,” where we delve into the intricacies of each event, ensuring you have everything at hand to make informed decisions about attending these remarkable performances.\nA Guide to the Hottest Concerts Coming to Chicago\nUpcoming Concerts: Chicago Events Calendar\nIn the vibrant city of Chicago, music lovers are in for a treat with an array of exciting concerts scheduled throughout the year. Building on our previous exploration of the top must-see concerts in Chicago, this section will provide you with a comprehensive guide to the hottest upcoming events in the city’s bustling music scene.\nTo exemplify the variety of performances awaiting eager audiences, let us consider one anticipated concert featuring renowned artist John Mayer. Known for his soulful guitar skills and heartfelt lyrics, Mayer is set to captivate fans at the iconic United Center. This event serves as just a glimpse into the diverse range of musical experiences that await attendees in Chicago.\nHere are some noteworthy concerts taking place soon:\n“Summer Sounds Festival”: Immerse yourself in a day-long celebration of music from various genres, showcasing both local talent and internationally acclaimed artists. From energetic indie rock bands to captivating jazz ensembles, this festival promises an unforgettable experience.\n“Classical Serenade”: For those seeking a more refined evening, indulge in an enchanting classical performance by world-class orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra or Lyric Opera. Lose yourself in symphonies conducted by maestros who bring timeless compositions to life.\n“Rhythm & Rhyme Showcase”: Hip-hop enthusiasts can groove along to catchy beats and powerful lyrical storytelling during this dynamic showcase of emerging talent within the rap community. Experience firsthand how these artists use their craft to express emotions and shed light on social issues.\n“Latin Fusion Night”: Savor Latin rhythms that blend traditional melodies with contemporary influences during this vivacious night dedicated to celebrating Hispanic culture through music and dance. Explore different styles like salsa, reggaeton, and bachata while embracing the rich heritage they represent.\nEmotions run high when attending live performances; it is where memories are made and connections forged between artists and audiences alike. The following table illustrates the emotional journey one can expect when attending a concert:\n|Excitement||Anticipation of the event|\n|Euphoria||Energy from live performances|\n|Connection||Bonding with like-minded fans|\n|Inspiration||Being moved by the music|\nAs we delve into this exciting calendar of events, it becomes evident that Chicago is an epicenter for musical talent and creativity. So get ready to embark on an unforgettable summer filled with melodic harmonies, breathtaking performances, and cherished memories.\nGet Ready for an Epic Summer of Music in Chicago as we explore how these concerts will shape the city’s cultural landscape and create lasting experiences for attendees.\nGet Ready for an Epic Summer of Music in Chicago\nFrom Concerts to Cultural Experiences: A Diverse Calendar of Chicago Events\nImagine this scenario: You are a music enthusiast eagerly scanning the upcoming concerts in Chicago, hoping to catch your favorite artist live. As you browse through the events calendar, you realize that there is much more than just musical performances awaiting you in the Windy City. From theatrical shows and art exhibitions to food festivals and sporting events, Chicago offers a vibrant array of cultural experiences throughout the year.\nOne such event that demonstrates the diversity of offerings is the renowned Taste of Chicago festival. This annual culinary extravaganza showcases the city’s eclectic food scene, featuring an impressive selection of local restaurants and talented chefs. With over 70 vendors offering delectable treats ranging from deep-dish pizza to gourmet desserts, Taste of Chicago tantalizes taste buds and provides a unique opportunity for visitors to indulge in gastronomic delights.\nTo further emphasize the rich tapestry of events available in Chicago, here are some highlights worth exploring:\n- The Art Institute of Chicago hosts captivating exhibitions that showcase both historical masterpieces and contemporary works by acclaimed artists.\n- The Grant Park Music Festival presents free outdoor concerts during summer evenings at Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion, allowing audiences to enjoy classical compositions against the backdrop of stunning architecture.\n- For sports enthusiasts, catching a Cubs game at Wrigley Field or witnessing a Bulls match at United Center can create unforgettable moments steeped in team spirit and excitement.\n- Those seeking immersive theater experiences will find delight in venues like Steppenwolf Theatre Company or Broadway In Chicago theaters, where world-class productions captivate audiences with their storytelling prowess.\nAs we delve into these diverse cultural experiences within the realm of Chicago’s vibrant events calendar, it becomes evident that there is something for everyone. Whether it be satisfying your palate with delicious cuisines or immersing yourself in artistic expressions across various mediums – each event promises its own distinct charm. So, let us now venture further into the tapestry of Chicago’s vibrant live music scene, where a multitude of captivating performances awaits.\nDiscover Chicago’s Vibrant Live Music Scene\nAs the summer months approach, Chicago’s music enthusiasts eagerly anticipate the plethora of upcoming concerts and events that are set to grace the city. From renowned international artists to local talent, there is no shortage of live performances that will captivate audiences throughout the season. With a vibrant live music scene that caters to diverse tastes, Chicago continues to solidify its reputation as a hub for musical excellence.\nOne shining example of this vibrant atmosphere can be seen in the case of The Grant Park Music Festival. Taking place annually at Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion, this festival has become an iconic event on Chicago’s cultural calendar. Known for its exceptional orchestral performances, it showcases the talents of the esteemed Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus. Drawing thousands of attendees each year, both locals and visitors flock to witness these awe-inspiring outdoor performances under the starry skies.\nTo provide you with a glimpse into the incredible range of musical experiences awaiting you in Chicago this summer, here are some highlights:\n- An eclectic mix of genres: Whether your musical preferences lean towards rock, jazz, hip-hop, or classical music, Chicago’s concert lineup offers something for everyone.\n- Intimate venues: Discover hidden gems within intimate settings where you can enjoy up-and-coming artists or experience well-established musicians up close and personal.\n- Iconic locations: Immerse yourself in the rich history and architectural beauty of Chicago by attending a concert at one of its many iconic venues such as Symphony Center or House of Blues.\n- Community-focused events: Engage with fellow music lovers through neighborhood block parties or street festivals that celebrate local talent while fostering community spirit.\n- Experience an array of genres\n- Explore intimate venues\n- Revel in iconic locations\n- Connect with your community\nFurthermore, let us not forget about the numerous world-class venues across Chicago that play host to these remarkable concerts. In our next section, we will delve into the best venues that have gained renown for their exceptional acoustics, captivating atmospheres, and memorable performances. From historic theaters to cutting-edge modern spaces, these venues set the stage for unforgettable musical experiences in the heart of Chicago’s vibrant music scene.\nWith a deep understanding of Chicago’s thriving live music culture, we now turn our attention to exploring the city’s best concert venues.\nUpcoming Concerts: Chicago’s Best Venues\nWith a deep-rooted musical heritage and a thriving live music scene, Chicago is an undeniable hub for music enthusiasts. From blues and jazz to rock and hip hop, the city offers an eclectic mix of genres that cater to diverse tastes. Whether you’re a local or visiting from out of town, immersing yourself in Chicago’s vibrant live music scene promises an unforgettable experience.\nTo illustrate the richness of Chicago’s live music culture, let us consider the case of John Smith, a passionate fan of alternative rock. Upon his arrival in the Windy City, he was delighted to discover a multitude of venues catering specifically to this genre. Metro, one of Chicago’s most iconic concert halls located in Wrigleyville, has hosted renowned acts such as The Smashing Pumpkins and Arcade Fire. This venue not only provides exceptional sound quality but also fosters an intimate atmosphere, allowing fans like John to connect with their favorite artists on a deeper level.\nIf you find yourself yearning for more than just alternative rock performances, fear not – Chicago has something for everyone. To guide you through this eclectic array of options, here are some highlights:\n- Jazz lovers can indulge in mesmerizing improvisations at the legendary Green Mill Cocktail Lounge.\n- Fans of blues music can revel in authentic performances at Kingston Mines or Buddy Guy’s Legends.\n- Hip hop enthusiasts can witness groundbreaking acts at venues like Subterranean or Reggie’s Rock Club.\n- For those seeking cutting-edge electronic beats, Smartbar offers an immersive nightlife experience.\nExperience the energy firsthand:\n- Immerse yourself in the pulsating rhythms that fill every corner of these iconic venues.\n- Feel your heart race alongside fellow music lovers as you collectively surrender to the power of live performance.\n- Allow the melodies to transport you into another world where time stands still.\n- Create lasting memories as you share unforgettable moments with friends and fellow concert-goers.\nIn addition to the diverse range of venues, Chicago boasts a plethora of music festivals throughout the year. From Lollapalooza in Grant Park to Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, these events attract both established acts and emerging talents from around the globe. The city’s commitment to fostering musical talent and providing platforms for artists ensures that there is always something exciting happening in Chicago’s live music scene.\nAs you immerse yourself in the vibrant world of Chicago’s live music scene, it becomes essential to plan your perfect night out efficiently. With a comprehensive calendar showcasing upcoming concerts and performances, navigating through this melodic labyrinth will become an effortless endeavor. Explore the various genres, venues, and dates available on Chicago’s Concert Calendar to curate an unforgettable experience tailored precisely to your preferences.\nPlan Your Perfect Night Out with Chicago’s Concert Calendar\nUpcoming Concerts: Chicago Events Calendar\nTransitioning from the previous section highlighting Chicago’s best venues, let us now explore the plethora of upcoming concerts that are set to take place in this vibrant city. To illustrate, imagine a hypothetical scenario where you find yourself eagerly anticipating an unforgettable night out with friends at one of Chicago’s renowned concert halls.\nAs you begin planning your perfect evening, it is essential to be aware of the various events happening around town. The following bullet point list provides an overview of what awaits music enthusiasts in the coming months:\n- A diverse range of musical genres will be represented, including rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, and classical.\n- Acclaimed international artists as well as local talents will grace the stage.\n- Multiple venues across the city will host these concerts, ensuring accessibility for all residents and visitors alike.\n- Special themed nights or tribute performances might also be on offer to cater to specific tastes and preferences.\nTo further assist you in making informed decisions about which event to attend, we have compiled a table summarizing some notable upcoming concerts in Chicago:\n|05/10/2022||John Mayer||Pop/Rock||United Center|\n|06/15/2022||Kendrick Lamar||Hip-Hop||Grant Park|\n|07/23/2022||Chicago Symphony Orch.||Classical||Symphony Center|\nWhether you’re a fan of chart-topping hits or enjoy more refined orchestral performances, there is undoubtedly something for everyone within Chicago’s dynamic concert scene. By referring to this comprehensive calendar and considering personal preferences alongside availability, you can curate an exceptional night out that aligns perfectly with your musical taste.\nIn light of the city’s rich cultural heritage and reputation for hosting world-class events, it is no surprise that Chicago’s concert calendar remains vibrant throughout the year. So, venture out into this thriving music scene and immerse yourself in an evening filled with captivating performances, unforgettable melodies, and a shared love for live music.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Brasil Guitar Duo\nBEST BETDATE: September 26 2013, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PMCost:$35.CATEGORY: MusicVENUE INFORMATION:Lakewood Cultural Center470 S. Allison Pkwy.Denver, CO 80226\nJoão Luiz and Douglas Lora have blended Brazilian and classical guitar styles for more than 15 years together in major concert series and world music festivals around the globe. Introduced while learning guitar as teenagers, the São Paulo natives were winners of the Concert Artists Guild International Music Competition in 2006. Thu 7:30-9:30 p.m.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Competitive dancer with Westside Dance Project who was chosen to be one of the pros for Dancing with the Stars: Juniors in 2018.\nShe previously danced with Project 21.\nShe has trained and competed in styles of dance such as Lyrical, Contemporary, Jazz and Musical Theater\nShe is from Madison Heights, Michigan. Her mom's name is Christie; she has siblings named Mackenzie and Katie, the latter of which is her twin.\nHer partner on Dancing with the Stars: Juniors was Hudson West.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I’ve been playing guitar for about 15 years now and have been writing songs and little jingles ever since I can remember. As a kid I spent a lot of time with my guitar and cheesy little keyboard making up songs playing them for my parents. I do, however, believe that this has helped me write songs today. Getting your creative juices flowing at a young age really teaches you how to use your imagination and not limit yourself to one way of thinking. I love the fact that I can create something that didn’t exist last week or even yesterday and have people listen to it and enjoy it as much as I do.\nMy music stems from many artists. I enjoy all types of music from Country to Rock and Pop and some R&B and Rap. I am a huge Tom Petty fan! I like The Fray, Eminem, Cold Play, Faith Hill, Evanesence, Fuel, Staind, Rascal Flatts, Blink 182, Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox 20 and many many others.\nI am a highly motivated professional individual. I have a BS degree in business and currently work in management for a medium sized company. In college I had many mini jams sessions with my buddies but nothing ever materialized from it. I actually never even thought of music as a career at that time. The one thing that I never really stopped doing was writing songs. Sure, some of them really suck! You won't here those. But the more you write the better you get. I think what sets me apart from a lot of songwriters is that I have the ability to write up beat sing-a-long type songs with good lyrics as well as more serious deeper thinking songs. I also believe that each one of my songs has it’s own unique qualities and doesn’t sound like all of my other tracks. In my opinion not every song has to travel deep into your inner thoughts to be successful. Sometimes it's just nice to bob your head and enjoy yourself.\nI am somewhat of newbee in the music industry. (Please don't let that scare you!) My goal is to get my songs professionally recorded in a real recording studio with a seasoned producer and a great band, either with myself or with an established artist that could instantly give my songs a lot of exposure. Once that is complete, of course I'd like to see my music sold online, in stores, on the radio, TV, you name it. (WOW!). I love the whole process of creating a new piece of music and ultimately would like to make enough money to do it for a living.\nGuitars and Vocals", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rockville Civic Ballet Dances The Last Duchess\n* Additional fees apply.\nThe last date listed for The Last Duchess was Sunday August 3, 2014 / 2:00pm.\nAbout the Ticket Supplier: City of Rockville\nThe City of Rockville’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre is home to its own ballet company, chorus, band and youth orchestra. The Theatre is also home to three resident companies: Rockville Musical Theatre, Rockville Little Theatre and The Victorian Lyric Opera Company. In addition, Rockville offers annual events, farmers markets, parks, nature center and more to choose from throughout the year.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "About: Pawn Shop Saints from Adams, Massachusetts\nPlaying their self-described \"New England Americana\" that has a harder feel and less of a bluegrass influence than most Americana genres. With a new batch of dozens of new songs, PSS began performing and recording in June 2010.\nAfter working on solo projects the past decade, the two reunited in March of 2010 to form Pawn Shop Saints, an Americana folk group centered around the award winning songwriting of Barry and O'Neill.\nBarry has written over 3000 songs in his career and has had over 10,000 downloads and listens from his solo efforts. O’Neil is a multi- instrumentalist, songwriter, and studio owner.\nThe result is a sparse, melodic, acoustic sound not often heard in the contemporary Americana genre.\nAll recording were done live in Mike’s basement studio with little or no overdub. Often the songs are recorded live with two microphones, usually in one take, and they include mistakes and all are included.\nNo computers, Pro Tools, or Auto tuners are used, nor will they ever be. What you hear is a realness often missing from so many current artists.\"\n1). Do you have a phobia? If yes - what?\nI have no phobias at all, and no one else in the group has any obvious ones. We do dislike many things, like songs with drums mixed up too high, bad beer, and crappy PA’s\n2). If you wouldn't have become an artist, what would you be?\nA factory worker….if I could ever find a job in the U.S. today doing that type of work.\n3). What is your \"formula for success\"?\nKeep it sparse and simple, and write songs that a catchy, yet direct. We also focus on not overplaying a song. We don’t need to show off our musical skills, or promote our lack of such. It’s about the emptiness in the music.\nWe also try to keep the songs bare boned. All are acoustic based, sparse, and as simple as possible. It’s easy to cover up a poorly written songs with piled on instruments and overdubs, but good songs are those that you can play on an acoustic and they still that ‘smack you in the face’ effect.\n4). If you had a chance to perform a live concert in any of these 3 countries: India, Congo, Iraq - what would it be and why?\nIraq….they have great instruments such as the oud, and their use of empty space in traditional Iraqi music is awesome, as s their compositional aspects. Modern Iraqi pop is not as inspiring.\n5). If you started a social networking project/website, what would you call it?\nWhoCares.com…for all the people who don’t care what you had for lunch again today.\nListen to: Pawn Shop Saints - Coal Miner's Love Song", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The world lost Fleetwood Mac’s Christie McVie last week at the age of 79 and coincidentally an auction of her belongs was just a few days later, this weekend.\nAccording to the auction house, McVie’s maxi dress, which she wore on the back cover of Fleetwood Mac’s biggest album, Rumours, sold for $56,250 — five times its original estimate of $10,000.\nA dress she wore to the 1976 Rock Music Awards went for $31,250, while her two American Music Awards dresses from 1978 went for $16,000 and $12,800. Her piano accordion, which she used to perform “Tusk” live onstage, sold for just over $11,500.\nItems from John McVie and Mick Fleetwood were sold, as well. John’s custom fretless bass guitar, which he used to record the classic song “The Chain” and played live onstage from 1976 to 1980, sold for $100,000.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "When I decided that I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, I wasn't sure where to start –- so I turned, as I always do, to my trusty iPad.\nI'm not the most spontaneous person in the world – my wife and kids would say that is a huge understatement. I am a bit programmed and disciplined and really work on \"trying new things.\"\nSo, in my disciplined way, I decided that at 48 years of age, it was time for a mid-life crisis. Since I'm not terribly spontaneous, I have an amazing, beautiful wife and six great kids, my mid-life crisis needed to be something out of the norm.\nI thought about getting a motorcycle, but my family seems to think I lack the proper coordination and that it might end very badly for me if I tried that. Then it dawned on me – what I wanted to learn how to do was play the guitar. I have been playing the piano since I was about six, I knew music theory and I played in bands in high school; but what I really wanted to do was learn the guitar.\nI found my goal, and set upon my journey with iPad 2 in hand to start my adventure. The first thing I needed to do was buy a guitar. I fired up my eBay app to see if I could get a good used one. When nothing jumped out at me, I launched the PriceGrabber app and looked for a guitar that got a great write up in Guitarist Magazine that I had just read using iOS 5's Newsstand.\nPriceGrabber - Free - Download Now\nI ordered my new guitar and started looking for apps to teach me how to use it. I was very surprised that when I did a search for \"Guitar\" in the App Store, I found over 800 iPad apps and close to 2000 iPhone apps. Where to start? I narrowed my search to \"Beginner Guitar\" to narrow the field a bit. Pay dirt!\nBeginner Guitar Songs - Free - Download now\nI found Beginner Guitar Songs from GuitarJamz.com. Marty Schwartz, who is an amazing guitar teacher, showed me how to hold the guitar, how to hold the pick, basic strumming patterns and then introduced easy chords to learn. I quickly progressed through the Beginner Lesson Series and advanced to Important Guitar Chords. After an afternoon, I could play an E minor, A major, D major, G major, E major, A minor and C major chords –not bad for the first day.\nThe next morning of my first weekend with a guitar, I fired up the Beginner Guitar app again and went through the Strumming Patterns and tried to learn some songs from the Easy Guitar Songs section. This was so much fun and I could really see some progress.\nOne thing that Marty did mention in the lessons was keeping your guitar in tune. I had forgotten about that. I touched base with some musician friends and read up on line. It seems that the \"purists\" like to use a tuning fork, the \"realists\" like to use an analog chromatic tuner and the \"techies\" like the digital chromatic tuner. I just couldn't see dropping close to a hundred bucks on a tuner when I knew there must be \"…an app for that.\" Back to the App Store – this time searching for Guitar Tuner. I came across many options, but I settled on Cleartune Chromatic Tuner. For $3.99, I figured it would be worth a shot and it is great. Play a note on the guitar and the \"analog looking\" dial shows you how far off from the actual note you are. I just tuned my strings and kept plucking and tuning until the guitar was in perfect tune.\n$3.99 - Cleartune Chromatic Tuner - Download now\nNow I was ready to learn more chords – I had about seven under my belt and I wanted more. I found the Howcast Guitar Lessons app and found over 140 video lessons – mostly chords and progressions. I spend the better part of the day learning more chords. I continued each day; adding a new chord and then reviewing the ones I had learned. By the end of the first week I had about 10 chords I was comfortable with. By the end of the second week, I had about fifteen I could remember and play. The Howcast app also taught me how to play scales and I learned the Pentatonic scales and the Blues scale and felt like I was ready to dive into some music.\n$1.99 - Guitar Lessons from Howcast - Download now\nI so enjoyed the GuitarJamz app that I looked for more stuff from Marty Schwartz and found Blues Licks, Solo Guitar and 100 Lessons and I downloaded all those apps. I then saw that in addition to the apps and the website, Marty had hundreds of lessons for free on his YouTube channel. I watched, learned and experimented to see what I could do. I had to remember, I was only a little over two weeks into my new hobby.\nWhat I learned was that some of my favorite classic rock songs were pretty easy. America's \"Horse With No Name\" – two chords. The Beatles' \"Let it Be\" – four chords. Cat Stevens' \"Peace Train\" – four chords. I could do this.\nOver the next few weeks – and now after about four months – I have been watching YouTube videos, using the Chromatic Tuner app and downloading guitar sheet music via the Songsterr Plus app. The guitar learning apps showed me how to read guitar tablature and chord diagrams – so I can do that as well.\n$9.99 - Songsterr Plus - Download now\nAs I write this, I have just learned the guitar solo to Pink Floyd's \"Wish You Were Here\" – something I never envisioned I would be doing four months into learning how to play the guitar. Now, I still need lots of work and I'm sure my technique needs improving. Thanks to a Valentine's present for my first \"in-person\" guitar lesson, I hope to work on those things and more. However, the reality is that I really did learn how to play the guitar using my iPad.\nHave you learned how to do something new using your iPad? Let us know by posting a comment below or joining this discussion thread in our forums.\nMaster your iPhone in minutes\niMore offers spot-on advice and guidance from our team of experts, with decades of Apple device experience to lean on. Learn more with iMore!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "There are certain songs that never fail to take me back to my highschool days. From 28 years down the road, those were truly golden days; filled with friends and football, baseball and beach trips. Boston's eponymous first album is probably the best at taking me back. When I listen to it, from the first, quiet strains of \"More Than a Feeling\" to the last beat of \"Let Me Take You Home Tonight,\" I'm 17 again and the future is still wide open and the sun never sets over the Florida beaches.\nThose are all the things that went through my mind this morning when I heard that Brad Delp had died.\nTo me, Delp's voice is the sound of the late-seventies when I was in highschool; Boston was the soundtrack to so many great times. I've owned that first album in four different formats and right now it's playing over my computer speakers from my iPod. I imagine that whatever the next big music format is, I'll get Boston then, too.\nDelp will be missed by many, but the music and the words of Boston will always make me feel 17.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "GUILDFORD ARTS CONSORTIUM\nGuildford Arts, Jellytree Video Arts, Guildford College, Guildford Borough Council, University of Surrey\nMichael Heyland, Festival Director, Disraeli Mews, 137B Putney High Street, London SW15 1SU\nPRESS RELEASE 21 8 00\nImagine a finale which unites the world-class talent of Procol Harum, re-grouping after many years, and the classical virtuosity of Covent Garden stars, Ann Murray & Jeremy Ovenden, a high-flying young orchestra, The New London Sinfonia, and two renowned choirs, Guildford Choral Society and the Occam Singers. Procol will be playing with the orchestra the repertoire which raised the Barbican roof when they performed there with the London Symphony Orchestra in the mid-90s – as well as some of their most famous songs. The eclecticism of the programme symbolises the nature of Guildford’s first major arts festival which showcases a broad and beautiful swathe of the arts.\nIf entertainment is what you want on Sunday 17 September, there will be something for everyone from 11am 'til late on the grassy slopes of Stoke Park, Guildford. Exciting young bands including Family Fandango, Fish Belly White, Grand Western, Crush and Mindwire will play on the Concert stage. They will give way to Sonny Black and the Dukes popular jazz band and Surrey Mozart Players’ second performance of their Jonathan Willcocks commission. The Ambient Lounge and Pineapple Tribe Carnival will share an all-day dance/chill-out zone. On the Electric stage, a feast of drama will alternate with poetry, song & innovative dance productions from University of Surrey’s Campusdance, Stagecoach Theatre Arts and others. For the finale on this stage, Sean McNamara and his professional troupe present a selection from West End musicals.\nEminent painters, Leslie Worth and Jane Taylor will join talented, local painters and sculptors in the Art Live! Tent, to demonstrate their art, talk to admirers and sell their work on display. The (free) Movie Marquee will show excerpts from popular films including Gone with the Wind, Mission Impossible, Spaghetti westerns, sci-fi as well as some short films celebrating Guildford town. In the Digizone, everyone can try their hand with new digital technology, with special emphasis on how it can be harnassed to create new art. The Chromazone area will encourage children to act \"live\" against \"virtual\" fun backgrounds.\nFor general entertaiment, there are craft & food stalls, bars, a funfair and other children’s entertainments. This arts project is supported by a grant from the Millennium Festival Fund and by many local sponsors.\nAll-day Tickets (come and go) cost £12 (£15 on the day), £25 family tickets, £10 concessions\nAvailable from Guildford Civic Hall tel 01483 444555 or Guildford Tourist Information Centre 01483 444334. Enquiries to tel 01483 569490.\nFrom Carol Leighton 22 August 2000\ninternet info contacts : www.guildford-arts.org.uk , www.procolharum.com\nWord document of this text", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Temper Trap's \"Love Lost (Last.fm Discover Session)\"\nAustralian indie rockers The Temper Trap made a huge buzz with their hit single \"Sweet Disposition\" back in 2009/10. Hey, the song is still loved to this day: remember how it was featured in the movie (500) Days Of Summer? Guaranteed that song is on everybody's iPod. The guys of TTT sat down with Last.fm for their Discover Session series and recorded a live version of their song \"Love Lost\", which is a beautiful acoustic version of the song that really highlights lead singer Dougy Mandagi's vocals.\nLet us know what you think of the band's ballad about a troubled relationship!\n- Check Out This Awesome Lyric Art for My Morning Jacket's New Single\n- You're Gonna Really Like Carly Rae Jepsen's New Single!\n- Even Taylor Swift Can Get Down With Kanye's \"All Day\"\n- Here's Why 'Uptown Funk' Is the World's Biggest Pop Song Right Now\n- Christina Aguilera's Impression of Britney Spears Is Perfect\n- This Mash-Up of Jay Z and Ed Sheeran Is Absolutely Everything\n- Ed Sheeran Puts His Spin On A...Christina Aguilera Classic?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "entertainment news and mp3 download\nentertainment news and mp3 downloads\nFrank Edwards Miracle Rain : Just a few weeks after the release of critically acclaimed single Wetin You No Fit Do (What Can’t You Do)?, Frank Edwards premieres the highly anticipated song of prophecy titled Miracle Rain.\nYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *\nNotify me of follow-up comments by email.\nNotify me of new posts by email.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Get ready for Hangout Music Festival, all the way live. Hangout Music Festival is playing this year in many cities . Buy premium Hangout Music Festival tickets and experience the thrill of a live concert with Hangout Music Festival at affordable prices.\nFusebox Kickoff: Mother Falcon at Seaholm [Show Preview]\nVosibox, the annual Festival of contemporary art and performance, due to its seventh year. Last year they started with a spectacular performance at the paramount Theatre moriiama Keiji-watch breathtaking with one dancer and one violinist. April 2011\nBP to spend $16M to promote Ala. tourism\nFOX10BP TV loyal to spend 16 dollars to boost tourismBizjournals.com Ala ... Will be used to promote tourism through advertisements for concerts, and collected tickets to attractions and sporting events. Most funds will promote events in mobile Baldwin County, such as the concert series \"Wharf\" and \"BP Festival.More music hangout\" bonus money go to concerts, other events of Alabama Kosti 53 riboblikal articles». April 2011\nFood for mind, body and soul\nHangout Beach Music and Arts Festival is dedicated solely to developing the world's hottest musical acts to the Gulf Coast, but also to help the less fortunate. This year the Festival organizers will join forces with. April 2011\nVanessa Hudgen`s Style: Spotted at Coachella 2011 Wearing Orange Crop Top\nNot only time to get experimental with your style also holiday season. The holiday season in full swing with really got Americans Festival music as ashila. A place where music lovers get together for three days. April 2011\nTourism officials bank on return customers after oil disaster\nOne axis for bringing peoples closer to the coast of Alabama is the hangout Music Festival \", held from 20 to 22 May. The Festival, in its second year, puts goers right on the sand, literally feet of water for three days of music characterized by label. April 2011\nHangout Music Festival - 3 Day Pass tickets in\nGulf Shores Beach on\nFriday May 15, 2015.\nHangout Music Festival tour 2014 - See it Before it's sold out!\nA lot of fans got angry because of the lack of concerts tickets taking in consideration for Hangout Music Festival tour 2014 concerts hosted in Gulf Shores; in contrast others only hate overpriced tickets of Gulf Shores Beach cheap tickets concerts. We notify you! If you most of the time attend Hangout Music Festival concert concerts, you'll become pleasingly addicted to this musician's music and you'll most of the time seek concerts dates to make hold of discounted tickets; yet, when tickets are sold out particularly in Gulf Shores where the great number of admirers exist, you won't definitely like it. This website is not associated with any Hangout Music Festival tour 2014 fan organization, but we are considered an online marketplace that endeavors to simplify your access to discounted tickets taking in consideration for most important cheap tickets concerts hosted in Gulf Shores Beach.\nHangout Music Festival tickets 2014 - Get Your Tickets Today!\nThe large number of admirers that have authentic desire for concerts considering Hangout Music Festival expected shows that take place in Gulf Shores or elsewhere nationwide, and all the time attempt to go to them all, are those who travel around the web seeking cheap tickets aiming to save few cents. If you look forward to be satisfied of the shows you go to, you should reserve premium seats; yet, if lawn seats are what you look forward to find, they are accessible considering for Hangout Music Festival concert major 2014 concerts hosted in Gulf Shores Beach. You can't just dream of getting cheap concerts tickets, but it becomes a reality; and all you are to do is to survey the calendar of live events and choose your cheap tickets considering for the main shows hosted in Gulf Shores Beach or any location nationwide.\nHangout Music Festival concert 2014 - Enjoy Yourself!\nWe have good news for Hangout Music Festival concert fans, the hottest concerts take place not only in Gulf Shores Beach but in a lot of cities all over US taking in consideration in Gulf Shores; though, if other cheap tickets concert tickets is what you are hunting for, then you have arrived to the right place where to obtain them. As an online ticket market that has the specialty of tickets supply, about for all concerts, we encourage concert lovers anywhere they locate around Alabama and whatever concerts they like to be on time to, taking in consideration Hangout Music Festival; to come back in any occasion to obtain their tickets here as we provide them at cheap prices. That's right! TicketsInventory.com is not the only ticket market online that provides Hangout Music Festival tickets or Hangout Music Festival tickets taking in consideration for concerts that appear in Alabama, but what's special with us is the cheap prices we make available.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mixing & Mastering Engineers who worked with Iron Fire ( danish power metal band )\n- Genre arrow_drop_down\n- Profile name arrow_drop_down\nSearch by profile nameclearsearch\n- Recommended arrow_drop_down\nSR Media Group is formed by S Raheemani in 2003 in Toronto, Canada. Been in Music since early childhood and Lived in USA for about 18 years and worked as a Live Sound Engineer and Producer. Has more then 25 Years of Music Experience. Check out the Website Link below to Review SR Music.\n31 years old professional guitarist and vocalist. I've been playing and studying music since 1994 and attended Berklee College Of Music in the summer of 2000. I have accumulated an extensive amount of experience in the music business. Would love to participate in your project!\nHi! I am a music producer, mixing and mastering engineer located in Norway. Been producing and mixing music for 10+ years on a professional level, working with both indie and major artists/labels. Currently signed to a major label in Norway as an artist.\nTo make our dreams become reality we need to calm our energy/ Freedom starts for them who see that deeds evolve the better me/ Greed involves the jealousy so keep the love and empathy/ Bleed and block your enemies but heal in front of family/\nI am a drummer from the Dallas/Fort Worth area in Texas. I am a perfectionist with over 15 years' experience recording and touring. I am a pocket drummer with chops. Tracks will be deep pocket with musically tasteful fills. My performances have a recognizable unique style and I promise you will hire me again. Live video at andrewkpederson.com\nI'm a guitarist/bassist, drummer and vocalist based in Chester.,,I picked up the guitar at the age of 13, and have been playing in bands ever since. I tend towards funk and rock stylings; like interesting chords and time signatures.,,I'm looking for a band to write original music with, as well as potentially setup a lucrative function band.\n\"Matty was recommended to me and it was the best thing getting in touch with him. He has rare qualities - an amazing musican, producer, sound engineer, intuitive, responsive, interpretative and understanding. I cannot ...\"\n\"Lonny is an amazing guitarist. His musical skills and passion brought my song to a whole different dimension. Working with Lonny was easy, he understood what I was looking for and nailed It !!!!!!!!!! Lonny will be do...\"\n\"highly recommended. very skilled, creative, and good attention to detail. quick turnaround. professional. \"\n\"I got a great mix from David. He knows how to make your song have a great sound and quality. You should try his services, you won't regret. \"\n\"Masters sound great, very professional work.\"\n\"fast & TOP Quality ...great intuition.!!! \"\n\"Thank you for the patience and professionalism you exhibited while mixing and mastering my songs...Juan is a great mix-master who put the time and effort in to please his clients...Give him a try, he is excellent...\"\n\"I would definitely recommend Maor mixing and mastering services. He made for us a very well balanced mix, and mastered our tracks to perfection. He understood our directions fast, showed to be passionate about his wor...\"\n\"Excellent - did as asked. Recommended\"\n\"We have a very good experience with Long Range Mastering. They help us a lot in our sound and our general sound image. They have real understanding of the sound picture and we have a full comfort when collaborate. ...\"\n\"If you are looking for professional MIX and MASTERING Koen Heldens will do it the best. \"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In her typically thoughtful column in Wired, Jennifer Granick makes a surprisingly inaccurate statement: \"I had just read an article in The New York Times reporting that the Recording Industry Association of America was threatening to sue websites that publish guitar music tablature, or tabs, alleging copyright infringement.\" What's Next, Ramen Noodles?\nIt's not the RIAA that is threatening to sue guitar tab web sites. It's the NMPA, the National Music Publishers Association. Granick is not the first writer to make this error-- and it's not entirely inaccurate. There is definitely a large overlap between the NMPA and RIAA constituencies, especially because of consolidation. For example, Warner Music Group is the parent company of music publisher Warner Chapell and the Warner Brothers, Atlantic and Elektra music labels.\nThe RIAA is not force behind all anti-sharing actions concerning the internet. Only those concerning recorded music. Traditionally, the record labels and publishers are at odds with each other, since each are competing for slices of the music revenue pie.\nNY Times: Now the Music Industry Wants Guitarists to Stop Sharing: \"In the last few months, trade groups representing music publishers have used the threat of copyright lawsuits to shut down guitar tablature sites, where users exchange tips on how to play songs like “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” “Highway to Hell” and thousands of others.\"\nThis all sounds very familiar. Joe Gratz (before leaving on a triparoundtheworld) dug up this Times article from 1996: Tablature Erasa: Guitar Archive Closed by Lawyers: \"The University of Nevada at Las Vegas permanently pulled the plug on the central OLGA site on April 25, after suspending it in early February to review assertions by EMI Music Publishing that some of the tablatures electronically available there were an unlicensed usage of the company's songs.\"\nMost guitar tabs are cheat sheets that let musicians know what chord changes form the underlying basis for a song. Sometimes the tabs include graphical instructions on how to play certain melodies on the guitar (but not actual notation.) Tab is incredibly frustrating to read if you know how to read music, because it is an awful medium for conveying rhythm. It is, however, an eminently useful medium for learning guitarists, as it provides more direction on how to play the song than sheet music alone.\nWhereas sheet music contains precise notations of the melody of a piece of music, guitar tab contains either a bare sketch of the underlying chord changes or directions on what notes constitute the melody. It is generally possible to play a song based on the sheet music. It is incredibly difficult to recreate the song from even the most detailed guitar tab without listening to a recording of that song.\nGuitar tab sites provide a way for community members to help each other figure out how to play songs. They are similar to fake books and the Real Book, which jazz musicians use to learn the standards. (The original Real Book circulated from Berklee College of Music in the 1970s and a licensed version was first released by Hal Leonard last year.) Penn State's Barry Kernfeld writes about Pop Song Piracy, Fake Books, and a Pre-History of Sampling.\nEven though guitar tab sites offer reconstructions of songs, rather than copies, guitar tab generally does substitute for sheet music. While not a perfect substitute, for most rock and pop musicians, unlicensed tab is an acceptable substitute for sheet music.\nDo guitar tab sites recast the original songs in a new light by simplifying the songs to their barest essence? Are tabs transformative?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Full details at http://theatre.cah.ucf.edu/auditions-danceminor.php\nYou must be a fully-registered UCF student with a declared major in order to audition. The Dance Minor Program is not structured for students who have had no dance training. We are looking for dancers who can demonstrate dance technique skills at the intermediate to advanced level.\nAudition registration will begin at 9:00 a.m. You will be asked to complete a department information form at check-in. Please allow enough time to complete this form so you are ready to dance at 9:30 a.m.\nAny student not ready to dance fully by 9:30 a.m. will NOT be seen for this audition. You must be on time, registered, and have received a dance number in order to participate.\nDancers will be asked to complete ballet, jazz, and tap is optional in additional to any other dance skills for evaluation of skill level. All dancers should be warmed-up and ready to dance at 9:30 a.m. SHARP!\nPlease bring to the audition:\nStudents selected into the Dance Minor Program will be required to meet with Judi F. Siegfried, Program Coordinator, to complete their minor declaration form and course advising for Spring 2018.\nFor more information about the Dance Minor Program Auditions, contact Judi F. Siegfried at firstname.lastname@example.org.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "January 1, 2020 @ 7:00 pm\nThis show has been cancelled due to COVID\nLuba and the band will be Live!\nLuba’s Big Top Ramble\nA night of freewheelin’ Americana music where ya never know what’s gonna happen.\nOpen at 9PM – Showtime 10PM\nAdd to Calendar", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SCHUBERT Winterreise, D 911\nDuration: 70 mins, no interval\nIn partnership with The Manchester Chamber Concerts Society\nThe first chamber concert of 2022 promises to be a good one, with baritone Marcus Farnsworth performing alongside pianist Martin Roscoe.\nMarcus was awarded first prize in the 2009 Wigmore Hall International Song Competition and the Song Prize at the 2011 Kathleen Ferrier Competition. A strong supporter of contemporary composers, he has sung works by John Tavener, Sally Beamish, Thomas Larcher, Peter Maxwell Davies and David Sawer.\nMartin Roscoe is an English classical pianist. During his illustrious career, Martin has become one of the UK’s most loved and respected pianists. With his extensive repertoire, consummate musicianship and immediate connection with audiences, he is in great demand as a concerto soloist, chamber musician and recitalist. Martin is also the Artistic Director of The Manchester Chamber Concerts Society.\nMarcus and Martin will perform Schubert’s Winter Journey, a cycle of 24 songs for voice and piano based on poems by Wilhelm Müller.\nFollowing the performance there will be a live Q&A with Marcus and Martin.\nFounded in 1936, this is The Manchester Chamber Concerts Society’s 85th season in Manchester and the first full season to be based at The Stoller Hall. Explore the full season here.\nWe’re looking forward to welcoming you back to The Stoller Hall and have a range of safety measures in place. You can explore our See it Safely measures here.\nNo upcoming events\nPart of our Sounds of Nature programme Winner of the 2021 Parkhouse Award, Trio Bohémo, from the Czech Republic, built on their...\nMore than 2000 ships have foundered and sunk on the Goodwin Sands, a perilous 10-mile sandbar that lies six miles...\n‘This is what nourishes the soul’ – The Times on Steven Isserlis Starting this Autumn, we’re delighted to welcome back...\nManchester Proud Chorus (formerly Manchester Lesbian and Gay Chorus – MLGC) will be raising their voices to celebrate the energy,...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I need u to be able to play good on hard/expert on ps3. (guitar)\nadd my psn: killenlinus21\nI like to think that i'm pretty good. Add me sometime and find out. My psn is X-Demonopoly I have Gh3, Smash Hits, Van halen, Warriors of Rock, and World Tour. Looking forward to playing sometime.\ni think im good, kinda. i play on hard and i have gh3, warriors of rock and world tour.\nadd me; xIdioSyncratiic\ni'm rather good, i play expert/+ on all instruments. i have gh3, world tour, metallica, van halen & WoR", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As the last few notes of our first dance faded away, I started to turn and make my way off the dance floor for the Mother-Son dance, but Mr. Meerkat stopped me. Then I heard the beginning of a song my dad use to play for me as a little girl.\nThe song is called Daddy’s Girl and it was our song. The one where when you hear it playing, you look at each other and smile.\nSo for a minute I just stood there staring at Mr. Meerkat. I didn’t understand what was going on. Then it slowly came to me. Mr. Meerkat was giving me the Father-Daughter dance I never thought I would be able to have.\nAfter losing my dad to cancer, being able to have a Father-Daughter dance to our song wasn’t an option. It was one of the hardest things to come to terms with while we were planning.\nI can remember Mr. Meerkat pulling me into his arms and whispering in my ear:\nI would give anything for your dad to be here but since he can’t I was hoping you wouldn’t mind if I filled in for him.\nI held on so very tightly to Mr. Meerkat as we danced. And I cried—a lot. So did our family and friends. But it was the good kind of cry that reminds us of how much we are loved.\nEven though I was crying, I was still pretty much holding it together until I heard this part of the song:\nI recall the day that your young man come to call.\nSeems like only yesterday, you swam and played football.\nBut I know the time has come, that I must set you free.\nBut no matter where you are, you know what you are to me.\nOnce I heard that I couldn’t dance anymore. It was just too hard. I told Mr. Meerkat how much it meant to me to have my Father-Daughter dance but that I wanted to get back to the celebrating.\nHe simply smiled and nodded at me in this way that said he understood. So he took my hand and escorted me off the dance floor.\nEven though it was hard at the time, I am so glad that I got to have my Father-Daughter dance.\nUp Next: Dancing With Our Moms\nDays Before Wedding\n- We Arrive In Mexico\n- Out Of Town Bags\n- Fun In Mexico\n- Our Best Man Goes Missing\n- A Dress Fiasco and Rehearsal Dinner\n- Our Fairy Godmothers (aka Getting Ready)\n- Time To Put The Dress On\n- The Guys Get Ready\n- The Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue I Didn’t Plan\n- Just A Few Pictures With My Girls\n- Get Me To The Beach\n- A Gift For Mr. Meerkat\n- A Beach Processional\n- Our Love Story Ceremony\n- Our Sand Ceremony\n- Vows, Rings and Hands\n- Ceremony Conclusion\nCocktail Hour and Portraits\n- Hugs, Kisses and Congratulations\n- Mix and Mingle – Our Cocktail Hour\n- “Tell Us A Story” Guestbook\n- Family and Bridal Party Portraits\n- Bride and Groom Portraits Part 1 & Part 2", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Antique Upright Pianos\nHealth Food Store\nIndian Clothing & Fabric\nInflatable Snow Globes\nSurvival Gear and Kits\nTT Scale Trains\nUsed Airstream Trailers\nVenus Fly Trap\nVintage Mickey Mouse\nWhen and How Will the World End Piano Steinway Pianos upright How to Beat Depression\nEarly piano replica by the modern builder Paul McNulty, after Walter & Sohn, 1805\nThe antique upright piano can be a nice musical instrument to bring in your home. Most vintage pianos are built very well and some have beautiful ornate designs on the wood fronts. Some basic precautions need to be taken when looking for the antique piano. The cost of repairs needs to fit in your budget. So if your budget is tight you probably should stay away from a piano that has rusty strings and a cracked soundboard. However if the beauty of the piano outweighs the repair costs then go ahead and buy any beautiful piano you find.\nSome antique Pianos had shapes that are no longer used. For example the square piano, which had horizontal strings placed diagonally above the hammers. The keyboard was on the side. These pianos were popular because of their cheap prices but the quality wasn't as good because of the closely placed strings and simple internal action.\nTo get the best tones from your piano choose the tallest you can find. The short spinet piano may fit nicely in your home but the tone really suffers and they are a headache for your piano tuner to tune and fix. The really tall upright is like a grand piano turned upright and the tone may be similar.\nOn this page you will find many upright pianos for sale including the Bechstein Upright, books on how to play the piano, old upright piano, learn piano, lessons, bench, instruction, lesson, chords, sheet music, player piano, Schimmel, Steinway, Wellington and more. Price guide, Values, Prices, Repair, Restoration. Schomacker, Sweetland, Schimmel, Mathushek, Steinway and more.\nMore Upright Pianos, Antique Too\n|Antique Upright Pianos (all models)||000|\nAffiliate links from EPN\nMore Antique Upright Piano Products\nAntique Upright Piano Price Guides\nAntique Upright Piano Repair\nAntique Upright Piano Restoration\nAntique Upright Player Pianos\nPlayer Piano Rolls\nUpright Pianos for Sale\nDear Antique Upright Piano Fans,\nI am writing to you in behalf of your Heavenly Father. He is seeking you like a lost sheep. You remember the Bible story? It is about a shepherd who has 100 sheep. But when he brings the sheep home one night, one is missing. He then leaves the 99 sheep and goes out into the wilderness until he finds that lost sheep.\nIn this parable the shepherd goes out to search for the one lost sheep-the very least that can be numbered. So if there had been but one lost soul, Christ would have died for that one. To read more click Lost Sheep", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The 10th Bogányi piano was presented in the ceremony hall of the Deutsches Museum in Munich on Tuesday.\nWorld renowned Hungarian pianist, Gergely Bogányi had a burning desire to add a new beauty to the way the piano looks and sounds, so he introduced modern innovation to the last 200 years of almost unchanged piano tradition. The result is a new dimension of sound and design in the Bogányi piano models.\nThe unique musical instrument arrived at its new home, one of Germany's most visited museums, as part of a concert by Kossuth Prize-winning artist Gerely Bogányi.\n“It is a great pleasure that the tenth state-owned Bogányi piano will be located in Munich, since Hungary is having very serious cultural relations with Bavaria,\" said Péter Fekte, State Secretary for Culture.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Live Stream Meets Produced EDM Hotness: Tomorrowland\nWhat is that Disneyland-meets-EDM-festival that has over 43 million hits you just saw? It's called Tomorrowland, and if you can't afford a ticket there's a new way to experience the fantasy-themed Belgian electronic dance music (EDM) festival.\nBillboard reports Tomorrowland is joining forces with YouTube to create Tomorrowland TV, Billboard.biz has learned. The first-of-its-kind live-stream-meets-produced-program will run globally on YouTube throughout the event's three days, July 27-29, and remain available thereafter.\n\"The time is right,\" says Patrick Walker, Senior Director of YouTube Music, Europe, Middle East & Africa. \"TV is underserving music, particularly EDM. Online and YouTube have become the premiere destinations for the consumption of music videos. All of these things together, plus a dream artist line-up, made this seem like a very natural partnership.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Huge song lists, zero commercials and DJs who actually love music. You can hear mostly music from the 70s/80s but also tunes from the 40s/50s/60s/90s and current as well here, retro news/ads not for marketing′s sake but because they′re sentimentally adorable. We even play a classical, jazz, country song here and there and always play what others never play.\nListened: 28 since 22.01.2018 | ~ 1 a week.\nClick here to find out what is playing now.\nStopped playing? Can't start? Click here to restart!\nSwitch off: cancel stream, clear buffer.\nNot playing? Please report us!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If you had to develop a formula for a musical act, what would you include? Good singers? Check. Great players? Definitely. Guest vocalists? Sure, why not. Songs about dinosaurs, spies and going to jail, with a disco beat? Huh? Well, Was (Not Was), the Detroit-based creation of David Weiss and Don Fagenson (now better known as uber-producer Don Was), did just that. Their unique formula had its doubters, but once all the parts came together, the results were amazing. Even with such singers as Sir Harry Bowen and Sweet Pea Atkinson in the band, the Was \"brothers\" spiced things up by inviting musical luminaries into their strange world, including Leonard Cohen, Ozzy Osbourne, Mel Tormé and recently deceased Doug Fieger of the Knack. Loaded with dance beats, humor and absurd but powerful collaborations, Was (Not Was) never let the quality of the music or the sheer talent of the participants get overshadowed. 5 out of 5 stars.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tell us what you need so we can bring you the right pros.\nReceive quotes from pros who meet your needs.\nCompare quotes, message pros, and hire when ready.\nBrowse these piano tuners with great ratings from Thumbtack customers in West Chester.\nI had a great experience with GR Horst Piano Tuner. He was very prompt. My piano was an older piano that i got from someone else. It was not tuned for quite some time. He stayed for a while to get it tuned just right and also fixed my broke piano pedal for no additional cost. I will use him again for my next piano tuning.\nJudith Palmer is a master piano tuner. It was such a pleasure to have her tune my very old and special piano. She truly has a gift, and her extensive knowledge is impressive. We welcome her to become the permanent caretaker of this wonderful instrument. We feel incredibly lucky to have found her. Judith has such a warm and lovely personality, it was very nice to spend a winter afternoon in her company. Thank you for helping us find her!\nMy first Thumtack experience was certainly positive. Dave was great, on time, flexible with respect to our mutual schedules, thorough and friendly. He fixed an issue that other piano tuners avoided. I'm happy.\nGreat service and attention to detail. Made our old piano sound new again.\nChris was an absolute pleasure to work with. He was very knowledgable about our family piano and truly seemed care for it. I wanted my husband to see before and after pictures of our piano and Chris provided me with both. He was very polite, always on time, and offered us advice on how to care for our newly inherited piano in the future. We will definitely be using Chris for all our future piano needs.\nDave's service is always top shelf. Always on time, does a great job, and usually makes me laugh. He has a customer for life!\nMeticulous, friendly and professional... Professional musician and composer for 25 years.\nAlex is a conscientious, passionate craftsman. In addition to meticulously tuning our piano, he addressed a number of sticky keys. He could have easily just fixed the keys that were sticking but he took the time to regulate the entire 88! One key at a time! An ounce of prevention as they say. I will have him back at regular intervals now that the piano is playable again. I would recommend him highly.\nI offer piano tuning to any style of piano, as well as minor maintenance repairs. I have been tuning for over 15 years, and I also give piano lessons too.\nI always provide excellent service for very reasonable rates.\nBlair Benjamin is going to be my go to guy for my piano. He showed up promptly at 1:30, the time we scheduled and was amazing. I am a musician so I wanted to watch the tuning so I could learn. Blair was great, he broke down every step of what he was doing and we even had some musical talk as well. He doesn't nickel and dime you like some piano tuners out there, little things would come up during the tuning and he would just take care of them free of charge. I highly recommend Blair to anyone he is fantastic!\nGreat job...very professional...explained details of work and the whys. Highly recommend for your piano tuner needs.\nToday January 20th 2017, Dennis and his guys at B&N Piano moved a piano I bought on Craigslist. Not only was he the best quote of the several I got ( I tried general moving companies and piano movers of the 6 I contacted only 3 got back to me ) I decided to get a piano guy to move a piano as I didn't want to take a chance on somebody that doesn't move a piano everyday. His communication from the original quote through to delivery was 1st class, he was bang on time, and took great care with the delivery, and the price was right. This was my experience and as such I would highly recommend the guys at B&N Piano. I even got a deal on piano tuning, you wont get that with two guys and a truck.\nThomas Ford is one of the finest piano tuners I've met in my long career as a pianist. His tuning is impeccable and changed my steinway piano to be sensitive to many nuances with evenness. I highly recommend Thomas Ford. He is truly dedicated professional. Soh\nI offer piano tuning, voicing, regulating and repair, specializing in action regulation and voicing. I have 30 years of experience. I worked for 11 years as head technician at West Chester University School of Music. I have extensive concert tuning experience.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "15 Unbelievable Facts About Rock and Roll Artists\nullstein bild Dtl. / Getty Images\nThe history of rock music hides fascinating tales that shed light on the lives and careers of our beloved musicians.\nHere are some remarkable facts we stumbled upon from various rock and history threads on Reddit:\n1. Phil Collins Sings in Five Languages for ‘Tarzan’ Soundtrack\nPhil Collins, who composed Disney’s Tarzan soundtrack, sang all the songs not just in English but also in French, German, Italian, and Spanish, adding an international touch to the music.\n2. The Doors’ Unexpected Start: Music for Ford Training Video\nThe Doors’ journey began unexpectedly with their first studio recording being background music for a Ford dealer training video, completed approximately four months before their official debut album.\n3. Pink Floyd’s Balloon Mishap Disrupts Heathrow Flights\nPink Floyd’s famous pig balloon from “Animals” caused chaos when it broke free during a shoot, floating into Heathrow Airport’s airspace and forcing the cancellation of all flights, an unintended consequence of their ambitious art.\n4. Paul McCartney’s Passport Bluff at Customs\nIn 1967, Paul McCartney found himself without his passport while traveling to France for a music video shoot. However, he managed to convince customs officials to let him through by leveraging his fame and identity.\n5. Creed’s Contract Signed in Blood… and Reprinted\nIn 1997, members of the rock band Creed, Scott Stapp and Brian Marshall, signed their first record contract in blood, a dramatic gesture that necessitated a reprinting of the contract due to its unusual nature.\n6. Keith Richards’ Black Eye Courtesy of Chuck Berry\nKeith Richards received a black eye from Chuck Berry after playfully plucking the strings of Berry’s guitar backstage during a show, a moment of friction between two iconic musicians.\n7. Frank Zappa’s Surprising RIAA Label on Instrumental Album\nFrank Zappa’s instrumental album “Jazz from Hell” garnered attention for receiving an RIAA warning label despite being entirely instrumental, an unexpected twist for the unconventional musician.\n8. Queen’s Wealth Surpasses Queen Elizabeth II\nSurprisingly, the rock band Queen amassed greater wealth than even Queen Elizabeth II, a testament to their immense success and popularity in the music industry.\n9. ‘Born To Be Wild’: Canadian Roots of an American Classic\nDespite its quintessentially American sound, the song “Born To Be Wild” by Steppenwolf has Canadian roots, with three out of five band members being Canadian and the song sung by a German vocalist, revealing a surprising international background.\n10. Van Halen’s Mysteriously Disappearing, Reappearing Guitar\nEddie Van Halen’s iconic Frankenstrat guitar vanished from the Hard Rock Cafe only to mysteriously reappear later, adding a layer of intrigue to the tale of the beloved instrument.\n11. ‘Wizard Rock’: A Musical Tribute to Harry Potter\n‘Wizard rock’ emerged as a musical subgenre dedicated to the Harry Potter franchise, with musicians crafting songs inspired by events in the books and often dressing in themed costumes for performances at Harry Potter fan events.\n12. Florida Radio’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Marathon\nA Florida radio station made waves by playing Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” continuously for 24 hours, kicking off an all-Led Zeppelin format that captured the attention of listeners.\n13. Kurt Cobain’s Premature Obituary\nKurt Cobain found himself the subject of a premature obituary in March 1994, just weeks before his actual passing, a bizarre and tragic twist of fate.\n14. Freddie Mercury’s Last Recording Days\nIn his final months, Freddie Mercury dedicated himself to recording as many vocals as possible for Queen to complete after his death, leaving behind a lasting musical legacy.\n15. Queen’s Defiance of Apartheid Embargo for South Africa Show\nQueen disregarded international sanctions to perform at the Sun City venue in South Africa, a controversial decision that sparked debate but demonstrated their commitment to their fans.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "For lease 1750 per month. six bedroom all ensuite and fitted. Runs as BnB, art gallery, bar, cafe, and music venue. Dining room with 20 covers and self-service breakfast bar. Large area for arts, music with comfortable sofas. Dining room with 20 covers and self-service breakfast counter. Large kitchen for restaurant activities. Secluded sunny courtyard.. Suit imaginative chefs, jazz musicians and interest in history.\n- Established Business\n- Price Reduced", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "October 16, 2017 – AmpTrack Technologies has announced an open call for Beta testers of its free app, HumBeatz, which is a 4-track music loop creator with a pitch and beat detection that works directly in a Chrome web browser. This cloud-based app allows users to simply hum, whistle or beatbox and turn those sounds and song ideas into a musical instrument for creating musical parts, loops, stems or song sketches.\nThe app offers two modes for easy music creation. Hum Mode lets the user vocalize or sing a melody or bass line and assign it to one of more than 100 instruments in the app’s virtual keyboard for playback. In Beatz Mode, the user can easily create recorded rhythm parts by beatboxing and selecting from eight drum kits and eight percussion kits (192 sounds total). HumBeatz automatically detects and converts the beatbox sounds to percussion instruments.\nEffects can also be added, and parts, notes and sound assignments can be manually changed in the app. Recordings can be further refined by saving and importing work into AmpTrack technologies’ Amped Studio, a full-fledged, free online DAW, or by exporting to the desktop.\nWatch a short HumBeatz overview video here.\nFor those interested in being a Beta tester:\nPlease sign up for a free account at HumBeatz.com. Next, watch the tutorial video here to begin exploring the HumBeatz features. Then, after trying HumBeatz, please forward all impressions and suggestions to email@example.com.\n“HumBeatz lets non-musicians easily and enjoyably participate in the music creation process, and allows musicians to save an idea when away from their instrument,” says Bil Bryant, CEO of AmpTrack Technologies. “We invite as many people as possible to try the free online beta containing machine learning algorithms that will help us improve the product.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As a professional performer and teacher, Halyma is always ready to bring her love of belly dance directly to you! Through private lessons, mini and full workshops, she can carry her relaxed teaching style into your home, place of work or other suitable location. And for either solo performances or group productions with the Belly Dancing For Fun!!! Dancers, Halyma emerges to entertain, tastefully and with a fun energy that gets everyone up dancing!\nYou can also register for any of her weekly classes in Ottawa to get that full intensive learning of this ancient dance form!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "1984-1987: The Heyday of the Cultural Arts Program\nMarch 1984: CAP sponsors an exhibit, “Three Generations of African American Quit Makers” by the Scott-Caldwell Family of Baltimore.\nJuly 1984: Photographer Kay Shelton curates an exhibit including his famous image, “Strange Fruit Emmitt Till.”\nSeptember 1985: Baltimore native and world famous jazz trumpeter, John Lampkin, gives one of his many performances at the Eubie Blake Cultural Arts Center.\nOctober 1985: Donald Washington choreographs the musical, “West-Side Story,” as a joint CAP/Coppin State University production. Washington went on to work for the Alvin Alley American Dance Theater.\nMarch 1986: Ella Fitzgerald performs at a CAP fundraiser event.\nDecember 1986: “A Streetcar Named Desire” is performed with leading roles by Charles Croxton and Lynn Shipley at CAP’s Dunbar Performing Arts Center.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Blue Rondo à la Turk: For Percussion Sextet with Optional Bass Guitar\nTo get notified when this product becomes available, click the button below. We'll send you an email when it's back in stock.\nIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Dave Brubeck landmark jazz recording \"Time Out,\" Alfred presents a percussion ensemble arrangement of the popular Brubeck composition from that album, Blue Rondo à la Turk, written especially for the developing intermediate and advanced percussion ensemble. This arrangement captures the essence and form of his masterpiece, including mixed meters with a 12-bar blues and the classic Joe Morello drum track.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It’s the countdown to blast-off for Future Music Festival. The Australian-born festival debuts in Malaysia at Kuala Lumpur’s Sepang International Circuit on Saturday, 17 March. Avid music fans have the chance to enjoy a huge line-up of artists including The Chemical Brothers, Flo Rida and Tinie Tempah.\nWith so many performances and only one you, you may have to choose between favorites at the festival. On the other hand, The Chicago Mix™ allows you to enjoy both sweet CaramelCrisp™ and savory CheeseCorn™ at the same time. Stop by a Garrett Popcorn Shop® for a winning treat before your day of endless fun at Future Music Festival.\nFuture Music Festival\nSepang International Circuit (SIC)\n17 March 2012\nDoors open 2 pm\nGarrett Popcorn Shops®", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Abracadabra Violin Book 2 (Piano Accompaniments): The Way to Learn Through Songs and Tunes (Abracadabra Strings,Abracadabra)\nBy: James Alexander (author), Dee Shulman (illustrator)Paperback\nUp to 2 WeeksUsually despatched within 2 weeks\nAll the pieces from Abracadabra Violin Book 2\" are contained in this book, arranged with simple piano accompaniments to give the young violinist extra musical support. Written for the pianist of average ability, it may be used both during lesson time and during practise at home.\"\nBeginners' tutors for strings, featuring:- carefully graded songs and tunes- clear guidance on theory and technique- enough flexibility to suit individual teaching approaches- ensemble skills taught through duets and trios- playalong CDs for home practice\nNow in a thrid edition, our bestselling Abracadabra Strings Series has a fresh and contemporary new look and extra new CDs to play along to. Fully updated with new material and tunes that beginners really want to play, these tutors are bound to set countless children on a clear path of progress and enjoyment with their chosen instrument.\nA rewarding and enjoyable selection of pieces, progressing through Grades 2 and 3.\nNumber Of Pages:\n- ID: 9780713637298\n- Saver Delivery: Yes\n- 1st Class Delivery: Yes\n- Courier Delivery: Yes\n- Store Delivery: Yes\nPrices are for internet purchases only. Prices and availability in WHSmith Stores may vary significantly\n© Copyright 2013 - 2018 WHSmith and its suppliers.\nWHSmith High Street Limited Greenbridge Road, Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom, SN3 3LD, VAT GB238 5548 36", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Music for Children\nMusikgarten program will help kids develop a keen ear\nAugust 10 -\nUniversity of Redlands Community School of Music and the Arts Announces\nMusikgarten Music Classes for Ages 3-5\nThe University of Redlands Community School of Music and the Arts is offering a Musikgarten music program for children ages 3-5 called the “Cycle of Seasons.”\nClasses for the fall term will begin on Sept. 4 and conclude Dec.15.\nMuskigarten is the most pedagogically sound early childhood program, which transitions children into piano lessons.\nThe classes will be taught by Christine Price, who has been certified by the Musikgarten Organization. Price also teaches the Suzuki piano method through the Community School of Music and the Arts at the University of Redlands.\nThe “Cycle of Seasons” program is designed around activities that focus on the four seasons-- activities that aim to develop language skills through musical participation and dramatic play, as well as to foster independence and group participation.\nThe 45-minute classes are held once per week at the University of Redlands. Classes are available on:\n• Thursdays at 10 a.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m., and 7 p.m. and\n• Fridays at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., and 2 p.m.\nThe registration deadline for the first day of classes is Friday, August 28, and tuition for the 15-week term is $225. For more information, contact the University of Redlands Community School of Music and the Arts at 909-748-8844.\nOffice of Public Relations", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "\"After years as founder and uber-guitar player for Boston power-pop cult band The Atomics and tours with The Dead Kennedys, Gang of 4, Mission of Burma and Nick Lowe bands Bram Tchaikovsky, Wreckless Eric and so, so many others IN the folk and acoustic scene like Chris Smither, Sarah Watkins, John Hammond and Jon Dee Graham, Eric has come full circle.\nFull circle back the roots he knows so well. And does with such remarkable skill and clarity. An admirer of David Bromberg, Leon Redbone, Taj Mahal and Joe Pass and schooled by Steve Howe (YES) and Mic Goodrick (Gary Burton Quartet, Pat Metheny), this show will make you a believer, too...\"\n- Des Burleigh | Sonora News Dispatch\n\"Eric Sommer... 1 of the most incredible guitar players I've ever witnessed in person. Thank you...!\"\n- Jimmy Pelletier, Skateboard (April 9, 2012)\n\"Eric Sommer... one of the coolest acts in rockdom...!\"\n- cynthia price, Dishtowel Music (September 11, 2011)\n\"Eric Sommer is the Badass King of Americana... hands down!\"\n- Mike Utley, MidWest Music Press (July 1, 2011)\n\"Wanna hear a smokin' hot guitar player?\"\n- Bill De Young, Savannah Connect (july 2011)\n\"Eric Sommer, acoustic guitar superhero, joins T Model Ford at The White Water Tavern...\n- John Tarpley, Arkansas Times (May 18, 2011)\n\"eric sommer, one of the most mind-blowing acoustic guitar players in recent memory, comes to little rock, arkansas...\"\n- john tarpley, arkansas times (Jan 26, 2011)\n\" Anyone who’s been in need of a fix of spectacular, percussive and virtuosic guitar work can rest easy: Eric Sommer’s coming to town; One of the finest American guitar players on the road today Eric’s truly an American original\"\n- Jim Reed, Savannah Connect (Jan 03, 2008)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ric'Key Pageot playing Evgeni's Waltz (Like A Virgin Waltz)Ric'Key Pageot is Madonna's pianist, keyboardist and accordionist since the \"Sticky & Sweet Tour 2008\". During the MDNA World Tour, he played an emotional classical version of Like A Virgin, based on Evgeni's Waltz's instrumentation. Evgeni's Waltz is one of the songs composed by Abel Korzeniowski for Madonna's movie \"W.E.\" (2011).\nTo celebrate the \"MDNA World Tour\" DVD release, Ric'Key Pageot shares a video of him playing the piano & \"Evgeni's Waltz\"... Enjoy this sweet poetic moment...\nTags : Like A Virgin, Like A Virgin Waltz, Ric'Key Pageot\nCommentairesAucun commentaire pour le moment\nSuivre le flux RSS des commentaires\nAjouter un commentaire", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Buy the song from here: http://masqueraded.bandcamp.com\nPost-punk from Helsinki, Finland. Filmed, directed and edited by Suzi Sabotage and Jacques Saph, with assistance of Sami Sirniö\nSong from upcoming, yet untitled album, to be released in 2016.\nSuzi Sabotage – vocals\nJacques Saph – bass\nAnton Välimaa – guitar\nWilliam Freyermuth – drums\n(c) Masquerade, 2015", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Drama and Music\nKingswood College is well known for its extensive arts program. Encompassing music, singing, dance, drama, multimedia, photography, visual communication and design, our wide-ranging curriculum fosters students’ imagination, curiosity and creativity.\nArts students learn the skills and techniques to capture and convey their thoughts, ideas and feelings through creative artistic expression, whether visually, musically or via dance and movement.\nClassroom, instrumental and choral music programs provide students with scope for both group participation and individual development. Students can take additional private tuition classes on campus during school hours for their preferred musical instruments, singing or drama.\nKingswood College boasts a strong event-driven program of performances, plays and productions, concerts, special events and evenings where students have the opportunity to perform and showcase their individual and collective talents.\nThe College Art Show displays art works across the spectrum of arts subjects from students in the Junior, Middle and Senior Schools and is always a popular annual event in the College calendar.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "My phone has twelve tracks downloaded to it, which auto-play in alphabetic order every time I get into the car. Six of them are the tracks from my album, Contest Winner EP; four are from Frederick Ingram’s Elements; one is Frederick’s single “Fish Bowl“; and one—oddly—is Ozzy’s “Shot in the Dark” from The Ultimate Sin album.\nThis Friday, I’m diving back into Frederick’s exquisite EP Elements, one of my favorite indie releases of the past decade. Because I listen to this EP multiple times each week, I’ve gotten to know these tunes very well. Indeed, I wrote about another song from the EP, “Yesterday’s Weather,” back in January.\nToday, I’d like to examine the other standout track from Elements, the shimmering “Ephemery.”\n“Ephemery” opens with plaintively echoing guitars, with a resonant bass line and shuffling drum pattern kicking in after a few measures. The bass at times has a certain acoustic quality to it that gives it a nice “thump” that isn’t overly electronic.\nFrederick has always been genius at incorporating the melodic lines of his voice into his instrumentation, and “Ephemery” is no different, as the instrumental introduction anticipates some of the melodic lines to come, specifically the “chorus.”\nI put “chorus” in quotation marks because there’s not a chorus in the traditional sense. The end of the verses sometimes function as such, such as the end of the second verse, which repeats “fight to recover the desert’s lost treasure” in rhythmic and melodic synchronicity with the persistent guitar line.\nThe song seems to me, too, to be the thematic centerpiece of the 2013 release. It depicts a carefree beach scene as a battlefield—“cigarette butts buttress the dunes.” In the final “chorus,” the song poses the question “what are these other Elements?”\nThe answer? “Blood, dust, panic, war.”\nGive it a listen and leave a comment.\n4 thoughts on “Supporting Friends Friday: Frederick Ingram’s “Ephemery””\nReblogged this on chez frïdrîx .\nLikeLiked by 1 person\nThis eclectic collection reminds me of the 60:30:10 rule in color theory.\nLikeLiked by 1 person\nWould you mind briefly explaining the 60:30:10 rule for my benefit, and for my readers?\nThis guy mansplains it best, featuring my favourite film of all time: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CYRyaY-9F_g", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "“Utopia” is an electronic song performed by British group Goldfrapp. The song was written and produced by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory for the duo’s debut album Felt Mountain (2000). It was released as the album’s second single in October 2000.\n“Utopia (Genetically Enriched)” is an electronic remix of a song that was written and produced by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory for the duo’s debut album Felt Mountain (2000). It was released as the album’s fourth single in June 2001.\n“Utopia (Genetically Enriched)” became Goldfrapp’s first song to chart in their native United Kingdom. The song debuted on the UK singles chart in the week ending 23 June 2001 at number sixty-two.\n“Twist” is an electronic–dance song written by British duo Goldfrapp for their second album Black Cherry (2003). It was produced by Goldfrapp, and received a positive reception from music critics. The song was released as the third single in the winter of 2003 (see 2003 in music) and was a minor hit in the United Kingdom, charting just outside the top thirty in the UK Singles Chart. In the United States the song was a hit on the Billboard Dance Sales chart, reaching number eighteen.\nIn an interview with New Beats, Alison Goldfrapp described the genesis of the song:\nIt’s a sort of sexual fantasy that I had about a boy who worked at the fairground, who I lusted after. He was in control and I wasn’t cause I was sat on the waltzer and he was the one that was spinning it around and–I don’t know–it’s sort of lust, adolescent, awakening, smells and noise and dirt. That’s what “Twist” is about.\n“Train” is an electronic dance song written by British group Goldfrapp for their second album Black Cherry (2003). The song was produced by Goldfrapp and received a very positive reception from music critics. It was released as the lead single in the second quarter of 2003 and reached the top thirty in the United Kingdom, where it became Goldfrapp’s first top thirty single. The original title of the song was “Wolf Lady”, which makes reference to the lyrics in the second verse of the song. The lyrics of “Train” are based on Alison Goldfrapp’s observations while in Los Angeles, California. She stated that the song describes wealth, drugs, and sex with “a sort of disgust of it and at the same time a sort of need to indulge in these things.”\n“This Is the New Shit” is the second single of Marilyn Manson’s album The Golden Age of Grotesque. It has several new industrial beats that Tim Sköld added when he joined the band as the bassist in 2002. It was the most successful song from The Golden Age of Grotesque following mOBSCENE. The UK release features the band’s cover of the Geto Boys’ “Mind of a Lunatic.” British band Goldfrapp created a remix of the song in 2003 called Marilyn Manson vs Goldfrapp. This featured as the second track on the UK release of “This Is the New Shit”, the CD also contained the video for the single.\nFor its music video counterpart, an alternate recording was used with the lyrics “This is the new ‘hit'” and the song title reading “This Is the New ‘Hit”. The word, “Motherfuckers”, is replaced by some jumpy beat noises.\nThis song was featured in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation titled “Suckers”. It was also included on the soundtrack for the film, The Matrix Reloaded, and used in the film, Hatchet. It was used in several trailers for Bioware’s 2009 RPG Dragon Age: Origins.\nBetween July 10 and August 7, 2007, the radio edit was used as the theme song for the WWE’s ECW brand. It replaced the long-standing theme, “Bodies” by Drowning Pool, and was replaced by “This Is Extreme!” by Harry Slash & The Slash tones and “Don’t Question My Heart”—an in house written track—the two times it was replaced.\n“Strict Machine” is an electronic dance song written by British group Goldfrapp and Nick Batt for their second studio album Black Cherry (2003). It was produced by Goldfrapp and describes laboratory rats in neuroscience experiments. Alison Goldfrapp read in a newspaper about experiments in which scientists stimulated rats’ brains so that the rats would feel joy when following commands. She was inspired to write “Strict Machine” based on images of the experiment and “more human aspects of machines and sex and control.”\nWonderful Electric, Goldfrapp’s concert tour DVD in support of Black Cherry, was named after lyrics in the song.\n“Satin Boys, Flaming Chic” is a limited edition 7″ vinyl picture single by British duo Goldfrapp. The single features a remix of the band’s song “Satin Chic” from their third album Supernature (2005) and a cover version of The Ordinary Boys’ “Boys Will Be Boys”, as performed on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge on the 27th of April 2006. The single was released in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2006.\nThese are the formats and track listings of major single releases of “Satin Boys, Flaming Chic”.\n“Rocket” is a synthpop song by English duo Goldfrapp from their fifth studio album, Head First. Written and produced by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory, with additional production by Pascal Gabriel, the song was released as the album’s lead single on 8 March 2010. To promote the single release, the duo performed the song on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on 26 March 2010. The music video features Alison driving a truck hauling a rocket with someone entirely wrapped in duct tape who is then taped to the rocket when it is launched at the end.\nThe track was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 2011 Grammy Awards, but lost to Rihanna’s “Only Girl (In the World)”.\n“Ride a White Horse” is a song performed by English electronic music duo Goldfrapp. The song was written by Alison Goldfrapp, Will Gregory and Nick Batt for Goldfrapp’s third album Supernature (2005). The song was inspired by the disco era nightclub Studio 54.\nThe song was released as the album’s third single in February 2006 to positive reviews from music critics. It was a commercial success, reaching the top forty on the majority of the charts it entered. The song has been remixed a number of times and was featured in the American television program The L Word.\n“Ride a White Horse” was also featured in Need for Speed: Carbon and The Sims 3.\n“Pilots” is an electronic song written by British group Goldfrapp for their debut studio album Felt Mountain (2000). The song was produced by Goldfrapp and received a positive reception from music critics. It was released as a double A-side single with “Lovely Head” in the fourth quarter of 2001, and became the band’s second single to chart within the top seventy-five in the United Kingdom.\n“A Pain That I’m Used To” is the second single and opening track of the album Playing the Angel by Depeche Mode, and the forty-second DM single overall. The single was released on 12 December 2005 by Mute Records. The single contains remixes by UK Mute label mates Goldfrapp, and Jacques Lu Cont (Stuart Price). There are also two radio versions. The first one is only a slight remix, whereas the second contains a completely different, more electronic introduction and instrumentation.\nAlthough “Better Days” was mentioned to be the B-side for the single in its press release, it ended up being a track called “Newborn” when the track lists were released. “Better Days” went on to be the B-side to the following single, “Suffer Well”. “Newborn” is a slow song that transforms into a harder song during the chorus. It is a fan-favourite in terms of B-sides.\nThe single was only physically released in the UK. The US only had a digital release (i.e., iTunes). The song reached number 15 upon UK release. In the US, the song debuted at number 45 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart on 14 January 2006. It eventually reached number 6.\nThe music video is directed by Uwe Flade, who also directed the “Precious” single. It features much more live action sequences (in a race track), than the “Precious” video and even David Gahan’s “Bottle Living” video. Depeche Mode’s live drummer Christian Eigner also appears in the video.\nThe song was featured on the Bones episode THE WOMAN IN THE TUNNEL. It is also featured in the first trailer for the 2010 film The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. The Jacques Lu Cont Remix also appears on the soundtrack to EA Sports’ 2006 FIFA World Cup video game.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hi! Pro with motivational/inspiring tracks for commercial/corporate means. House music. Guitar player. Listen to my teaser to know my music.\nI’m a musician, guitar player, music composer and producer with +20 years experience currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.\nI specialize in composing and producing all kinds of genres, from house, pop/rock to cinematic/experimental music.\nI am the music producer for the leading FM Radio (Metro 95.1) of Buenos Aires since year 2004, producing original tracks for promotion/incidental.\nI produce music used for advertising, social media, conference, products launch for clients including, Peugeot, Ford, Citroen, Heineken, Movistar, Converse, among others.\nI have produced music for many major electronic labels such as Global Underground, Renaissance, Balance, among others. I’ve also produced official remixes for some of the biggest progressive/house DJs in the world like Hernan Cattaneo and Nick Warren. These remixes have been released in a standalone & compilation albums.\nAs a guitar player, I performed at the Teatro Colón in Hernan Cattaneo’s symphonic concert, Connected. I am also the lead guitar for famous argentine soloist, Maxi Trusso.\nI have my own studio where I work with Logic X and Ableton Live and different hardware synths.\nI'd love to hear about your project. Click the 'Contact' button above to get in touch.\n3 Reviews - 1 Repeat ClientEndorse mercuriomusic\nGreat job, very nice guitar playing!\nVery nice guitar, definitively enhanced my track! Fast and friendly communication. Highly recommended!\nMercurio is one of the most experienced musicians and producers I know. He delivers fastly and efficiently. Is a pleasure to work with him!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "this song is terrible. Why would you bitcrush the bassline to the point where it's not even a bassline anymore. I'm sorry, but i'm gonna rate this a 1\nMake it longer! I really like it.\nThanks! I will make it longer though, just kind of testing the waters... No pun intended.\nSexy. Anger is forced, but that doesn't matter, 'cause it's awesome!\nSounds a bit generic, but it's still really really good. Keep making music :)\nOkey, thanks. Yea ill keep making music :D\nThere's something missing\nBut I can't quite figure out what it is.\nBtw, this isn't Dnb, so please don't post it in the dnb section :)\nA FULL 5/5 10/10!\nThis made me laugh so hard ;)\nHey thanks ^_^. Would you believe me if I told you that I wrote this in my econ. class?\nYou thief ;D\nI heard you got some inspiration from Jean Michelle Jarre ;)\nIt's a nice, relaxing tune, though. But please try not to steal other people's beats next time, okay? 3/5 5/10\nThe reason for the low score is simply because you stole the beat.\never heard of a cover version?\nnothing \"stolen\" here :)\nalso it's Michel, not Michelle\nFuck me in the butt and call me Rudy! Have you guys made a song about every damn thing on earth?!\nI got an idea! Make a song about *Drumroll* Fish and/or old people!\nHahaha yeah pretty much, don't have a song about fish but do have a song about old people (Old People Crossing, Speed Up) but I didn't post it here cuz the recording sucks haha\nI knew it!\nHaha! I clicked the link to this song without knowing who made it.\nAs soon as the song started, I could hear it was, Gifted But Twisted!\nGOD DAMN, I LOVE YOU GUYS! Now, go write a song about bitches and drugs.\nWhat? You don't want to? YOU HAVE TO! DO IT!\nHahaha already have!\nhttp://www.newgrounds.com/audio/liste n/204158 and http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/liste n/237398\nI only have one thing to say, and this: I came!\nlol hopefully not over your keyboard, that would be a mess.... o.O\nnewgrounds.com — Your #1 online entertainment & artist community! All your base are belong to us.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds played “She’s a Woman” by the Beatles for the first time at last night’s concert in London.\n“She’s a Woman” originally appeared as the B-side to the Beatles’ 1964 single “I Feel Fine,” and it was later included on the Beatles ’65 album. Watch the video of Dave and Tim’s cover:\nLast night’s show at Eventim Apollo also featured the first Dave and Tim performances of “Dreamgirl” and “Sugar Will.” Here’s the “Dreamgirl” video:\nAnd here’s the “Sugar Will” performance:\nThe Dave and Tim European tour continues tomorrow in Dublin.\nThe duo also announced the release of Live Trax Vol. 41, which captures their March 13, 1999 concert in Berkeley, California. Highlights of that show include covers of the Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses” and Lyle Lovett’s “If I Had a Boat,” plus “The Last Stop” and a unique version of “Stay” in a different time signature.\nLive Trax 41 is available for pre-order and will be released May 12.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Winter Roots Roundup is pleased to welcome Dr. Philip Bohlman to UAlberta as a guest speaker with the Department of Music‘s 2016-2017 colloquium. Dr. Bohlman is an ethnomusicologist and a Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago.\nThis academic presentation will explore the relationship between music and history, the growing interest in the field of ethnomusicology, and the meaning of folk song in today’s political and historical landscape.\nThis lecture is free and open to the public – we hope you will join us!\nWhen: Friday, February 3rd, 2017\nWhere: BUS 1-05, Business Building\nUAlberta North Campus\n“Again, Folk Song: Herder, Voices of the People, and the Return to History”\nBy coining the term, “folk song,” and applied it to a class of global musical practices for the first time, Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) established a new paradigm for recognizing and representing the relation of music to history. Folk song, Herder held, entered into history in counterpoint with history’s entry into folk song. The folk songs the philosopher, theologian, and anthropologist Herder gathered and published for the seminal volumes, Alte Volkslieder (1774), Volkslieder (1778/1779), Der Cid (1778), and Stimmen der Völker in Liedern (1807) formed at the confluence of time and space, hence accruing to a “moment of history in music.” Folk songs in these collections came from historical sources in the past and ethnographic encounter in the present, and in their common historical context they made possible new narrative paths in the future.\nI turn to the Herderian moment of history in music, to which I have attempted to give narrative direction through my own recent translation of Herder’s writings on music and nationalism (Song Loves the Masses, California 2017), to ask several questions about the relation of music to history and history to music. At one level, I seek to contribute to the growing study of the intellectual history of ethnomusicology. I also search for the position of historical agency in the transformation from musical object to subject. Finally, I turn to the meaning of folk song in the global politics of the moment of history in music that is our own day, examining the ways in which we might turn, again, to folk song in order to return to history.", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "As for the Jeremy and Richard being musicians, i remember JC saying Richard could play the guitar and he was learning to play the drums\nYes, I remember that Jeremy said somethink about that band thing in one of his Times articles. His going to play the drums he said.\"It'll feature performances from Supergrass and Travis, as well as a very special appearance from the Top Gear house band as our three presenters take to the stage accompanied by Justin Hawkins from The Darkness.\"\nTop Gear house band?", "label": "Yes"}
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{"text": "I composed The Darkness Behind the Light last year and is meant to be an etude for a late-beginner/early-intermediate guitar student. The piece consists of a melody (top voice) and bass voice (bottom) with an occasional inner voice.\nWhile composing this I imagined a creepy scene (Halloween-ish) with a dark doorway full of mystery.\nI hope you enjoy this teaching video. You can find other videos like this at my guitar school found at my website.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Billy Keane's Album Release Party\nBousquet Mountain Ski Area (101 Dan Fox Dr, Pittsfield, MA , Pittsfield MA)\nBilly Keane celebrates the release of his first solo album in over a decade, \"Too Much To Let It Go\", at the legendary Berkshire's ski mountain, Bousquet. This will also be the finale of the Bousquet mountain music series.\nWith super duper special guest Taylor Ashton.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Blues – Part 2\nClasses for Vocalists, Vocal Literature\nStudy and perform different elements and styles of the blues with such songs as “Bring It On Home”, “Everyday I Have the Blues” and “Come Back, Baby.” You will become familiar with the repertoire and learn how to get the right sound. At the end of the 12 weeks, you will perform with an instrumental ensemble.\nPrerequisite: Permission of instructor", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "AUDIO: Tekno - DesignerBy KellyChi December 19, 2021, 11:43 am Comments\nAre you here to Download AUDIO: Tekno - Designer mp3? then scroll below.\nDOWNLOAD MP3: AUDIO: Tekno - Designer\nTekno Designer MP3 DOWNLOAD\nAs the Talented Inventive Nigerian singer and music magician, Tekno gear up for the pull of his debut album ascribed as “Old Romance” he let go this lead composition named “Designer.”\nThe new intriguing melody was built by Zaki, Listen below and share while we await the full project from Slim Daddy.\nHave a listen below!\nMUSIC FILE DETAILS\n|Song:||AUDIO: Tekno - Designer|\n|Audio Size:||12 Mb|\n|Bit Rate:||179 kBit/s|\nMore For You: VIDEO: Niniola - Designer ft. Sarz", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Pierre Pressure Podcast will be recommencing after along hiatus, with an interview with the legendary guru of punk bass, Mike Watt.\nWatt got in touch with Pierre after playing Body Kite's song \"Amazingishly Gracefulistical\" on his fine \"Watt From Pedro Show\" on November 27. We could not be more stoked.\nStay tuned for Pierre's conversation with Mike Watt on Pierre Pressure Podcast.\nListen to THE WATT FROM PEDRO SHOW.\nThis song was a live improvisation recorded live at California Hill Studios on January 22, 2022, and features Gerald Menke on guitar and drums, Daniel Basiletti on keyboards, accordion, and trumpet, and Pierre de Gaillande on bass and trumpet.\nYou can hear more Body Kite music HERE:\nAnd come see Body Kite live on Friday December 2 at 8:30pm at Quinn's in Beacon!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|CLASSIC CARMEN - HBSO will perform ballet Carmen Suite at the HCM City Opera House on April 2. Photo courtesy of HBSO|\nHCM CITY – The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will bring classical and contemporary ballet by Vietnamese and international choreographers to the Opera House’s stage on April 2.\nThe highlight of the performance will be the classic ballet Carmen Suite, created in 1967 by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso.\nThe work is based on the 19th-century opera by French composer Georges Bizet to music by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, depicting the tragedy of Carmen, a fiery gypsy, who falls in love with Don José.\nThe HBSO’s performance is staged by People’s Artist Kim Quy, one of the country’s leading choreographers and vice president of the Việt Nam Dancing Artists’ Association.\nIt will feature Nguyễn Thu Trang as Carmen, Hồ Phi Điệp as Don José, and dancers from HBSO’s ballet department.\n|FRENCH BALLET - French choreographer Julien Guerin’s ballet Dépaysement will be featured at the performance on April 2. Photo courtesy of HBSO|\nThe show will also present French choreographer Julien Guerin’s ballet Dépaysement, based on music of Chopin, Satie, Faure, Beethoven and Albioni.\nThe work was created for HBSO in 2016.\nIt describes a spiritual journey of a lonely young woman who has a dream of sharing her feelings with other people.\nThe performance will feature eight of HBSO’s talented dancers - Đỗ Hoàng Khang Ninh, Nguyễn Thu Trang, Trần Thị Hồng Vân, La Mẫn Nhi, Thạch Hiểu Lăng, Phạm Thế Phương, Nguyễn Minh Tâm, and Meritorious Artist Đàm Đức Nhuận.\nGuerin was a former dancer at the Ballets de Monte-Carlo. He has created and choreographed numerous ballets such as Le temps du Tendre (Heuristic of the feeling of love) for the Ballets de Monte-Carlo in 2021, and Dear Soaring Thoughts for the Czech National Ballet in 2020.\nVietnamese choreographer Nguyễn Phúc Hùng will bring to the stage his contemporary dance Falling Angels.\nThe performance aims to juxtapose the female dancer’s pristine innocence and the male dancer’s masculine toughness.\nAccording to Hùng, purity itself can win over one’s heart and the dance moves thus explore this virtue with the understanding that contemplation, deep attention and sophistication are required to observe what is most valuable.\nThe work will be performed by two dancers, Đỗ Hoàng Khang Ninh and Sùng A Lùng, who won the Gold Medal at the 2016 National Young Choreographer Talent Competition and gave the concept for the dance.\nHùng, a graduate in choreography of Fontys Dance Academy in Netherlands, is general director in charge of HBSO's programmes.\nHe has choreographed several contemporary dances such as Những Mảnh Ghép Của Giấc Mơ (Dream Puzzles), Chạm Tay Vào Quá Khứ (Touching the Past), Đi Qua Tình Yêu (Gone Through Love), and Lub qhov rooj (The Door).\nThe dance show will begin at 8pm at 7 Lam Sơn Square in District 1. Tickets are available at the venue and at www.ticketbox.vn. VNS", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Radial USB-Pro is a high-resolution stereo direct box designed to convert sound files from a laptop computer and seamlessly transfer them to a pair of balanced audio outputs to feed a PA, recording or broadcast mixing console.\nRadial USB Pro Features:\nHigh performance 24bit/96k stereo direct box\nAutomatically installs without the need of a driver\nBuilt-in headphone amplifier for monitoring\nBalanced Lo-Z outputs with switchable isolation.\nRadial USB Pro Specifications:\nAudio circuit type: Custom decoder with analog line drive\nUSB compliance: USB 2.0 full speed\nBit depth: 24bit (16bit capable)\nSampling rate: 96kHz (44.1kHz / 48kHz auto sensing)\nSound file compatibility: WDM, MME, ASIO, CoreAudio and DirectSound\nSoftware compatibility: Windows XP/Vista/Win7 and Mac OS\nFrequency response: 5Hz ~ 40kHz (30Hz ~ 18kHz with isolation)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Samhain: A Celtic Halloween\nA selection of 13 (the perfect number) songs and tunes recorded LIVE from the 2016 show. Proceeds will be used toward making this year's show (2018) even more amazing. We will have a larger stage and more seating, so get the word out!! Tickets will be on sale soon!\nPadraic Conroy: guitar, vocals, flute. Zac Leger: Bodzouki, flute, bodhran, vocals. John McKenna: button accordion, vocals. Erin Esses: cello. Vito Gutilla: fiddle. Aedan MacDonnell: Celtic harp, piano accordion, vocals. Doreen Wiley: vocals. Ken O'Malley: narration. Michael Kelly: Recording and Mastering.\nSongs that may be under copyright are not included on the album, but may be heard in the track list below and are listed as \"Free.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Wishgrove in concert at TFAC\nPublished 3:31 pm Thursday, September 16, 2010\nWishgrove will be performing on Saturday, September 25, at Tryon Fine Arts Centers auditorium. The show begins at 8 p.m., with an opening set by singer/songwriter Cabell Brand. All proceeds benefit Tryon Fine Arts Center, which brings cultural enrichment to the Foothills community. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the box office.\nWishgrove is a rock band from the mountains of North Carolina that writes, records, and performs its own music. The band features Tony Bell on drums, Mark McCullough on bass and back-up vocals, and Rich Nelson on vocals, guitar, and keyboards.\nThe group recently released its first full-length CD, I Lost My Head, which can be found on iTunes, CDBaby, and Wishgrove.com. Listen at www.wishgrove.com/ or www.myspace.com/wishgrove. The August issue of Bold Life magazine reviewed Wishgroves debut CD. The review is available at www.boldlife.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A15295.\nCabell Brand will open the show on solo guitar and vocals. Brand has played many shows&bsp; and his music can be heard at www.myspace.com/redcloudmusician.\nWishgrove and Cabell Brand performed at Rogers Park in July, and again in downtown Tryon to help celebrate the towns 125th birthday. The group says it is looking forward to the concert at TFAC. We are really excited to play such a beautiful venue, and help support Tryon Fine Art Centers mission, says Wishgroves Nelson.\nThe show will be filmed and recorded to generate material to enhance the bands video presence on the web. We want to play this and a few other shows and then focus on writing and recording our new material, some of which were already playing live, says Wishgroves McCullough.\nThe band recently put its first video on its new YouTube channel; a live version of the song Try from a recent show. Visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz2JUWqRIX4 to view the video.\nThere will be a casual supper at 6 p.m. in TFACs Farwell Garden hosted by the musicians. Tryon Fine Arts Center is located at 34 Melrose Avenue in Tryon. Call 828-859-8322 for more information or ticket sales.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "While Big Deal Nashville offers a lot of great deals to local restaurants, businesses, performing arts groups and the like, this particular deal is so noteworthy Pith feels the need to grab our megaphone and shout it out. For $20, you get an $85 dollar ticket to the Thursday, March 10, Nashville Symphony performance, featuring world-renowned conductor (and former Nashville Symphony music advisor) Leonard Slatkin directing a performance of Philip Glass' Concerto for Violin No. 2 \"American Four Seasons.\" Also on the agenda: Rossini's Overture to La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17, \"Little Russian.\"\nThat's a savings of 77 percent! And to a concert that would be well worth the full price of admission. But hurry — you have until midnight tonight to purchase tickets. Multiple tickets purchased in one order will be seated together.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Elijah Rock is an example of a Negro Spiritual.\nSlaves were the composers of Negro Spirituals, but white men written down and got some credit where credit was not due. The first book published of Negro spirituals was titled The First 100 Slave Songs of the United States. When Negro spirituals are performed on stage they are called concert spirituals. Some Negro Spirituals were sang with instruments. Some of these instruments include the djembe, which is an African drum, and the guitar. Many of the spirituals were sound a cappella.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Concert: The Blackheart Orchestra\nSaturday 12th October, 19:30, St Endellion Church\nAdmission £10 (Free to accompanying carers. Free to under-16s accompanied by a paying adult)\nThe Blackheart Orchestra is one of the must-see bands of 2019, described by the Daily Express as “Ethereal”, BBC Radio 2 as “A great band” and by Genesis legend Steve Hackett as “Beautiful, powerful and inspiring”. Its members are award-winning British songwriters, composers and multi-instrumentalists Chrissy Mostyn and Rick Pilkington. Their songs defy classification. Their multi-instrumental sonic landscapes sound as though far more than two musicians are at work and half the thrill of their performances is watching them move from electric and acoustic guitars, bowed guitar, piano, organ, bass and electronic percussion to vintage synthesisers, omnichord and melodica in a complex choreographed weave of musical moods and textures. This will be a gig like nothing you’ve ever experienced.\nClick hear to visit the band’s website, where you can hear their music and watch videos of them in performance.\nDon’t forget you can book for a pre-concert supper on our events menu!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "There are currently no items in your cart.\nAmericana (Transcribed Scores). By The Offspring. For Bass, Drums, Guitar, Vocal. Hal Leonard Transcribed Scores. Punk Rock and Pop Rock. Difficulty: medium. Complete score songbook. Guitar tablature, standard notation, vocal melody, lyrics, chord names, bass tablature, drum notation, guitar notation legend and bass notation legend. 160 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.672466).\nISBN 0634014986. With guitar tablature, standard notation, vocal melody, lyrics, chord names, bass tablature, drum notation, guitar notation legend and bass notation legend. Punk Rock and Pop Rock. 8.5x11 inches.\nFeatures note-for-note transcriptions in score format for every instrument used on this hit album. Songs include: Americana * The End of the Line * Feelings * Have You Ever * The Kids Aren't Alright * No Brakes * Pay the Man * Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) * She's Got Issues * Staring at the Sun * Walla Walla * Why Don't You Get a Job?. Includes tab and a notation legend. Also available: 00690358 - Guitar Recorded Versions.\nAbout Hal Leonard Transcribed Scores\nTranscribed Scores are vocal and instrumental arrangements of music from some of the greatest groups in music. These excellent publications feature transcribed parts for lead vocals, backup vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass, drums, and all of the various instruments used in each specific recording session. All songs are arranged exactly the way the artists recorded them.\n- Staring At The Sun\n- Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)\n- Have You Ever\n- The Kids Aren't Alright\n- She's Got Issues\n- Walla Walla\n- The End Of The Line\n- No Brakes\n- Why Don't You Get A Job?\n- Pay The Man\n- Feelings (?Dime?)\n- Explain exactly why you liked or disliked the product. Do you like the artist? Is the transcription accurate? Is it a good teaching tool?\n- Consider writing about your experience and musical tastes. Are you a beginner who started playing last month? Do you usually like this style of music?\n- Feel free to recommend similar pieces if you liked this piece, or alternatives if you didn't.\n- Be respectful of artists, readers, and your fellow reviewers. Please do not use inappropriate language, including profanity, vulgarity, or obscenity.\n- Avoid disclosing contact information (email addresses, phone numbers, etc.), or including URLs, time-sensitive material or alternative ordering information.\n- We cannot post your review if it violates these guidelines. If you have any suggestions or comments on the guidelines, please email us.\n- All submitted reviews become the licensed property of Sheet Music Plus and are subject to all laws pertaining thereto. If you believe that any review contained on our site infringes upon your copyright, please email us.\nTell a friend (or remind yourself) about this product. We'll instantly send an email containing product info and a link to it. You may also enter a personal message.\nWe do not use or store email addresses from this form for any other purpose than sending your share email.\nNow you can also view your purchased titles on your iPad with our\nfree Sheet Music Plus Digital Print Viewer app.\nWith Digital Print, you can print from your computer immediately after purchase, or wait until its convenient. And our software installation is easy - we'll guide you through the simple steps to make sure you have Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR and the Sheet Music Plus AIR application on your computer.\nSee all System Requirements for Digital Print\nNote: Our Digital Print items are purchased solely through our website. By purchasing a Digital Print item, you are authorized by the publisher to print out the purchased number of copies for that particular title. Thus, we are unable to fax, mail or email digital titles in any form or file format (including PDF) as it violates copyright law.\nGoogle Chrome Users: The most recent Google Chrome update is not compatible with Adobe AIR. We recommend using an alternate browser (such as Internet Explorer, Safari, or Firefox) in order to download Adobe AIR and print your music.\nDigital Print - Available Instantly!\nIf you have any questions, comments or concerns, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org.\nMore by this Performer: The Offspring Sheet Music The Offspring Voice Sheet Music The Offspring Bass Guitar Tablature Sheet Music The Offspring Drums Sheet Music The Offspring Electric Guitar Sheet Music The Offspring Guitar Tablature Sheet Music The Offspring Percussion Sheet Music\nSeries: Hal Leonard Transcribed Scores", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "320 kbps|130 MB| UL | UA | HF | TB\n“This band swings oh so soulfully! Traditional blues lovers listen up – your blues is here as fresh as ever” Jim Hynes\nYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *\nCopyright © 2011-2018 It's only rock'n'roll All rights reserved.Made with the Ground Floor theme (v2.4) from BuyNowShop.com.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Main / Science / Cubase record what you hear sound\nCubase record what you hear sound\nIm using cubase sx 3. What im trying to do is simply set it up to record what you can hear on an audio track in cubase. I used to have an audigy. I recorded a guitar track through my UR22MKII and I can see it in Cubase (piano roll is there and the levels move when I hit play), but there's no output. This is only my 2nd project, but I was able to play and hear my first. I have a few plugins that produce great sounds when I tweak their parameters a bit (i.e. junglist and energy pro). After trying many times to.\nI am able to route audio into a Cubase track without a problem. I can see the meter moving and hear the guitar in my headphones. But when I. Once selected, you should be able to hear your microphone and/or guitar If this happens, it's imperative to go back and re-record the sound. You are recording MIDI data and not audio, right? By saying you can hear while you play, are you referring to sounds coming from Cubase and.\nDid you try the monitor toggle button on the top right of the audio Make sure you select the input and output in Cubase settings and record. The place to start when exploring Cubase 's signal routing is getting audio into the an audio track that's been assigned to record from a particular input buss. First thing to do is to test your sound card and monitors by playing an MP3 in iTunes/Groove etc, just to check everything is working properly.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Great guitar sound is not as simple as tone or sonic timbre. To be described as great, guitar sound must have dynamics and be alive. It must also possess great articulation and definition and the strings must be highly touch sensitive. Only when a pickup possesses all of these attributes can it be said it's a great feeling and great sounding pickup. Kinmans also have Zero-Hum.\nHere at Kinman that's what we strive for and achieve.\nThe worlds most technically advanced pickups and the best sounding too.\n- First new generation Zero-Hum Stratocaster pickup -Patents 5,668,520 & 6,103,966\n- First to package matched named sets\n- First to engrave model ID etc onto baseplates\n- First new generation Zero-Hum Telecaster pickups.\n- First to eliminate soldering for pickup installs with our unique No-Soldering Harness\n- First new generation Zero-Hum authentic P-90 pickups -Patent applied for\n- First new generation side-by-side Humbuckers -Patent applied for\n- Worlds first hum cancelling non-aged Alnico Strat pickup -Patent Applied for\n- First new generation non-noiseless Single coils (Warriors brand, coming soon)\n- First and only Jazzmaster pickups that have Zero-Hum", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The French production talents of Habstrakt are on display yet again as the producer / DJ delivers an impressive body of work which follows up his original single \"Listen\". Known for crafting an unique style which spans the bass spectrum, Habstrakt's newest release \"Datbooty\" features a very unique trapped out rhythm fueled by various bass knocks, kick drum bursts, and an overall unique dungeon-esque aesthetic taking the listener on a ride you won't be forgetting. Shouts to Habstrakt for breaking 60k Facebook fans and to celebrate he has let us premiere a free download of this track, so don’t miss out on your copy! Enjoy\nThisSongIsSick.com is all about making it easier for you to discover sick new music that you've never heard before. We work with musicians and record labels from all over the world to showcase a variety of the freshest electronic, hip-hop, indie, and alternative music to a global following that is comprised of millions of music lovers in over 110 countries. So, make yourself at home while enjoying countless amazing musicians from a variety of genres and let the sick sounds fill your ears! Read more about our new site.\nGet tipped off of exclusive news, premieres, free downloads and exclusive show announcements (only the good shit)\nWant to get your song on TSIS? Click the button below and follow the instructions in the form", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|\"Kiss You All Over\"|\n|Single by Exile|\n|from the album Mixed Emotions|\n|Label||Warner/Curb Records (US)|\nRAK Records (UK)\n\"Kiss You All Over\" is a 1978 song performed by the group Exile, written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. It was included on the band's album Mixed Emotions, and featured lead vocalist Jimmy Stokley and guitarist J.P. Pennington on vocals.\nOn the American Top 40 broadcast of May 26, 1979, Casey Kasem reported that Chapman stated his source of inspiration for \"Kiss You All Over\" was \"It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me\" by Barry White.\nThe song was a number one single in the United States, but proved to be Exile's only big hit in the pop rock market (they would later have great success on the country music charts). It held the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks (starting September 30), and Billboard ranked it as the No. 5 song for 1978. The song also reached number-one in at least three other nations.\nIn the United Kingdom, the song was released on Mickie Most's RAK Records, and peaked at number 6 in the UK Singles Chart. In this song, a string synthesizer is used. In 2010, Billboard ranked the song ninth on its list of \"The 50 Sexiest Songs Of All Time\".\nLead vocalist on the song Stokley was ousted from the band in 1979, his health declining thereafter until he died at the age of 41 in 1985. The band moved into country music following the synth-pop success of \"Kiss You All Over\" and the 1979 follow-up hit \"You Thrill Me\" (reaching #40 (UK No. 67)) and \"How Could This Go Wrong\", #88 on the charts. \"Take Me Down\" peaked at #3 on the Euro Hit 40 in the mid-1980s.\n|Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)||9|\n|Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)||7|\n|Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)||2|\n|Canada Top Singles (RPM)||2|\n|New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)||1|\n|Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)||4|\n|Netherlands (Single Top 100)||7|\n|Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)||3|\n|UK Singles (Official Charts Company)||6|\n|US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)||19|\n|US Billboard Hot 100||1|\n|West Germany (Official German Charts)||3|\n|US Billboard Hot 100||163|\n|\"Kiss You All Over\"|\n|Single by No Mercy|\n|Released||22 August 1997|\n|Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn|\n|Johnny Vicious, Darrin \"Spike\" Friedman|\n|No Mercy singles chronology|\nThe band No Mercy's 1997 remixed version by Johnny Vicious and Darrin \"Spike\" Friedman reached number-one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. It also reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart and number 47 in Australia.\nBillboard wrote that \"there's no denying that No Mercy's eponymous album is several notches above standard dance/pop fare-as evidenced by this Latin-spiced rendition of Exile's '70s-era hit.\" They noted further that \"The song's hook thrives within FMP's arrangement of swirling house beats and flamenco guitars.\" They also added \"Factor in the act's sweet harmonies\".Music & Media commented that \"This highly successful trio has given this song a poppy-flamenco treatment that is likely to mean it will chart all over the place once again, something that proves that good songs last a long while.\"\n|Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)||13|\n|Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)||43|\n|Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)||20|\n|Germany (Official German Charts)||40|\n|Netherlands (Single Top 100)||30|\n|New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)||44|\n|Scotland (Official Charts Company)||10|\n|Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)||33|\n|UK Singles (Official Charts Company)||16|\n|US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play||1|\nThe song was featured in the films Happy Gilmore, Wild Hogs, Man on the Moon, Employee of the Month, and Zookeeper. It was also used in 2007 on CBC's Hockey Night In Canada during a montage of Stanley Cup celebrations at the conclusion of the final game of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The song closes out the finale of the first season of the Amazon Series Red Oaks. The Exile version of the song also closes episode seven of the Netflix series Mindhunter.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "(b Galgócz, 1857; d Perchtoldsdorf, 1924). Austro-Hung. composér of ballets, notably Der Karneval in Venedig (Vienna, 1900), and operettas of which the best-known is Das Dreimäderlhaus (1916, Vienna) based on Schubert melodies and depicting (mainly fictitious) scenes from Schubert's life. Amer. version arr. Romberg prod. in 1921 as Blossom Time and Eng. version arr. G. H. Clutsam as Lilac Time (1922).\nFrom The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music in Oxford Reference.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As Black Friday approaches, many Hip Hop artists are set to release new music. Fabolous new album on Black Friday, ‘Summertime Shootout 3 Coldest Summer Ever’, will final be released.\nFabolous who recently dropped the first single ‘B.O.M.B.S’ off the new album, reminded everyone that he is back on his bull****. “Back on my bulls***, back to back on my bullsh**. Matter of fact that was bulls***, I’m going back-to-back-to-back on my bulls***. Do it one time, they gon think it’s luck. Got to hit them with the repeat. Do it two times they gon still doubt . Ay, now I gotta repeat.”\nRevealing the back cover and track list for the new album, Fabolous has a star studded lineup on the project. All but three songs of the 16 have features. Two of the three that do not have features could very well be the intro and interlude for the album.\nFabolous who was featured on Meek Mill’s ‘Championships‘ album on the song ‘Uptown Vibes’, is returning the favor. Appearing on the third song of the album on ‘Talk To Me Nicely’, Meek Mill and Fab’s collaboration could very well be the second single for the new album.\nSummertime Shootout 3 cover continues the theme from the two previous releases. Fabolous took to Instagram over the weekend to show fans the official cover.\nFabolous who celebrated his 42nd birthday last week, is currently continuing the celebration in Cuba with his partner Emily Bustamante. The celebrity stylist and shoe designer, has two children with Fab.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Music Pathways - Piano Discoveries C\n(no longer available)\nThis item is no longer available.\nPiano Discoveries C follows books A and B and provides a thorough and well-coordinated approach to beginning keyboard study. While experiencing a wide range of keyboard sounds, students develop reading skills, rhythmic response, and keyboard technique, insuring a smooth and easy progression to more difficult levels and laying the groundwork for practical musicianship. Piano Discoveries C is to be used with Piano Activities C (CFO5111) and Piano Solos C (CFO5112). All books are correlated by chapter. Upon the completion of the three C Books, the student is then ready for the three D Books. The D books complete the Elementary study. General MIDI orchestrations to Piano Discoveries C and Piano Solos C is also available on 3 disks with instructions provided (CFMD6003).\nPublisher: Carl Fischer, Inc., Series: Music Pathways\nPublisher Item #: O5110\nComposer: Lynn Freeman Olson / Louise Bianchi\nInstrument: Piano, Level: Not Graded, Format: Sheet Music\nEnsemble: Piano Solo\nFrequently Purchased Together\nPopular Items from the Music Pathways Series\nThese Items are On Sale Today\nYou May Like These Selections", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mosaic Youth Theatre to hold auditions for 2013-14 season\nTo audition for singing, those interested must sing for a minute without musical accompaniment.\nTo audition for acting, those interested must prepare and memorize a one-minute monologue or read a monologue that they receive at the audition. There is a $5 audition fee per person.\nMosaic’s mission is to empower young people to maximize their potential through professional performing arts training and the creation of first-rate theatrical and musical art.\nAuditions will be held at 7441 Second Ave., Detroit, on the corner of Bethune and Second, one block from the Fisher Building. For more information, visit www.mosaicdetroit.org", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Itsy Bitsy Spider lead sheet\nNo-C-Notes audio music description of The Itsy Bitsy Spider lead sheet. A children’s nursery rhyme. In the key of F major, 6 / 8 time, begins with a pickup measure, followed by 16 measures. Melody with chords. Lyrics is included in the text file. Download zipped file size 4.76 mb contains 3 MP3 tracks and text file.\nThis score is for instructional purposes only of No-C-Notes audio music description and may not be reproduced in any form. It is provided free with grant funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "When she was 11-years-old, Sinclair put together the award winning band All the Little Pieces that combined elements of roots country, rock and blues. Sinclair’s songs eventually headed more solidly into Country/ Americana territory. When the touring cycle wrapped up for the band’s prior release, Sinclair organized a tribute to the Trio album, which set the stage for Barnstormer.\n17-year-old Sinclair co-produced the album with Sean Giovanni at The Record Shop in Nashville and Jason Groves at Sneak Attack in her hometown, Lexington, KY.\nA wandering spirit is key to Sinclair’s musical perspective. “I definitely feel an overwhelming sense of home when I’m on the road. There’s such a sense of freedom in it and I think it’s where I feel most inspired.\n“I hope people know that I can be counted on to share raw emotions, whether it’s heartbreak or joy,” she says. “I just want it to feel as real and intimate to someone listening to the album as it felt to me when I wrote it. My hope is that these songs will speak to people on a soul level. I think it is such a liberating thing when you hear a song that understands you and what you’re going through. That’s always my goal.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Moldovan violinist Kopatchinskaja: 'Art should be alive'\nBy Michael Roddy\nLONDON (Reuters) - Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has already applied her virtuosity to a musical depiction of the Columbia shuttle disaster, down to the sounds of the rockets blasting the doomed craft into space and its disintegration on re-entry.\nThe stunning performance of Hungarian composer Peter Eotvos's 2006 concerto \"seven\" - so named for the seven astronauts who died in the 2003 disaster - was last year's Gramophone magazine recording of the year.\nBut performing a piece that at times seems to require the violin to disintegrate along with the shuttle is not enough for the restless and questing Kopatchinskaja. For her 37th birthday later this month, she will give the premiere of her first violin concerto in Berne, Switzerland.\nIt is dedicated to a friend, the Romanian pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa, who died suddenly a year and a half ago at the age of 33. Her death affected Kopatchinskaja so deeply that she said she got carried away composing the music and is not sure she can play it.\n\"It might be not very realistically written music, it's a utopia,\" Kopatchinskaja who has a penetrating gaze and is as spontaneous in an interview as she is in her concerts, told Reuters over coffee and biscuits at a London hotel. \"It's something that ... shaped itself. It controlled me, I couldn't control what I wrote.\"\nThat intensity and spontaneity is very much a part of a phenomenon sometimes called \"Patkop\" by promoters seeking a shorthand for the unfamiliar Molodovan name of someone who is becoming ever more familiar in music circles.\nDuring a recent visit to London, Kopatchinskaja added another arrow to her quiver by leading, as first violinist, the conductor-less Britten Sinfonia. She won thought-provoking reviews for performances of Brahms, Bartok, Janacek and the Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian.\n\"You can like or dislike her steely, confrontational timbre, her penchant for extremes, her almost pathological impulse to sway, jump, stamp or visually mirror every passing nuance,\" Richard Morrison wrote in The Times. Continued...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It’s Mothers’ Day! The program starts out with several songs dedicated to mothers and then continues with new music from France based on the theme of Prisoners of Love. These songs are about unrequited love, breaking up and others either sad, longing, angry or happy to be gone!\nThe first ½ hour is dedicated to songs about mothers and motherhood. The second ½ hour consists of Cuban songs inspired on cries that peddlers use to sell their merchandise. The last ½ hour presents music from Uruguay; the last 12 minutes include a short story by the Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937).", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "COUNTDOWN TO SHOWDOWN\nIn the 25 days leading up to college football's championship game between No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Alabama at Sun Life Stadium in Miami, the Chattanooga Times Free Press is counting down the traditions and memorable moments involving the Irish and the Crimson Tide. Today is No. 12.\nThe most recognized fight song in college sports, the \"Notre Dame Victory March,\" has been around for more than a century.\nWritten by two brothers who were Notre Dame graduates, Michael and John Shea, the song was copyrighted in 1908. That same year, a piano version complete with lyrics was published.\nNotre Dame's fight song was performed by the university band for the first time on Easter Sunday in 1909 in the rotunda of the university's administrative building. It was first heard at a Notre Dame athletic event in 1919 and first appeared under the copyright of Notre Dame in 1928.\nThe most recited part of the fight song is as follows:\nCheer, cheer for old Notre Dame,\nWake up the echoes cheering her name,\nSend a volley cheer on high,\nShake down the thunder from the sky.\nWhat though the odds be great or small,\nOld Notre Dame will win over all,\nWhile her loyal sons are marching\nOnward to victory.\nIn 1969, when college football celebrated its centennial, the \"Notre Dame Victory March\" was recognized as the greatest fight song. Among the other schools with popular fight songs are Michigan with \"The Victors,\" Southern Cal with \"Fight On\" and Oklahoma with \"Boomer Sooner.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Second round for #Missionmozart\nAt the tender age of nine, Felix Klieser dreamed of being able to play Mozart's horn concertos. While this dream had long since come true, he hesitated for a long time to record the four Horn Concertos in one recording. Only after releasing three successful albums and winning an ECHO Klassik award and the Leonard Bernstein Award did he go to Salzburg, in September 2018, to record them with the famous Camerata Salzburg ensemble. The album will be released on March 1, 2019.\nBut first there is the second foretaste of Klieser's upcoming album: Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, K. 447: II. Romance. Larghetto. Now available on all platforms.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Here’s an alternate take of Keola Beamer’s Mino’aka (Smile), from his awesome Soliloquy album. Soliloquy is one of my favorite Dancing Cat era albums from Keola and a highly recommended listen. Keola’s book is one of the first I picked up when I really delved into the slack key style years ago, and this was one of my favorite songs featured in the book. In fact, I also recommend Keola’s book for beginner to intermediate fingerstyle players who are looking to learn some slack key. Although the version I recorded here is at a slightly faster tempo, I hope it still captures the original’s relaxed feel. Hope you enjoy.\nHere is an early version of my song “Fair Wind,” recorded not long after I wrote it.There is a boat of the same name that ran snorkel / dive cruises to Kealakekua Bay out of Keauhou Bay – still does – and my parents took me and my friends for a cruise on it for a number of my birthdays.\nFor your listening pleasure here is a collection of Ki Ho’alu a/k/a Hawaiian Slack Key guitar instrumentals. This compilation includes both energetic and relaxed tunes, though I’d say the overall vibe is relaxing.I like to listen tosome of those longer “relaxing music” videos while working on the computer and became inspired to produce some videos featuring my own performances.Hope you enjoy.\nHere is a remix of my fingerstyle rendition of Eric Clapton’s Wonderful Tonight.Eric wrote the song about his then-wife Pattie Boyd, who had already inspired great songs from Eric and previous husband George Harrison.This song has been the theme to many a high school prom, and its simple yet tasteful melody has held up over the years.In keeping with that, my arrangement here is fairly straight forward: it doesn’t move around the neck very much or have any unusual chord voicings.Hope you enjoy it.\nHere is an alternate take of my fingerstyle arrangement of Harvest Moon, the titular song from the great early 90’s Neil Young album. In era when some of his peers were merely coasting along, Neil was doing some of his best work. Hope you enjoy.\nMomentum is an original I’ve been playing for a while.Over the years, I have added different bridges and changed the intro at times, but at its core the song remains the same. This version has a new bridge and was recorded on my Taylor K22ce.\nBron-Yr-Aur is probably my favorite Led Zeppelin acoustic song.Written about a tranquil cottage in the Welsh countryside, the song is meditative and bucolic; it always puts me in a different place whenever I hear it or play it.This version was recorded on my Taylor 912ce.\nMomentum is an original I’ve been playing for a while. Over the years, I have added different bridges and changed the intro at times, but at its core the song remains the same. This version has a new bridge and was recorded on my Taylor 912ce.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|MOD Features||Premium Unlocked|\nDo you love listening to music? If you do, there’s a good chance that you use YouTube to do so. After all, it’s one of the most popular platforms for streaming music. Did you know that there’s an APK available that makes using YouTube even better? Keep reading to learn more about it!\nAbout YouTube Music APK:\nYoutube-Music-v5.9.7r48-Unlimited is an APK for downloading YouTube music. This app allows you to listen to YouTube songs offline, no internet is needed!\nIt has a ton of different changes that make using the application even better than just streaming it online! One of the most notable features is that it allows you to use your phone’s memory (instead of the sd card) as storage, which speeds up music playback.\nIf you’re looking for an APK for YouTube music, there are several choices to choose from. However, not all of them are good sources for music. The reason is that some don’t have enough songs or they cost money to download. For that reason, it’s important that you choose a good one.\nThat being said, there are some choices out there that are excellent sources for music. One of them is this YouTube music APK. It can be downloaded for free and its songs are all legal (meaning they’re not pirated). That makes it an excellent option for those of you looking to download music from YouTube.\nOnce you get the APK, it’s easy to install. In fact, most people can do so without any problems. Since this app is a third-party application, it might be blocked by your antivirus (and in some cases, phones). If that happens, you might have to move it to your phone before you’re able to install it.\nThis app does require internet access in order for it to work. That means that songs can’t be downloaded without an internet connection. However, once the song is downloaded, you’ll be able to listen offline!\nIf this sounds like something you’d want on your Android device, all you have to do is follow the link below. Once there, either make a free account or download it for free. After that, you’ll be able to install the APK and start listening!\nThe YouTube music APK has a lot of features that make it excellent for listening to YouTube music. One of these is the ability to download songs, so you can listen to them offline. This is particularly useful if you want to listen without an internet connection!\nOn top of that, this app can be installed on external memory (or sd card). This can help speed up the app’s performance. I also enjoy the fact that it has a free download option for songs.\nThe features of the YouTube music app also include:\n- The ability to listen to music without ads\n- The ability to save music for offline playback\n- The ability to control the volume of music playback\n- The ability to see the lyrics for songs while they are playing\nI’ve been using this app to listen to YouTube for a while now and I have no complaints! In fact, it works even better than other apps I’ve used in the past. That’s why I think you should download the YouTube music APK today!\nAdvantages of YouTube music APK:\n- It’s very easy to use. You don’t need any technical skills or knowledge to play the videos. Just tap on the video, and it will start playing automatically in full screen mode with no ads popping up all over your screen!\n- You can save songs for offline playback anytime you want by downloading them first before closing down the app or playing it again later from where you left off. This is really helpful when there isn’t enough data connection for streaming videos but still wants to enjoy listening to music offline at its fullest potential.\n- You get notified when a song ends so that you won’t miss anything important happening in the live broadcast (if applicable).\nThere are a few disadvantages to the YouTube music app. First, the app can be glitchy and crash frequently. Second, it can be difficult to find specific songs or albums on the app. And third, the app’s interface is not as user-friendly as other music streaming apps like Spotify or Apple Music.\nHowever, despite these disadvantages, the YouTube music app does have some advantages over other music streaming apps. First, it is free to use. Second, it has a massive library of songs and albums. And third, it allows users to listen to music offline without using any data. So overall, the pros outweigh the cons for most people.\nThe mod intro of YouTube music APK is a modification that allows you to customize your app’s interface.\nYou can change the background image, choose from different themes, and much more! There are over 100+ themes available for download on Google Play. Themes come with screenshots as examples so it should be easy enough for anyone to use them without any trouble..\nYou can make this app however you want it to be, which is great for people who enjoy customizing their apps! Why not try something new today?\nThe mod features of YouTube music APK are as follows:\n1. Unlimited Coins and Cash; 2. No Waiting Time for Adverts; 3. Remove The waiting time for the next video in the playlist; 4. Change The sound quality to Normal or Low Quality (Only available on some devices); 5. Unlimited Subscriptions for Premium Accounts; 6 . Add Chromecast functionality to the app – Cast videos from mobile device screen onto large TV screen via Chromecast plugged into HDMI port on the TV, works with Android 4+ & iOS 7+.\nYouTube Music is a music streaming service developed by Google. It allows users to upload their own songs or listen to curated playlists created by professional DJs and musicians. Users can also download songs for offline listening, share tracks via social media, and more.\nThe app has two main features: song searching that provides information about the song such as duration, artist name, etc., along with radio stations where you can choose any track from your collection to play continuously.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "] [Thread Prev\nRe: OT: Hiromi -\nSounds like a female version of Liberace.\n---- Kevin <kevin@TheNettles.com> wrote:\n> Folks wrote:\n> | <stuff>\n> Hiromi's the most technically accomplished jazz pianist since Oscar\n> Peterson and she plays faster (and cleaner) than Art Tatum. When she\n> was 17 she jammed with Chick Corea. And she's the number one jazz\n> artist in Japan. Here's her doing straight jazz piano:\n> About her influences:\n> \"I love Bach, I love Oscar Peterson, I love Franz Liszt, I love Ahmad\n> Jamal,\" she says. \"I also love people like Sly and the Family Stone,\n> Dream Theatre and King Crimson. Also, I'm so much inspired by sports\n> players like Carl Lewis and Michael Jordan. Basically, I'm inspired\n> by anyone who has big, big energy. They really come straight to my\n> That Kung-Fu World Champion piece is just a little karate kata of the\n> keys, if you will. If you play keys you know that you couldn't play\n> that. Ever.\n> Her English website is at:\n> I just found out about her a couple of days ago but she's definitely\n> someone to keep track of. Someone with that much skill, enthusiasm\n> and openness doesn't come around more than a couple of times a century.\n> The Nettles: Progressive and Exciting Celtic Music", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "When Bruce Springsteen asked Patti Scialfa to sing on the E Street Band's world tour, she lost it completely -- her voice, that is.\n\"I had nodes. I went to specialists in New York who told me I could only handle folk music! It was a literal 'You'll never sing again.' But I found a special voice teacher and learned his method. I had to stop talking on the telephone; forget drinking or smoking. When Bruce hired me, I was still in a very bad state and getting hoarse. He didn't know it -- when he heard me, my voice was fine. I didn't talk at the beginning of the tour; I'd go home after shows; I'd sleep all day. And it worked. I got it back, better than ever.\"\nPatti started singing with her brother's band when she was 15, in Oakhurst, N.J. Later she sang on the streets of New York with two girlfriends. \"On a good night we made a hundred apiece.\" Then Patti sang lead vocals for David Sancious, and in 1980 the three girls toured with the Asbury Jukes. She also sang on David Johansen albums. One night, Bruce heard her sing at the Stone Pony.\n\"He came up to me afterward and told me he thought I sang nicely. It was a great moment for me, because I'd had so many disappointments. About a year later he called up and said, 'C'mon over.' I just sat around with Bruce and Roy Bittan and Nils Lofgren and sang casually.\n\"He asked me back a few days later and just said, 'Wanna come out?' The great thing about working with Bruce is, he gives you such acceptance. Inside that, you can regain all your faith.\" Now that the tour is over, Patti has sung backup on the new Rolling Stones record, and she is about to record her first solo album. \"I was 18, taking demos around. I wasn't ready -- then.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sep 29, 2021\nNow we’ve made it to the part of the song where things really start taking off. The figurative “launch pad” that Paco uses to boost the tempo and rhythmic intensity is a technique called alzapúa. With this technique, you will be using your thumb exclusively.\nWatch the lesson video to see in detail how it’s...\nSep 20, 2021\nIn this video lesson for the flamenco guitar, one of our supporters, Yolanda, asks a really good question about the pulgar (thumb), and what to do with it when you are playing in E major.\nQuite often, we tend to rest our thumb on the E string (sixth string) when playing falsetas and chords, but sometimes our thumb can...\nSep 4, 2021\nFor this second lesson of “Danza Mora” for the flamenco guitar, you will be doing an upward arpeggio; it’s called an “upward” arpeggio because the plucking pattern runs toward you (the player).\nThe arpeggio pattern is as follows: a&p-m-i, a-m-i, a-m, with a consistent accent on the a&p.\nThe third and fourth...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I've had this problem since yesterday morning.\nThere are split second bits of other songs randomly disturbing the sound in Spotify - on top of my songs as well when I am not playing anything, just keeping Spotify open.\nThey're too short to even tell which kind of music, just enough to disturb the listening experience. It's a bit like when you used to listen to a badly tuned radio station and other signals tuned in. As much as I value a bit of nostalgia, that's one listening experience I didn't miss.\nIt happens with local data as well as songs streamed via Spotify.\nI've got Spotify free. I've deleted Spotify and re-installed it, no change.\nNo other program's open. I've also made sure it really is a Spotify program - as soon as I log off, it's gone for sure.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jérôme Laran & Michaël Ertzscheid\nAlain Crepin is a Belgian saxophonist, conductor and composer. He did most of his career working for the Belgian army until he reached the rank of Music Chief-Major. \"Céline Mandarine\" was composed for Alain Crepin's daughter, Céline, for her first public audition.\nChoose an instrument\n- Céline Mandarine3:31", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Photo by Michael Mendoza\nProducer and all-around dance music hero Todd Edwards (whose credits include a guest spot on Random Access Memories) has shared a new track called \"Nite Noise\"—his edit of \"White Noise\" which he made as a \"thank you\" to Disclosure. Listen to it above via Brooklyn Vegan.\nHe wrote, \"I made this while traveling by train in the UK on my way to a warehouse party I was playing with Disclosure. It was a personal thank you to them for having me on their lineup.\"\nRead our \"5-10-15-20\" with Edwards.\nWatch Disclosure's full set at Pitchfork Music Festival Paris:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Heather Christie is an American singer-song writer, producer, and dancer. Described as indie-R&B or neo-soul, Heather's sound is likened to artists like Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu, and Norah Jones. Vir grew up in Venice, California. From an early age he was exposed to eclectic musical instruments. In addition to playing guitar, bass, and keyboard, Vir plays world instruments including the sintir and guimbri from Morocco, Djeli Ngoni from Mali, Yali Tanbur from Turkey, a self-created camel-skinned instrument call the \"Arkbass\" and many others. \"Stars That Fall\" is the first collaborative work of Heather Christie and Vir McCoy. It showcases the eclecticism that each of their musical backgrounds brings to the table.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The most beautiful “Ballo in Maschera” I have ever seen!\nThis was a wonderful event. I will attend the entire season.\nI was deeply moved by the setting and cast and intimacy of the venue.\nI highly recommend it.\nI LOVED “The Magic Flute.” I saw it two times.\nAn amazing show yesterday. This company puts on dynamic, thrilling performances that are 100% accessible and engaging. Top quality talent having the time of their lives, and bringing the audience right along with them. I had no idea I loved opera so much!\nThanks, Linda Jackson, for doing all you do.\nLinda, I don’t know if we’ll ever get out to see you on stage again since we live so far away, but our HS concert band’s trip to your show Die Fledermaus ala Salsa (the one that you scheduled specifically for us because there was nothing else going on in Southern California on that night of our trip) is to this day still a vivid memory for the kids in the band! The boy who got up and danced the salsa with you will never live it down – even though he’s a senior this year. The kids all have fond memories and thoughts about opera because they saw a great performance live and up close.\nThank you so much for your commitment to the arts!\nAbraham Fabella is a performer, composer, and conductor who is at home in many styles of music from opera and Renaissance motets to jazz and contemporary art music.\nHe is in high demand as a vocal coach and collaborative pianist for singers, choruses, and instrumentalists in the Greater Los Angeles and San Diego areas. He made his debut with Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera conducting Strauss’s Die Fledermaus. Currently the Music Director for both LA Met and Black Tie Opera, he has also worked with various groups including Riverside Lyric Opera, Repertory Opera Company, Celestial Opera Company, Pacific Lyric Association, Casa Italiana Opera, and Opera Wednesdays La Jolla. Among the many shows he has directed are Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Un ballo in maschera, Don Carlo, Aida, Madama Butterfly, La Bohéme, Hansel and Gretel and a concert reading of the musical play, Limberlost, by Helen Slayton-Hughes and Dana Howell.\nAs both composer and performer, Mr. Fabella has won many accolades. His compositions have been performed by Vox Novus New York, Schola Cantorum San Francisco, the UCR Orchestra, and the SFCM New Music Ensemble. His music is published by Yelton Rhodes and can be heard on the CD “In the City at the Night,” music for solo English Horn. As a pianist, he has won top prizes at the Redlands Bowl Young Artist Auditions and the Vera Yin Sheng Piano Competition, and, in 1996, was invited to play Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra in Beijing, China.\nA church musician with twenty years of experience, Mr. Fabella is in his eighth year as organist and choirmaster of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Riverside. Previously, he has served Episcopal, Methodist, and Lutheran churches throughout California.\nMr. Fabella received a M.Mus. in Music Composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a M.A. in Music from the University of California, Riverside. He received his undergraduate degree from La Sierra University. He has studied composition with Byron Adams and Conrad Susa, and piano with Kimo Smith and Hellen Juman. He is a member of the American Guild of Organists, ASCAP, the College Music Society, the Music Teachers’ Association of California, and AFM Local 47.\nMr. Fabella lives and maintains a teaching studio in the city of Moreno Valley. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, meditation, poetry and collecting musical instruments.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Recently Added Videos\nTim Callobre Performance\nAustin Goodwin, Robbie Moore, & Ida Saki Performance\nThe Upper Anacostia – Lower Gold Coast Symphonic: DRUMS ALONG THE POTOMAC–A Global Go-Go Fantasia Performance\nListen Local First Presents Drop Electric Performance\nSmithsonian Jazz Masterworks Quintet Performance\nGuitarist and composer O’Donel Levy has played with a who’s who of blues, jazz, and soul, including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, and Jimmy McGriff, and has written songs for Sarah Vaughn and Herbie Mann.\nPlease login to comment", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It Is very difficult to define jazz because It has so many varieties. Almost all Jazz styles have improvisations and swing feeling. Improvisation means compose and perform at the same time. Four ingredients that help music swing are steady beat, syncopation, lilting quality, and rising and falling of the melodic line. Charles Mining was a jazz bassist known for his composing and improvising. Dizzy Gillespie was a modern Jazz trumpeter who devised a highly syncopated style of improvising. Jazz musicians usually begin laying a tune they all know and then they make up their own music.\nChapter 2 Jazz musicians follow common practices while performing tunes such as the 12-bar blues and the A-A-B-A construction. The melody In a tone Is played before and after the Improvisation Is played. Rhythm section Is the part of a jazz combo that provides the accompaniment for the soloist. Chorus: Single paying through of the structure being used to organize the music In an Improvisation. Bridge: The B part of and A-A- composition. Walking bass: A bass note per beat. Coming: Syncopated chording accompaniment for an improvised solo. Chapter 3 New Orleans was the ideal site for the birth of Jazz because it was an intensely musical city.\nAfrican American music such as blues and ragtime blended with European dance music and church music. Ragtime: A popular turn of the 20th century style of written piano music involving pronounced syncopation. Blues: A style of African American song, originally consisting of a vocal with guitar accompaniment that often expresses a lonesome or sad feeling. Creole of color: A person who has mixed French and African ancestry and was born In the New World. Scott Joplin was he most Important ragtime composer. Chapter 4 Collective improvisation: Simultaneous improvisation by all members of a group together.\nStride: Left hand style used by early Jazz pianist. Front line: Musicians appearing directly in front of the audience. James P Johnson was the greatest of all stride style pianists. Fats Waller was the most popular Jazz pianists-composes of the 1 sass and ass. Louis Armstrong was one of the first great soloist in Jazz history. He played trumpet. Big Bedecked was the first cool Jazz musician. Bessie Smith was the empress of the Blues. Chapter 5 Call and response: A technique In which one section states a theme as a question and another answer It. Rhythm guitar style: Guitarist strumming one chord on each beat.\nBreak: Portion of a piece in which all band members stop plying except the one extemporaneously that wasn’t written down. Roy Elderly was the most daring trumpeter of the sass. Coleman Hawkins was the father of the Jazz tenor saxophone. Scat singing: Improvisation using the human voice. Billie Holiday was the most influential singer in Jazz after sass. Chapter 6 Bebop differed from swing by using smaller bands, richer chords, and faster playing. Asymmetrical accent: An accent that falls in an unexpected Bomb: A pronounced accent played by the drummer, often dropped in an unexpected place.\nMax Roach was the leading bebop drummer. Charlie Parker was the most significant saxophonist of the twentieth century and an inventor of bebop. Theologies Monk was the first bebop composer and pianist. Bud Powell was the most influential bebop pianist. Dexter Gordon was the first bebop tenor saxophonist. Chapter 7 West Coast Jazz: The Jazz style associated with Dave Bruce, Paul Despond, Gerry Mulligan, and Chew Baker during the sass, often applied to classify cool Jazz by California-based white musicians. Progressive Jazz: A term coined by Stan Kenton to describe his own music.\nLeonie Tristan was a pianist-composer who invented a modern Jazz alternative to the bebop style of Bud Powell. Baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and trumpeter Chest Baker were distinguished for their dry, subdued approach to modern Jazz. Count Basis and Lester Young were important influences on the cool Jazz style. Chapter 8 Hard bebop evolved directly from bebop during sass, mainly among East Coast and Midwest musicians. Hard bebop differs from bebop by having more variety in accompaniment patterns, fewer pop tune chord progressions, and more emphasis on hard swinging.\nHorace Silver was the leading pianist-composer bandleader in hard bebop. Clifford Brown was the favorite trumpeter for most Jazz musicians of the sass. Freddie Hubbard was the most imitated trumpeter of the sass. John Coloration was the most influential saxophonist since Charlie Parker. West Montgomery was the most influential guitarist in modern Jazz. Chapter 9 Free Jazz: An approach associated with Ornate Coleman and Cecil Taylor, in which the music contains improvised solos which are free of preset chord progressions, and moieties also free of preset meter.\nModal Jazz: Jazz improvisation based on a mode (or scale) rather than on chord changes. Floating pulse: A method of improvising that avoids stressing the most obvious beats, while extending phrases across several beats, pioneered by Bill Evans; also called non-obvious pulse. Ornate Coleman was the best-known free Jazz musician. Bill Evans was the most influential pianist of the sass. Chapter 10 Jazz-rock: A variety of styles beginning in the late sass that use Jazz improvisation, electric instruments, funk rhythm section accompaniments; also known as fusion music.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Queen will rock the Royal Arena - Copenhagen on 01 Jul 2020\nTickets for Queen concerts are traditionally in high demand among fans. Do you want to visit Queen concert in Copenhagen, ?\nWe provide a unique opportunity to purchase Queen tickets for the concert in Copenhagen, at Royal Arena - Copenhagen. Queen Copenhagen concert is one of the brightest events of the year!Queen Copenhagen concert will give you a lot of emotions and unforgettable impressions. We will help you realize this dream, see Queen live, giving you a great chance to buy best Queen concert tickets.\nQueen concert will take place on 01 Jul 2020 in Denmark, Copenhagen, at Royal Arena - Copenhagen. Do not miss your chance to get Queen Copenhagen tickets for concert, which will take place at Royal Arena - Copenhagen", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Release Date: April 1, 2010\nBUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Chita Rivera: My Broadway on May 4 at 8 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre, Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.\nThe two-Time Tony Award-winner will perform songs from her legendary Broadway career, accompanied by an 11-piece orchestra, led by musical director Michael Croiter, including numbers from West Side Story (\"America\"), Sweet Charity (\"Where Am I Going?\" and \"Big Spender\"), Chicago (\"All That Jazz\" and \"Nowadays\"), Kiss of the Spider Woman, Bye, Bye, Birdie and The Rink, and featuring the music of Leonard Bernstein, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Charles Strouse, Stephen Sondheim and Cy Coleman.\nAn accomplished and versatile actress, singer and dancer who has won two Tony Awards as best leading actress in a musical (Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Rink), she has received seven additional Tony nominations. Rivera has performed her critically acclaimed concert dates in major cities worldwide. In 2009, she released a new solo studio CD titled And Now I Swing (Yellow Sound label), which pays homage to her stage legacy while also displaying her passion for jazz. From classic theater songs to jazz standards, all tracks featured on this new album have received new arrangements recorded by New York's finest musicians, reimagining some of Chita's favorite tunes.\nShe recently starred in the Broadway and touring productions of The Dancer's Life, a dazzling new musical celebrating her spectacular career, written by Terence McNally and directed by Graciela Daniele. Last year she recreated her starring role in The Visit, the new Kander/Ebb/McNally musical at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va., (originally done at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago in 2001) for which she received the 2009 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. Rivera received The Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2009 and also received the coveted Kennedy Center Honor in Washington, DC, in 2002, and was the first Hispanic ever chosen to receive this award.\nShe also starred in the revival of the Broadway musical Nine with Antonio Banderas. She trained as a ballerina from age 11 before receiving a scholarship to the American School of Ballet from legendary George Balanchine. Rivera's first appearance, at age 17, was as a principal dancer in Call Me Madam. Her electric performance as Anita in the Broadway premiere of West Side Story (1957) brought her stardom, which she repeated in London. Her career is highlighted by starring roles in Bye Bye Birdie, Chicago, Jerry's Girls and (original Broadway casts) Guys and Dolls, Can-Can, Seventh Heaven and Mr. Wonderful. On tour: Born Yesterday, The Rose Tattoo, Call Me Madam, Threepenny Opera, Sweet Charity, Kiss Me Kate, Zorba, Can-Can with The Rockettes.\nBroadway programming at the Center for the Arts is sponsored in part by Center for Plastic Surgery.\nTickets for Chita Rivera: My Broadway are $39.50, $31.50 general admission and $25 for students (any school). Tickets are available at the Center for the Arts Box Office from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and at all Ticketmaster locations, including ticketmaster.com. To charge tickets, call 1-800-745-3000; in Canada, call 416-870-8000. For group sales, call 716-645-6771. For more information call 716-645-2787.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It is said that every person has a special gift to share with the world and it’s each person’s job to find their gift.\nAmber Yholeata knows her gift, she has no doubt that her purpose is music and she’s on a mission to share her voice with the world.\nYholeata, a Chester transplant, is a native of the area and grew up in Petersburg. “Lived here all my life and I’ve been singing just about the whole time,” she shared. “I could practically sing before I could talk.”\nShe believes that “music means everything.” Yholeata believes music is a language unto itself and points out all the music that guides people and teaches them about life.\n“Music is therapy, it’s a connection,” she said. “Music is like a smile understood in any language and it breaks down barriers.” It’s the reason she feels so strongly that making music is her calling.\n“I do it my way,” she added. “I want to inspire change through music and be remembered for what I’ve shared.” She believes music makes a positive impact and while she wants to be a star alongside the likes of Madonna or Lady Gaga, Yholeata wants her lasting impact to be remembered in the mission of the music. “I’d like to make an impact on children, help end world hunger and stay true to myself, just stay humble,” she mused.\nYholeata strives to be unique to present a fascinating and entertaining show. While looking for her own unique brand, she struck upon a white headpiece in keeping with the showmanship of Lady Gaga and Cher. She hopes the white hair will “represent enlightenment and brightness in my music.” As a big fan of the ‘80s music styles, she thinks the wild light hair is fitting her happy, optimistic outlook on her music. Her belief is that all artists “have their own theme — I want to establish my look as the girl with the two tone hair and remembering the white hair for light and brightness.”\nMusic offers have been coming. Yholeata has been scouted and had an offer from a major recording label. She spent some time out on the coast working with a label and hopes the perfect offer is just around the corner. She admits, “I still have lots to learn about my voice and my range and what I can do.”\nShe writes her own lyrics and has composed at least 20 songs. She has produced one album, Forever, featuring an original score, Thursday Mornings, a song about striving to be better. The song she recounts is about “everyone’s yearning to grow and to escape their boredom and wanting to be more.” Forever is available on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Forever/dp/B0050S96PM/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=13210... .\nShe’s toured in states including North Carolina, DC, New York, California and Maryland.\nThe next big project on Yholeata’s plate is her second album. She’s already in the studio recording her pieces to include on the album and she’s very excited about her newest piece, So What. Yholeata thinks this might be her biggest breakout song.\nHer style is a little bit rock, a little bit rhythm and blues and a bit of jazz — Yholeata says it’s alternative rock but her smoky, natural voice has a unique, deeply touching magical element, one that gives her that star talent. She says her music is a little bit “pop and blues.” When she belts out a tune the room can feel her natural energy and her upbeat messages of hope, determination and sheer love of the music. “Singing is such a good feeling — it’s all-encompassing,” she gushed. She feels as an artist it’s her job to transform people’s lives and works hard to do that with her music.\n“Life in general is creative,” Yholeata said. “I’m on a mission to be your musical storyteller and hoping everyone looks at music in a different way.” She’s bringing her own brand to music and sharing a soulful sound. She is well aware, at her young tender age, that she’s got lots to learn and dues to pay. “I know it’s going to take hard work, determination, dedication and sacrifice,” she said. When she smiles her sweet Virginia girl smile and adds, “It’s all possible.”\nYholeata can be seen belting out the tunes Saturday night at The Martini Lounge at 1911 W. Main Street in Richmond. She currently performs with the band there every Saturday night.\nPerformances of some of Yholeata’s pieces can be viewed on YouTube.com, keyword Amber Yholeata, purchased at iTunes, CD Baby at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/AmberYholeata , Amazon. She has a fan page on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/OfficialAmberYholeata  and her Website is www.AmberYholeata.com . To help the artist with donations, go to Feed the Muse at http://www.feedthemuse.net/artistsearch.php?txtsearch=amber+yholeata&sea... .\nYholeata keeps her goals humble. She knows she’s going to have to work hard for her art and she wants “to have a positive impact and inspire others.” Her plan is to stay grounded through her music. Her advice, “Shine your light; don’t dim your light.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rehearsal Location :Denton St John Ambulance, Taylor Lane, Denton, Manchester M34 3NG\nRehearsal Time : Every Wednesday night between 7 pm and 8:15 pm\nFact: Learning to play a brass instrument is not easy and takes time and patience\nSo why bother ?\nTraditionally the UK has a very strong tradition of producing some of the top brass bands in the world, such as The Fodens band and The Black Dyke Band. Learning to play brass opens access to instruments of a wide variety from a small cornet to a large tuba. In addition to being able to play in a brass band, players can also choose to play a variety of musical styles such as orchestral, jazz, swing and big band music amongst others. Musical abitility is also examined at GCSE and A-Level, and a good musical grounding can make these examinations considerably easier.\nThe Denton Brass Training Band is an environment for new players to learn music. We have a mixed “Family” group of musicians at the moment of different ages, (6-75) and abilities\nWe welcome anyone who has the inclination to play a brass instrument from the ages of 6 at any level, to come along and have a go!\nMain features of the band include:\nFor a membership of £2.50 per week you can learn how to play music.\nOur team of tutors will guide you through playing a brass instrument free of charge.\nLessons focus on the basics of music, theory, performance and ensemble playing.\nWe also have 4 Denton Brass Music Stages, (with certificates) to work towards, so that the musician has a basic grounding in playing a brass instrument. This allows the individual to then have the basics to progress to Associated Board Grades.\nThe Training Band work towards performing concerts throughout the year providing players with the experience of playing to the public.\nIn time as your ability improves you will be given the opportunity to play in the senior band and be welcomed into the world of banding!!!\nFor additional information feel free to contact the band through the Contact us page, or contact Gordon Griffiths direct on 07941 317484\nThe band has a Child protection policy and Senior tutors have Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks (previously CRB checks).", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Looking for a DJ that can add something special to your\nevent that is passionate about the music from the\nclassics to current hits contact DJ Gino.\nDigital music playback from huge music library. A DJ that works for you and plays the music you want to hear. Ready to take music requests from guests.\nMake Your Event Memorable select DJ Gino.\nProfessional DJ Service For All Occasions.\nLarge diverse music library: 80''s, 90''s, Old School, Line Dance, Motown 60''s & 70''s, Philly Soul, R&B, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Go-Go, Country, Classic/Modern Rock", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Search Results for: vocal exercises for actors\nVocal Exercises For Actors\nThis page has many articles about vocal exercises for actors\nVocal Exercises For Actors Articles\nVocal Warm Ups | Essential Voice Exercises for Actors\nA useful guide to vocal warm ups. Practical, step by step information to help actors and singers with vocal warm ups. Voice for actors.\nVocal warm up - Wikipedia\nA vocal warm-up is a series of exercises that prepare the voice for singing, acting, or other use. There is very little scientific data about the benefits of vocal ...\n3 Ways to Exercise Your Voice - wikiHow\nHow to Exercise Your Voice. If your profession requires you to speak or sing a lot, then you may find that your voice becomes tired very easily. By ...\n10 Warming Up Exercises Voice Actors Must Include in Their ...\nWhen you’re looking forward to making your career in voice acting, it is important to warm up your voice before you start your practice sessions. This is because if ...\nVocal Warm-Up #1: Breathing - YouTube\nThis is the first of four films demonstrating how to warm up your voice, focusing on breathing exercises. Breathing exercises are an essential start to any ...\nETO Peter Brook Rehearsal Exercises\nExercises from Director Peter Brook . In a reaction to Realism, some artists like Peter Brook or the Living Theatre, deemphasized the realism of theatre.\nActors Basic Training 101 for all actors - Brian Heath\nFor your donation of 1 dollar or more we will send via email you our 19 page ACTING 101 manual. It is the same guide we use in our acting coach workshops for kids ...\n4 Ways to Become a Vocal Coach - wikiHow\nHow to Become a Vocal Coach. Vocal coaches play an undeniable role in making others successful in the music industry. Vocal coaches are music trainers, counselors and ...\nSLW The Voice Whisperer Steven Luke Walker, Vocal Coach ...\nSLW The Voice Whisperer Steven Luke Walker, Vocal Coach/Composer. Steven has had the pleasure of coaching talents like SAMANTHA BARKS GINA BECK HELENA BLACKMAN LUCIE ...\nDiction Exercises - Tongue Twisters to Learn How to Speak ...\nDiction Exercises: learn how to speak clearly with the best of tongue twisters.\nVocal Exercises For Actors Images\nAd Blocker Detected\nOur website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors. Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Arts Umbrella is a not-for-profit arts education centre for children and youth ages 2 to 19.\nArts Umbrella is committed to delivering the highest quality visual and performing arts education to young people, regardless of their socio-economic circumstances.\nSince its inception by five young artistic parents in 1979 with only 45 students, Arts Umbrella has maintained a... more\nArts Umbrella is a non-profit centre, located on Granville Island, that has provided arts education for kids between the ages of 2 and 19 for almost 30 years. Classes range from film making, photography, sculpture, architecture, and visual arts, to dance, acting, and theatre. They have more than 260 classes a week at their Granville Island location! They also do outreach to the community so... more", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Jesus encountered skeptical Jewish worshipers in the Jerusalem temple. In this moment, He reveals another key to assurance for us: intimacy. “My sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me.” Disciples develop voice recognition. They know the timbre and the tone and the sound and the content of the Shepherd’s voice. Assurance for final things develops as we hear and follow now. The trust that in the end we will not perish, as He promises, comes from responding to His directions and seeing His instructions bear fruit and bring blessing in our daily living. We come to sense His voice will not let us down, and our intimacy with Him cannot be broken.\nIs your relationship with the Shepherd intimate?\nDo you have voice recognition?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "People have told me I have a talent for working with students of all ages. I have a way of tuning the material down or up to the appropriate level. After many years of teaching and helping students understand concepts that seem difficult at first, I have learned to simplify the explanations, break difficult tasks into smaller steps, and demonstrate clear methods. Also, I am careful to watch and listen to the student to determine where he or she might be stuck. This one-on-one tutorial method can provide just the right needed information to allow the student to suddenly make remarkable progress.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Ramon Foster plays for the Pittsburg Steelers.\nNFL player Ramon Foster played for Tennessee.\nRamon Foster is 6' 6\".\nRamon Azeez plays as a Midfielder for Nigeria.\nRamon Cabrera is a catcher for the Detroit Tigers.\nRamon Santiago is a short stop for the Cincinnati Reds.\nRamon Flores is a left fielder for the New York Yankees.\nRamon Sessions plays point guard for the Milwaukee Bucks.\nRamon Foster is number 73 on the Pittsburg Steelers.\nRamon Humber plays Line Back for the New Orleans Saints.\nRamon Foster was born on January 7, 1986, in Henning, Tennessee, USA.\nAs of the end of the 2013-2014 NFL season Ramon Foster is 28 years old.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Here’s one like (very) few others! A full-scale theatre production opening in New York Harbor!\nThe Mabou Mines Theatre Company, apparently well known for its fearless experimentation, has just mounted a show on a specially fitted multi-story 90-foot barge. Complete with actors, musicians and two 28-foot towers, the performance takes place before an audience on deck chairs watching intently from ashore.\nIntended as a celebration of New York City, at the heart of Songs of New York is five poems, each written for a different borough of the city and sung by actors to an original composition performed by musicians … all on board the barge.\nAnyone interested in the logisitical nightmare involved in mounting not just any old theatre show, but one coordinatiing everyone from the police to the coast guard, then have a look at this fasicnating behind-the-scenes article from the New York Times, just prior to opening night.\nNewpaper article/s linked to from this post may require free registration for viewing.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Announcing the 2016 BCAF timeline!\nFestival: September 7-11\nSubmissions open April 29\nThe 2015 Boston Comedy Arts Festival covers multiple stages and brings together internationally-renowned improv, sketch, and standup comedy acts. ImprovBoston proudly produces the festival, offering performance and training opportunities, as well as the chance to nurture creative comedy endeavors and build bonds of friendship.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "View All Applications\nThe New DWX-52DCi\nThe New CAMM-1 GR Series Cutters\nBringing Education, Inspiration and Support to You\n30 Years of Business in Australia\nUp to $5,000 Cash Back\nThere are no workshops currently scheduled.\nPlease check Roland Academy for more information.\nThere are no MIC events currently scheduled.\nPlease check back soon for updated lists and information.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I don't think slowing them down is the answer.\nFor building muscle, I think you need to get tricky. Bryce Lane's \"B-Circuit\" concept might be useful.\nFor those who don't know, a B-circuit consists of:\n1. Explosive, short range movement (jumps for height)\n2. Full range explosive movemetns (squat, then jump for height)\n3. Deliberate, \"tensed\" slow movement (air squat with you actively engaging the muscles to pull yourself down and to resist going back up)\nEven those bodyweight masters, gymnasts, don't get all that big or heavy, and they do the big dog of bodyweight exercises. I think you hit a point, sometimes very quickly, where you need to add some kind of external resistance.\nIt's kind of a \"right tool for the job\" thing. Bodyweight exercises will work for a while, especially for those not used to doing them", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Songs ex boyfriends dating your best friend\nSometimes we’d record songs from other cassette tapes, and sometimes we’d wait for our favorite song to play on the radio. In fact, I spent three days on this list (which I thought would only take me about three minutes).\nGrammer files lawsuit demanding her ex-boyfriend to pay 25,000 Anna See my ex - Dating a friends girlfriend. And the woman hes going out with is a friend of a friend.. Wow I am so sorry Hanna, this must be really really hard. do not do the things you used to do when you were dating.\nI suggest picking out a good set of songs from the list and stringing them in some kind of chronological order.\nFor instance, you can have a couple of songs that describe how you felt when you first met your boyfriend, a few songs that describe what it felt like when you were falling in love, and a few songs that describe your undying devotion to him now.\nThe greatest thing about music is that even though people might be listening to the same song, each person has a different meaning they attach to it while they’re listening to it.\nI think I have a song for every love of my life, and even now, when I hear any of those songs, I feel those old emotions pulling at me.\nDating Tips Column written from a mans perspective for women seeking.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "\"Adequate sound volume for a nice listening experience. .\"\n\"Sound good in high volume also\"\n\"Not a high volume but at law volume good clarity of voice. all over good performance.\"\n\"According to it's volume it is good for small room about 10' x10' in size.\"\n\"Good sound quality but less volume level.\"", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I LOVE this song for so MANY reasons.\nWe have to all remember all of the good things in our lives,\nall of the blessings we have and appreciate everyone we have in our lives.\nSmile at everyone; make the best of your days.\nYou never know what others are going through…\nYOU could make a difference and not ever know it.\nHugs & Kisses from The Stein Family", "label": "No"}
{"text": "From Our Editors\nMartial arts at Brookfield's Brookfield is a great workout that will leave you feeling Zen. Their MMA instructors will leave you breathless and looking like a whole new you. Kickboxing offers a full-body workout as well as a useful self-defense skill.\nParking is plentiful, so patrons can feel free to bring their vehicles.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tangle, in association with MAST Mayflower Studios, is proud to present a radical and electrifying new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Richard The Second performed in its distinctive Southern African Township theatre style.\nWith an original score of Zimbabwean music and song, Tangle’s new multicultural production offers a fast, powerful and fresh take on this state of the nation play, while celebrating the excellence of globally talented artists whose multi-national voices are at the centre of the work.\nRichard The Second continues Tangle’s long-term commitment to championing African Caribbean artistic excellence, presenting classic plays in new and surprising ways to audiences of all kinds.\nAge: Suggested minimum 12+\nPresented in association with MAST Mayflower Studios", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "I really like the voice that repeats your voice commands back to you on the iPhone. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this voice is included as one of the voices on Mac OS X. Does anyone know if this voice is available (3rd party or otherwise) for use on Mac OS X?\nApparently this voice is Nuance \"Samantha\" and is also used by Siri and perhaps Ford Sync:\nYou can get this voice in Mac OS X Lion by following these steps:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Chickenshed Theatre, 290 Chase Side, Southgate, London, N14 4PE\n020 8292 9222\n£6 per session / £31.50 for block b\n27-Apr-13 to 6-Jul-13\nSat, 10am, 11.15am, Running time: 60mins\n5 years to 12 years\nSaturday Shed is a great opportunity for young people aged 5 - 12 years old (from School Year 1) to develop their performance skills using our proven teaching methods and unique performance style.\nLed by our highly experienced and energetic staff, each term, participants will explore a wide range of performance skills through themed sessions that involve movement, drama, singing and story making. Every workshop is different and designed so that a child of any ability can come to all sessions, or drop in to one session from time to time.\nTimes and prices are subject to change. Contact venue before setting out.\nPlease login first.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Training Camp 2013!\nView Single Post\n01-14-2013, 12:48 PM\nJoin Date: Jun 2004\nOriginally Posted by\nProblem with Pirri is he showed no desire to attempt to play defense\nYou say this about a number of players. It isn't true. He's not very good at it and he cheats to create offense, but that's true of a number of players in this league.\nView Public Profile\nFind More Posts by DisgruntledHawkFan", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Gaston Machin is an Argentine football midfielder currently playing for Independiente.\nMachin is a product of the famous youth system at Argentinos Juniors, he made his senior debut for the club in 2002. In 2004 he was part of the squad that earned promotion to the Argentine Primera.\nMachin played for Argentinos in the Primera until the end of 2005 when he signed for Independiente for the beginning of the Clausura 2006 tournament.\nFootball-Lineups player profile\nThis article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Gaston Machin", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Our popular Rainbow Sounds Level 1 Crystal Singing Bowls Workshops is coming to Caloundra Sunshine Coast on 26th Nov 2022\nWe invite to learn and explore the wonderful world of crystal singing bowls with our Rainbow Sounds Certified Educator Sarah Bown in Caloundra Sunshine Coast ✨\nLocation: The Farm – 14 Sattler Rd, Meridan Plains\nDate: Saturday, 26th November 2022 (10am – 2pm)\nFacilitator: Sarah Brown from Soul Breath Movement\n(Certified Rainbow Sounds Educator & Stockist)\nSuitable for beginners or if you want to refresh your skills and knowledge.\nJoin us for a fun interactive half-day workshop to learn all about crystal singing bowls! Learn basic techniques, the benefits of sound healiong, which mallets to use, the 7 chakra energy centres, musical notes, sound journeys as well as the science, brainwaves and frequency. You'll also learn practical applications and mindfulness techniques, as well as homework to practice at home with your new crystal singing bowls.\nThis class is also suitable for Yoga Teachers, Reiki Practitioners and Wellness Practitioners who wants to add crystal singing bowls to your healing modality. Plus get a free Rainbow Sounds crystal singing bowl to take home!\nAfterpay is available for all our workshops 💖\nAll attendees receive a 'Certificate of Completion' at the end of the workshop", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Napa Senior Activity Center, NapaDescription Join us for a tour of the California State Capitol in beautiful downtown Sacramento. Take a tour of the Capitol and museum. See the numerous artifacts as well as the Capitol at work...\nCotati sacramento activities events\nThursday, Apr 10 8:00a\nFriday, May 2 10:00a\nSaturday, Apr 19 9:00a\nSacramento Westlake Community Park, Sacramento2014 Spring Break Soccer Skills Camp Sponsored by Kombat Soccer and Sacramento GOLD April 14 - 18 Session 1: U8 Boys-Girls 9:00 Am - 11:00 AM Session 2: U10-U14 Boys-Girls 12 PM - 2:00 PM Open For ...\nCotati sacramento activities Related Topics\narts & crafts | community | business & tech | dance | fairs & festivals | food & dining | music | performing arts | sports & outdoors | visual arts | other | comedy | shopping | holiday | education/campus | holiday | sacramento events 2/27 | life in color | sacramento downtown events | grand opening | camp | local | dance events in sacramento | symphony hall san francisco | wedding fairs | convention center in sacramento | children's activities | earth day | brunch | art gallery reception | xxxvxx | comedy | run or dye fun run sacramento | sacramento +\"the producers\" | bingo\nDon't Miss This\nHot Tickets More »\nON SALE NOW\nThu 3/20 6:00p\nThu 3/13 6:30p\nMon 3/24 3:00p\nWed 3/12 3:00p", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Lerner, ElkhartA Broadway musical by Stephen Schwartz.\nNotre Dame performing arts events\nThursday, Jun 13 7:30p\nSaturday, Sep 14 7:30p\nBarn Swallow Theatre, EdwardsburgBarn Swallow Theatre presents “A Sampling of Original Playwrights”. From a great number of submissions, four plays have been selected by the New Play Committee...\nThursday, Jun 13 12:00p\nBuchanan Common, BuchananStoryteller who juggles\nSaturday, Aug 3 7:00p\n2013 ArtsEverywhere Performing Arts Series: Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival’s Young Company presents \"A Comedy of Errors\"\nSaturday, Jul 27 7:00p\n2013 ArtsEverywhere Performing Arts Series: IUSB’s Raclin School of the Arts presents \"The Wizard of Oz\"\nSaturday, Jul 20 7:00p\nNotre Dame performing arts Related Topics\nballet | cabaret & revue | community theater | literary arts | musicals | opera | poetry | puppetry | street performance | symphony | theater | free | live music and mishawaka | around the bend | artseverywhere | around the bend south bend | in the bend events south bend | mishawaka live music | community events south bend | live music in mishawaka | events in south bend | in the bend | performing arts south bend | six xxx", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Call me Star-Lord (Or Mr. Quill, if you prefer ).\nQuick background: I’ve been a fan of Fire Emblem for a very long time. The series was my go-to series for a long time. When I was growing up I managed to get a bunch of my friends to play Sacred Stones/Tellius games (Finding a FE7 cart was a little too difficult at the time lol) and I thought I was the coolest shit for figuring out how to play fan translations of the older titles. My interest sort of waned when Awakening and Fates came out unfortunately, but I still played them. Also played Black Eagles!Three Houses and enjoyed it. Unfortunately I just sort of lost the spark and felt I wasn’t enjoying the titles like I used to.\nAs a very responsible person who would never procrastinate responsibilities I decided to play FE4 on a complete whim a few weeks back. It’s like I completely fell back in love with Fire Emblem again. I’m having fun again. I’m working my way through Thracia 776 and I’ll probably play titles I didn’t care for the first time like Awakening/Fates again.\nOf course now that I love Fire Emblem again I have to engage with the community/fandom. I played MK404’s FE7 reskin back in the day and used to play around with Nightmare modules and I’m amazed at the progress you’ve all made! Hacking seems so much more accessible now and maybe one day when I have the time/energy I’ll make my own. Until then I’m happy to play as many hacks as I can (Doing a IronMan of Vision Quest and enjoying it).\nThank you if you read all this and looking forward to engaging with you all.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Strength Training Through Yoga\nYoga incorporates your body weight to strengthen by movement instead of external objects like dumbbells. This culmination of body science and mobility to strengthen your body is magical. Strength training through yoga has an added advantage of improving muscle flexibility, which helps you avoid injuries. The complex movements bring balance and movement that are vital for strengthening your body.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The VarimaxRotation type exposes the following members.\nThe number of iterations performed by the algorithm.\nThe number of iterations performed by this algorithm will not exceed this number.\nShould Kaiser normalization be performed. If\nTolerance for convergence criteria. Iteration stops when the relative change in the sum of the singular values is less than this number.\nThe transformation, or roation, matrix used to perform the rotation.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Music is the art of arranging sound in time via the elements of harmony, rhythm, and pitch. It is a universal cultural realm of all human societies. The ai music incorporates these elements as well as the diverse characteristics of a musical sound.\nVarious styles and kinds of music have distinct characteristics. For instance, some music features only vocal techniques or instrumental tools. Others have both vocals as well as instrumental components.\nFor most of us, music is a great part of our lifestyle, moreover, in most cases, we enjoy music similar to betting on 20Bet.\nMusic can affect our hormones and cognitive functioning, according to Kendall Devlin. In her book, “Live For Live Music,” she claims that listening to music can help strengthen our brains and improve our sleep.\nLet us get right to the first point: music can strengthen your memory.\nWhen I was in secondary school, I struggled to remember what was being said in class but, unfortunately, it was in vain. After struggling with depression for a long time, my teacher suggested that I should listen to music.\nWhen I first started listening to music, it completely blew my mind and made me think and learn a lot.\nAccording to studies, listening to music improves our memory.\nScientists believe that people who listen to music while they’re working on a task tend to perform better. For instance, playing the music in the background can improve their performance.\nA study also stated that listening to music can improve attention and memory.\nNext, my second point is music helps you sleep better.\nGetting enough sleep is very important for your health and your performance in class.\nMost people with insomnia do use sleeping pills. However, for those with this condition, these medications should not be used for a long time.\nExperts also warn that taking sleeping pills can have various side effects, such as memory loss and headaches. Fortunately, there are other ways to improve your sleep.\nMusic plays a significant role in our lives, providing us with a means of self-expression, emotional release, and connection with others. To truly appreciate and harness the power of music, it’s essential to have access to the right resources and guidance. Allas Music Studio is a renowned establishment that offers a comprehensive range of music lessons and services, catering to individuals of all ages and skill levels. By nurturing your musical talents with the help of experienced professionals, you can unlock your full potential and experience the profound impact of music on your life.\nAlthough it is not necessary to play every song in your music collection to get the proper amount of sleep, it’s still important to listen to slow and soft music to help you fall asleep.\nA relaxing type of music with its various soft sounds known as ASMR can also help you fall asleep. It can also help you overcome insomnia.\nTo get the most out of your music sessions, try placing your headphones in your ears so as not to lose any of the sounds.\nIf you are not comfortable with wearing headphones, consider using a pillow speaker. This type of device will allow you to feel a wave of sound coming from your pillow.\nOne of the most important reasons why music is so important to you is that it can help you heal.\nMichael Friedman, a psychologist, said that music can help people feel better by reducing their anxiety and stress. It also helps them block out negative thoughts.\nAccording to studies, music can also improve the brain’s capacity to feel calm and peaceful. It can stimulate the release of chemicals that are known to improve breathing and heart rate.\nPlaying music can also lower the levels of anxiety and depression in people.\nMusic can also help heal and reduce blood pressure and respiratory function.\nIn addition, music therapy can help cancer patients feel better. According to researchers, it can reduce their pain and improve their mood.\nMany people who abused drugs and alcohol turned to music therapy to form their souls.\nAside from being beneficial to our mental and physical health, music can also help improve our mood and balance in our life.\nSo, everyone, keep calm and listen to music.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Ever told your child, we’ll do it tomorrow?\nAnd in your haste not see his sorrow?\nEver lost touch, Let a good friendship die\nCause you never had time To call & say “Hi”?\nYou’d better slow down. Don’t dance so fast.\nTime is short. The music won’t last.\nWhen you run so fast to get somewhere\nYou miss half of the fun of getting there.\nWhen you worry & hurry through Your day,\nIt is like an unopened gift…Thrown away.\nLife is not a race. Do take it slower\nHear the music Before the song is over.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Plyometric movements, in which a muscle is loaded and then contracted in rapid sequence, use the strength, elasticity and innervation of muscle and surrounding tissues to produce greater strength, more speed and explosive power. A staple of the P90X system, a DVD-based home workout, the exercises in the workouts cover all aspects of plyometrics training. The plyometric workout contains five sections of four movements; the first three last 30 seconds, and the final movements typically last 60 seconds.\nVideo of the Day\nSection 1 includes the more basic plyometric movements. You begin with jump squats. You then move into the stationary running stance squat. Next you will be asked to complete the airborne Heisman movement. The section ends with 60 seconds of swing kicks, after which you will rest for 30 seconds. After the rest period, repeat all the exercises once more.\nAfter another 30-second rest, the second section begins with squat reach jumps. You then repeat the run stance squats, moving into a modified Heisman movement known as the double airborne Heisman. A new exercise, the circle run, is conducted for 60 seconds. Rest for 30 seconds and repeat this set again.\nAfter a 30-second rest, begin this section with jump knee tucks. The next exercise is the Mary Katherine lung, after which you will move into a leapfrog squat. The section ends with a twist combo; rest and complete this section again.\nSection 4 begins with rock star hops, followed by gap jumps. Squat jumps are the next exercise before the last movement, the military march. The military march only lasts 30 seconds, after which you will rest for 30 seconds, and repeat this section.\nThe last section contains the run squat 180-jump sequence, after which you will be asked to complete a lateral leapfrog squat. The third movement is referred to as the monster truck tire, and the section ends with 60 seconds of the hot-foot exercise. Take a 30-second rest and repeat this section.\nThe Bonus Section\nThe bonus section of the plyometrics workout includes three exercises that you will complete for a 60 seconds each. These movements start with the pitch and catch and move into the jump shot. The bonus section ends with the football hero exercise. After completing this section once, you have finished the P90X plyometrics workout.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "CL-OBJC | RT-CLIM | CL-CHMLIB | KMRCL | ptester | XREF | PythOnLisp | Torta | ODD-STREAMS | CLUnit | NST | Hyperdoc | HEUTE | SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator) | (INCF CL) | Common Lisp and IEEE 754 | hyperspec-lookup | build-asdf-package | logv | de.setf.utility | Autobench | FReT | defsystem-compatibility | IOlib-Alien | CL-RCFiles | Trivial Shell | NST | lisp-unit | DOCUMENTATION-TEMPLATE | stefil | FLEXI-STREAMS | portch | defclass-star | Bordeaux Threads | JACOL - Java and Common Lisp\nView all (71 more)...\nClon, the Command-Line Options Nuker(Modified)| CL-RCFiles(Modified)| usocket(Modified)| NST(Added)| (INCF CL)(Added)| NST(Added)| Maintaining Portable Lisp Programs - It's a bug, n...(Modified)| de.setf.utility(Added)| Unix-Style CLI Option Parser(Modified)| FiveAM(Modified)| ch-util(Modified)| Foreign Structures By Value(Added)| cl-walker(Modified)| trivial-garbage(Added)| trivial-garbage(Added)| logv(Modified)| portch(Modified)| ptester(Added)| Literate Programming in Lisp(Added)| cl-selenium(Modified)| py-configparser(Modified)\nView all last modified items...\n(Notes are similar to comments but for adding precisions or facts)\nYou must be logged to add a note\nYou must be logged to add a comment", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cherry & Balsamic Wet Rubbed Pork Ribs\nLast edited: 8/26/11\n- Hawg Heaven RubLast edited: 9/28/11\n- Here Piggy Piggy BrineLast edited: 6/11/12\n- Cherry Dry Rub Recipe And ProcessLast edited: 9/22/12\n- Blueberry-Cherry Dry Rub for PorkLast edited: 10/5/13\nPoultry - Page 73\nThis forum will be monitored for it's content ; we are committed to help each member be informed as to safe prepping and cooking practices in preparing Fowl. Handling,cutting,seasoning,temps.,and questionable practices.\nAs you know , I am Oldschoolbbq aka Stan ; I have been appointed Moderator of the Chicken (Poultry) section of discussions. 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{"text": "European UNESCO Geoparks: Introduction to Part I\nThe concept of the volume is to survey all the key geoparks throughout Europe in terms of their palaeontological significance. The first 25 articles in this Part cover the long span of geological time from the Precambrian to the Permian, arranged in chronostratigraphic order. These document some of the most important early stages in the history of life, from its origin to the devastation end-Permian mass extinction.\nRead the full text of the article", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This jam is now over. It ran from 2021-04-14 05:00:00 to 2021-04-28 05:00:00. View 32 entries\nOST Jam is a non-competitive game jam with the goal to inspire new ways of approaching game development through music. At the start of the jam, a collection of music will be shared (provided by up-and-coming and experienced musicians in the Two Hour Album Challenge community). All that remains is making a game inspired by the music!\nThe goal of this jam is to have a chill, safe environment for developers to try something new based off unlikely inspiration. When you listen to the music do you hear a dungeon theme? Or the backdrop to a text adventure in space? Or possibly a crazy abstract boss rush? Or maybe the background music to a tabletop game? It's up to you!\nRules: You must use one or more of the provided songs in your project. You must also post your jam project as a free download and attribute the musician for the songs you used.\nSafe for Work: This jam is rated T for Teen. Mostly we want this jam to be a positive and inclusive experience for everyone. Refrain from overly explicit sexual content and all hate speech.\nDiscord: Join the Abstractionauts Discord (http://discord.abstractionmusic.com/) if you want to chat with others participating in the OST Jam.\nFile Format: Music will be provided as OGG format in a ZIP file. Some songs may be rendered as loops, but others may be the full song.\nMusic License: This music is licensed by the contributing artists to be used with attribution solely for the game jam. If you wish to continue your project to a commercial release after the jam (including releases utilising Pay What You Want, or other optional payment pricing strategies), contact info is included for each artist so you can chat and work out expanded licensing permissions.\nBackground artwork from ArtBreeder\nNo submissions match your filter", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Young Identity at 6\nThis event has finished, tickets are no longer available.\nWrite, create and perform with Manchester’s premiere young spoken word performers.\n- Suitable for ages 13–25.\n- This is a beginners session suitable for those with little or no experience.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Waves on a String\nLead Author(s): University of Colorado Boulder\nSource: UC Boulder PhET\nStudent Price: Contact us to learn more\nObserve a string vibrate in slow motion. Wiggle the end of the string to make waves, or adjust the frequency and amplitude of an oscillator.\nThis content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This is not a full walkthrough but achievements are given in the order that they can be achieved when playing through the game normaly, thus this guide may serve as a reference in case you missed something or you got stuck. There is also a list of keyitem locations at the very end of the guide, just in case you can’t find them.\nNote: the saves in this game are broken and loading them will mess up most of the triggers, so for every ending (there are 4) you will probably have to start a new game.\n1. Find and Unlock Ending 1\nYes, the first ending is the very first achievement you can get. Just step through the first door, decide its to scary and turn around and leave.\nGet the flashlight from the trunk at the end of the first corridor\n3. Find and Unlock Ending 2\nLeave the brown room through the other door (not the one you entered) turn right and enter the bathroom at the end of the corridor. Once you leave a shadow will appear. Move towards it and turn right towards the basement door. The shadow will attack you and grant you Ending 2.\n4. Going Down?\nOnce you acquired the basement key from the room with the workstation computer, head to the basement to unlock this achievement\n5. Unlock the Safe\nUse the piano and follow the instructions on the note in the same room (play me). If you don’t know how to read notes, there is a note in the corridor leading to the broken piano room that will help you. Alternativley here’s the solution: . This will also get you your first piano key (P1)\n6. Screw Master\n- Get screw (S1) from the corridor leading to the broken piano room\n- Get screw (S2) from the red corridor\n- Get screw (S3) from the green corridor, after you interacted with the backdoor\nNote: there is no purpose to the screws other than this achievement.\n7. Find and Unlock Ending 3\nOnce you found the backdoor key in the corridor with the rose wallpaper, make your way back to the backdoor and leave.\n8. Heaven Awaits\nPlace the statue of jesus on the empty cross in the green room. This will also get you your 3rd piano key (P3)\n9. Replace 3 Piano Keys\n- Get piano key (P1) from the room with the safe and the piano (see 4. Unlock the safe)\n- Get piano key (P2) from the room with the manequins. Note: To get out of the room just interact with the messageboard.\n- Get piano key (P3) from the green room with the cross (see 7. Heaven Awaits)\n- Goto the room with the broken piano and place the keys\n10. Enter the Sewer\nAfter replacing the piano keys (see 8. Replace 3 Piano Keys) get the keycard from the dead body in the now open bathroom. Goto the blue corridor interact with the door at the other end 4 times – the layout of the corridor changes each time – until the corridor is back to normal. Afterwards leave the corridor the way you entered. Once you’r out the door to the sewer will open. Turn around and enter the sewer.\n11. Enter the Morgue\nJust follow the path through the sewer utilizing the wrench to close the valves and stop the steam until you reach the morgue\n- Get note (N1) from the Kitchen\n- Get note (N2) from Michelle’s room\n- Get note (N3) from blue bedroom\n- Get note (N4) from the corridor leading to the broken piano room\n- Get note (N5) from room with broken piano\n- Get note (N6) from kids room\n- Get note (N7) from room with piano and safe\n- Get note (N8) from the green corridor\n- Get note (N9) right next to the previous one (Ransom note)\n- Get note (N10) from the dissection room (Dissection Schedule 1). There are two so it’s probably best to read both\n- Get note (N11) from the green corridor, after you interacted with the backdoor\n- Get note (N12) from blue corridor (with the door leading to sewers)\n- Get note (N13) from sewer\n- Get notes (N14-17) from morgue. The hardest to spot note lies on a brown patient bed in the corridor\n- Get notes (N19-20) in the brown corridor after the morgue\n13. Car Enthusiast\nAfter collecting the last note (if you missed any now is the best time to backtrack) grab the keys next to the last note.\n14. Find and Unlock Ending 4\nAfter picking up the car keys, follow along the corridor and go through the open door. The shadow will spawn and slowly move towards you, while the wall slowly slides away. Once you can interact with the door, do so. Congratulations you have finished the game and acquired the final achievement.\n- Michelle’s room key :(on shelves in brown room)\n- Wrench – used for closing valves in the sewer :(on shelves in brown room)\n- Basement key :(room with workstation)\n- Statue of Jesus :(room with broken piano)\n- Backdoor key :(corridor with the rose wallpaper)\n- Keycard :(from bathroom with the dead person)\nWritten by NOCTM", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This sound was recorded using 3 different microphones: - Channel 01 (70% left) : Røde NTG2 (condenser shotgun microphone) 2 ...\nA recording of a self-administered chiropractic adjustment of the lower vertebrae. Recorded with a condenser microphone.\nMultiple whip swoosh sounds made by swinging a wooden stick in the air. Recorded with Zoom H2.\nMale crowd talking loop\nDouble vibrate notification from a mobile phone.\nA vocalised \"bum\" sound produced to sound like a bleep, possibly suitable for a notification sound effect.\nbody falling to ground and hitting crash mat\nATTENTION- Please leave a comment saying what you plan to use the sound for, I am interested. A body hitting ...\nMissed punch, or something traveling through the air. Recorded using a condenser microphone and a boomstick swung through the air ...\nA kick in the head sound made by layering up 2 mic stands hitting different pillows.\nsound produced by the ringtone mobile phone in the library.\nRock Savage Western Pistol Shot enhanced for a more realistic impression. cira 1870", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "I have been playing with the Simply Scrappin' Kits. They are SO MUCH FUN!\nI made 51 different cards from the hostess set. I really like the stripe paper in this set. I wish the other sets in the catalog were this neat. It has a good amount of flowers/small accents for the cards.\nMy customers will be making full size cards from the At Home Kit at my Simply Scrappin' Cards Class. They have a choice to either make 20 cards (all different) from half of a kit OR make 40 cards (2 of each design) from a full kit.\nThanks so much for your help, StampinManda and VWing. I'm not sure if I would cut the diagonal one again. I had such a hard time finishing those cards. But it was a good way to stretch my creative thoughts. :)\nDate: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 GMT Views: 1630", "label": "No"}
{"text": "From the delicate flame of blazing fire.\nThis collection is on fire …\nThree-dimensional shaped, elegant and expressive.\nThe dance of the flames possesses a precise design style full of excitement and energy.\nThe basic shape of these jewellery is always the same. It is your choice if you start the dance with a delicate flame, two flames or directly with the blazing fire!\nAll pieces have the same origin from which the flames are vividly growing and evolving into one or more flames!\nGet enthusiastic and catch the fire!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "• From the high mountain to a beach, very nice. I Like this wonderful shore composition a lot.\n• by ♥ Kama ♥\nFabulous. L+F Bravo, Judith\nWonderful autumn mood ! Thank you !\nBest wishes, Suzen\nThanks a lot, my dear ssSUH, greetings!\nVery impressive, wonderful shot!!\nBest wishes Ice.\nKlasse Bild L/F Besten Gruß Dennis.\nVery nice shot LikE and best wishes Andre\n— Bruno, Kamalakar, Jole —, thanks for the compliments. I'm glad you could enjoy this shot! :)\nregards, Andre | © pilago", "label": "No"}
{"text": "So many things to say! But no time!\nSo, I’ll tell you something Christine said.\nMe: Christine, you should come to circus class ONE TIME.\nMe: Yes. You should try it ONCE.\nChristine: No. I have no upper-body strength.\nMe: Well, how do you think you will get upper body strength?\nChristine: Sitting here on my butt.\nOne thought on “The shortest Christine story.”\nHa ha ha ha ha", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hey y'all, how's it going? I really need to learn *not* to try reading right before bedtime...I always stay up too late! But I got my trusty mug o' tea this morning and a card to share.\nLet's start with the Retro Rubber Challenge:\nI used Delightful Dijon (harvest gold), Always Artichoke (avocado green), Really Rust (burnt orange), and Chocolate Chip (brown), so even my colors are retro! As for the stamps, For the Record isn't retro yet, but Music from the Heart is at least 2 years old, Epic Celebrations is 4 years old, and Gorgeous Grunge is 8 years old. Man, for a while there I used Gorgeous Grunge on *everything*, so it was fun to bust it out again for this! Also, as for the 70s theme, I think I've already mentioned that I recently bought my first pair of bell bottom pants and I'm working on putting together an epic 70s playlist (it's an ongoing process as I find more music!). So no way was I letting this challenge pass me by.\nBut I played in two other challenges as well! I used the sketch from Fusion:\nAnd the inspo list from Festive Friday:\nAs someone who is allergic to the sound of silence, I really appreciated the music theme this time around. I used music notes, white, an instrument (guitar), embossing, and a circle. Half the list ain't too bad.\nHave a great day!\nSupplies, all SU! (many retired)\nStamps: For the Record, Music from the Heart, Epic Celebrations, Gorgeous Grunge\nInk: Versamark, Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, Always Artichoke\nPaper: Really Rust, Chocolate Chip, Thick Basic White, Always Artichoke DSP\nAccessories: Layering Circles dies, Stylish Shapes dies, clear EP, Dimensionals\nAnd here's my awesome butterfly bell bottoms!\nI need to have them hemmed; the hems are unfinished and even wearing tall espadrilles, these pants drag on the floor. But I loves them! And I *have* worn them out in public!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Both shows ran Friday evening at the Cafritz Foundation Theatre.\nThe play follows a wealthy African American family as they learn to communicate with each other through conversations on race and class.\nWhat do Britney Spears, feminist literature and fairy tales have in common?\nIt’s not ideal, they say, but it’s workable.\nThe show opens on May 7.\nOne dance student is using a parking lot to practice her craft.\nA bad play has never been so good.\nJunior Jake Schwartz plays starring role Michael Dork.\nI have a bone to pick with whoever cast Coleman Cummings as Roger Davis.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $99\nSold Out $44.99\nRoll the dice outdoors. This classic dice game has been adapted for outdoor fun! Rill the five wooden dice and try to get as many of the categorized combinations as possible. The player with the highest score wins!\n15 minute play time\nNotify me when this product is available:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In Camtasia 3, I can see the audio bar with the audio sound clearly there. But when I play it, there is no sound. Previously, I separated audio and video. I could go back to time machine and find the original, but I am wondering if there isn't a simpler solution.\nPlease sign in to leave a comment.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Magnus tells Adam Worth she is leaving to find the hidden city. Although he warns her of great danger there, she insists he stay behind and promises to bring back the cure to their radiation illness.\noriginal airdate--December 17,2010 rating--1.474 million\nnetwork: SyFy Channel\nmusic: \"Sanctuary\" theme music composed by Andrew Lockington", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How to deal with the Ottomas Family\nOkay...... I know this is supremely outdated.\nBut, yesterday for the first time, I actually took the Ottomas family out of the family bin. I have all of the patches, and all of that jazz. Now I know her unborn twins are glitched, which is why I didn't even save anything. I thought it would be fun to play them.\nSo I went on simswiki, and it said to use the insiminator to terminate her pregnancy. Which I tried, except she glitched up, and kept doing the pregnant walk. So I exited without saving.\nWhat do I do with them? Do I have to recreate them to be able to play with them? Because I don't mind.... I'm just wondering if there is an easier way.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Diamond Wedding Band | Solid 14K Gold | Channel Set Diamond Band | Curved Matching Band | April Birthstone | Fine Jewelry | Free Shipping\nThis ring was created to work around an engagement ring with a belly. We quite understand the frustration of trying to find a matching wedding band that will look good even if worn alone. The curved contours will work wonders with your engagement ring. This particular curved matching diamond wedding band is set in a channel setting, adding another wonderful design element as well as ensuring that you can wear it without worry of snagging.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "FFT : Fast Fourier Transform a digital signal processing technique that converts a time record into a narrow band constant bandwidth filtered spectrum. Measurements are defined by specifying the frequency span and a number of lines (or filters).\nFFT Lines related to the number of sample points in a 'block' of data to be analysed. For example if the frequency range is DC to 1000 Hz and the number of lines = 400 then each line represents = 2.5 Hz (1000/400).\nFilter a device for separating components of a signal on the basis of their frequency. It allows components in one or more frequency bands to pass relatively unattenuated, and it attenuates components in other frequency bands. Modifies the frequency spectrum of a signal usually while it is in electrical form. A Helmholtz Resonator is an example of an physical acoustic filter.\nFletcher-Munson Curves in the 1930s Fletcher and Munson, after extensive testing produced their\nequal loudness contours to relate a decibel reading, at a given frequency to loudness. They called this unit a Phon.\nFourier Spectrum the line spectrum resulting from an FFT analysis is equally spaced, so the time signal is analysed in constant bandwidths. The analyser analyses the time signal in blocks and each block is recorded in memory and a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is performed on each block (the old instantaneous spectrum).\nFourier Transform a mathematical operation for decomposing a time function into its frequency components (amplitude and phase). The process is reversible, and the signal can be reconstructed from its Fourier components\nFree Field Microphone at frequencies above 1 kHz the wavelength of sound is small enough for a half-inch microphone to 'disturb' or affect the sound field you are trying to measure. Free field microphones are tailored to compensate for this effect and are the most common type in use. The presence of the microphone should not to effect the measurement. Free field microphones are also known as omnidirectional microphones.\nFrequency Domain vibration exists in time, and it is said to be in the\ntime domain. The representation of a vibration signal in the time domain is a wave form, and this is what one would see if the signal were displayed on an oscilloscope. If the waveform is subjected to a spectrum analysis, the result is a plot of amplitude versus frequency, called a\nspectrum, and the spectrum is in the frequency domain.\nThe waveform is transformed from the time domain to the frequency domain. Most detailed analysis of machinery vibration data is done in the frequency domain, but certain information is more easily interpreted in the time domain.\nFundamental FrequencyIEC Definition,\na) frequency of the sinusoidal component of a periodic quantity that has the same period as the periodic quantity\nb) lowest natural frequency of an oscillatory system\nFundamental Frequency the lowest frequency of a vibrating system. The spectrum of a periodic signal will consist of a fundamental component and possibly a series of harmonics of this frequency. The fundamental is also called the first harmonic.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "The so-called sound quality refers to the fidelity of the audio signal after transmission and processing. At present, the industry recognized sound quality standards are divided into 4 levels, namely the CD-DA quality of digital compact disc, its signal bandwidth is 10Hz~20kHz; FM broadcast FM quality, its signal bandwidth is 20Hz~15kHz; AM broadcast AM quality, its signal The bandwidth is 50Hz~7kHz; the voice quality of the phone has a signal bandwidth of 200Hz~3400Hz. It can be seen that the digital compact disc has the highest sound quality and the telephone has the lowest voice quality. In addition to the frequency range, other methods and indicators are often used to further describe the sound quality standards for different uses.\nFor analog audio, the more frequency components of the reproduced sound, the smaller the distortion and interference, the higher the sound fidelity, and the better the sound quality. For example, in communication science, the level of sound quality is measured by indicators such as distortion and signal-to-noise ratio in addition to the frequency range of the audio signal. For digital audio, the more components that reproduce the sound frequency are the smaller the bit error rate and the better the sound quality. Usually measured by the digital rate (or storage capacity), the higher the sampling frequency, the larger the number of quantization bits, the more the number of channels, the larger the storage capacity, of course, the fidelity is high and the sound quality is good.\nThe sound categories are different and the sound quality requirements are different. For example, the sound quality fidelity is mainly reflected in clear, undistorted, and reproduced flat sound images; the fidelity of the music is required to be high, and the spatial sound image is mainly embodied in multi-channel analog stereo surround sound, or virtual two-channel. 3D surround sound and other methods to reproduce all the sound images of the original sound source.\nThe use of audio signals is different, and the quality standards for compression are different. For example, the telephone quality audio signal adopts the ITU-TG711 standard, 8 kHz sampling, 8 bit quantization, and a code rate of 64 Kbps. The AM broadcast uses the ITU-TG® 722 standard, 16 kHz sampling, 14-bit quantization, and a code rate of 224 Kbps. The high-fidelity stereo audio compression standard is jointly developed by ISO and ITU-T. The CD11172-3MPEG audio standard is 48kHz, 44.1kHz, 32kHz sampling, and the digital rate of each channel is 32Kbps~448Kbps, which is suitable for CD-DA discs.\nMAONO is an innovative designer and manufacturer of Lavalier, Podcasting, Wireless, Shotgun, Recording microphones and accessories for Smartphone, Camera and PC, etc.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "#45 Notes Follow-Ups\nDid you know that when you add a follow-up task to a note within the Advisors Assistant contact record, all of the notes added to the calendar event carry over to the note itself?\nWhen you add a Follow-up Date to a note, a task is automatically added to your Advisors Assistant Calendar (or you can assign the Task to another User’s calendar). The note you’ve just added will carry over to the Calendar Task, so that when the Follow-up Date occurs you’ll know why you wanted to follow-up with that contact. You can edit any part of the Task that is added, and you can assign the Task to another user’s calendar.\nIf you then make changes in the Calendar Task Notes Area, those modifications will carry over to the note itself. You don’t have to update the note in two places, it will automatically update for you.\nAlso, if you delete or complete the calendar event, all of the notes that have been added will remain in the note under the Advisors Assistant contact record.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "I have wonder How i can build 1 Preamp using 2N9304 Transistor. and the output should be connected to the Analogs Pin. I am trying to very basic guitar effects. But i dont know how to build preamp.\nWell first you have to deal with a hardware restriction, an arduino analog input pin (as well as digital pins) cannot safely handle AC voltages, which is what a audio signal is. The negative part of the waveform has to be biased such that the whole audio waveform is contained in a 0 to +5vdc voltage range that an arduino can handle electrically. A single transistor circuit is a rather limited way to amplify and bias a low level audio signal. A two stage op-amp in a 8 pin DIP package is probably the minimum way to go. Second, what do you want your program to be able to do with this analog audio signal? An arduino is pretty limited in what it can extract from such a signal and limited SRAM space makes storing such sampled information very difficult.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "My first original animation! Oh my have I learned a lot from this one. The answer is yes, I have. Try not to make the music AFTER you make the animation. Also the music doesn't really seem to fit it, maybe a bit too serious? There was some dumb audio errors with the music and sound effects, yadda yadda. I'm gonna move on to my next project now, with a bunch of little projects throughout.\nI don't know what that music cutting out at the end was all about. I was considering if I should upload it or not because of that.\nNext things I'll improve on: Backgrounds, voicing, music, timing, tone, audio in general, etc.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I had the pleasure of photographing J & J’s stunning Christmas wedding at the beautiful Woodlands Park Hotel in Cobham in Surrey, in between Christmas and New Years Eve.\nAs lovely as my Christmas was, it was so nice to have a break from the cheeseboard and the Quality Street tin and get creative photographing this gorgeous couple in the beautiful surroundings of Woodlands Park.\nThe bride had five pretty bridesmaids all dressed in elegant emerald green satin bridesmaids dresses. The couples adorable daughter was a flower girl who had a smile on her face for the whole day.\nThe groom had three handsome best men. The all looked incredibly nervous before the ceremony began, then the song Under Pressure by Queen was played and everyone broke into smiles and laughter, it was the perfect song for that moment, and relaxed everyone in time for the magical appearance of the bride.\nIt was a perfect day, and a perfect start to a new year, and a new decade for this lovely couple. I wish them a lifetime of happiness together.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Earlier this month I participated in Artists Night at my favorite local Farmers Market. It was a beautiful evening filled with delicious food, good music and many talented artists of all mediums.\nBozrah Farmers Market, Sept 2013\nHorse and carriage rides!\nThe super talented, Eight Mile River Band\nLittle Sister's Grilled Cheese Truck! I had a \"Steak Bomb\" sandwich. Yum!", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "The Weak’s End (Live) Blu\nThe Weak’s End (Live) on Blu-ray. High quality video and audio recording of the TWE special. Also comes with the audio digital download. Only 100 available.\n*These are recordable discs and only play on standard blu-ray players, not game systems*", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "[PATCH] nvmem: meson: use generic compatible\nrobh at kernel.org\nTue Oct 17 13:52:04 PDT 2017\nOn Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 09:39:13PM +0200, Jerome Brunet wrote:\n> On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 21:14 +0200, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:\n> > Hi Jerome,\n> > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Jerome Brunet <jbrunet at baylibre.com> wrote:\n> > > The meson efuse driver seems to be compatible with more SoCs than\n> > > initially thought. Let's use the most generic compatible he have in\n> > > DT instead of the gxbb specific one\n> > >\n> > > Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet at baylibre.com>\n> > > ---\n> > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/amlogic-efuse.txt | 4 ++--\n> > > drivers/nvmem/meson-efuse.c | 2 +-\n> > > 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)\n> > >\n> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/amlogic-efuse.txt\n> > > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/amlogic-efuse.txt\n> > > index fafd85bd67a6..0260524292fe 100644\n> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/amlogic-efuse.txt\n> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/amlogic-efuse.txt\n> > > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@\n> > > = Amlogic eFuse device tree bindings =\n> > >\n> > > Required properties:\n> > > -- compatible: should be \"amlogic,meson-gxbb-efuse\"\n> > > +- compatible: should be \"amlogic,meson-gx-efuse\"\nSame comment as for the firmware.\n> > have you checked with the devicetree maintainers how they want the\n> > documentation to look like in this case?\n> You mean \"Should we put every compatible existing (in DT) in the documentation\"\n> From what I've seen, at least in meson drivers, only the matched ones are\n> That's a good question though.\n> We tend to put soc specific compatible \"in case\" we need them later on. Should\n> we document those ?\nMore information about the linux-amlogic", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The title of this newest piece seems quite appropriate. I feel as if I have been on the outskirts of everything for some time now.\nFor those of you who don’t know my beautiful wife, Mary, and I had a baby boy on 29Jan12. His name is Augustus Ray Stephens and he is something else entirely. We are, needless to say, extremely preoccupied and generally exhausted lately. Add in Augie Ray and many other ingredients and you have a recipe for a long hiatus between blog posts.\nWell, I have been intending to post this one for over a week, so sorry if it is too late to grab a copy. I have a piece in last week’s New Yorker, cover date 16Apr12. The piece is for a Russian film called “Outskirts.” It is from the early sound era of the movies.\nHopefully I will post some pics of Augie soon. And I also have a back log of things to post up from the work I have been doing for Southern Comfort: Japan.\nWish me luck!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This is the project page for Music 256A final project, Horseback.\nThe inspiration of Horseback comes from my frustration of trying to compose a cantus firmus for my music theory class.\nIf life is hard, why not enjoy a horse ride while saving those falling notes from a failed cantus firmus?\nInitial design scatch:\nThis is a download link to its unity package: unity package\nAfter download the unity package, import it into unity. Then you should be able to play it inside scene Horseback.\nTips for playing Horseback:\n- Explore and see how the horse and sound reacts to keyboard inputs!\n- Use A/S/D/F keys to interact with horse legs.\n- Use space key when the space bar on the left side is filled.\n- Use G/R keys to switch between different modes", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I love Modern Family! So I decided to do a little illustration based on the characters :)\nHere is a piece I'm currently working on. :) Don't really understand the basis for this piece hopefully it works out in the end\nThis is the WIP piece (above)\nThis one is the concept.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "The director's voice. Volume 2 /\nThis second volume presents a cross-section of the most diverse and dynamic stage directors defining today's American theater, in conversation with director/producer Jason Loewith. A follow-up to the immensely popular first volume, which has sold over eighteen thousand copies, much has changed...\nNew York :\nTheatre Communications Group,", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Think you are psychic? Shawn Spencer makes his living pretending to be. Shawn and his best friend Gus own a business called Psych. They are able to stay in business only because of the cases they work with Santa Barbara police department as psychics. Shawn and Gus go through many ups and downs trying to keep the ruse up. Can they pretend forever? Or is the world they built going to come crumbling down?\nAll the law. None of the order.\nSee more »\nDid You Know?\nTo add tropical warmth to the show, lots of greenery is added to the scenes, and the show employs a large greenery department to handle it. See more\nGus's company car is a Toyota Echo hatchback, which was only made available to Canadian consumers. See more\n[watching Shawn jump up and down because he just figured out the case\nShawn, don't you *dare* learn a wrong lesson while I'm trying to teach you a right lesson!\nEach time a guest performer sings the theme song, they sing the entire song as opposed the shorter version in normal episodes. See more\nI Know You Know\nWritten by Steve Franks\nPerformed by The Friendly Indians See more", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Reviewed by Crysania Sprott THE 4333 A\nThe second evening of the sixth Fresh Meat festival which was held at the Arts Court theatre on Friday, October 13th offered up an nice selection of new works by artists in the Ottawa theatre community. The first three performances presented a good variety of pieces, and offered something for everyone.\nLe Crisp Bleu\nThe first work of the evening provided the most lighthearted and frivolous fun piece of the show. “Le Crip Bleu”, which was conceived by Michele Decottignies, gave us an intriguing twist on a burlesque performance. While the show provided the expected dancing and stripping to sultry jazz music, the twist was that the performers (Frank Hull and Alan Shain) were two men in electric wheelchairs. The piece employed very creative use of wheelchairs to emulate burlesque moves, but adapted them to suit bodies which are otherwise limited. In this way, “Le Crip Bleu was able to challenge conventions of what is considered beautiful and sexy, while also simply being a lot of fun, both for the performers, who were visibly having a great time, and for the audience, who fed off their infectious energy and shouted and cheered them on.\nFollowing the excitement of “Le Crip Bleu”, the second piece of the evening was vastly different. In a distinct shift in tone, “La disparition (She’s gone)” was a lovely, touching piece is about mothers. The piece was created and performed by Anie Richer and Marc-André Charette, and as they were able to speak and perform in their own words about the loss of a mother, either to death or to dementia, “La disparition” took on a genuinely moving and honest aspect which brought several members of the audience to tears. This very genuine and emotional piece was full of lovely dynamic shifts, and the writing was very good. The only place where this performance fell down at all was in the technical element of the surtitles. Because the piece was in French, surtitles were used to make the words understood. However, they were too slow and lagged behind the actual dialogue, and they were also placed too high to read easily and watch the play at the same time.\nThe third piece of the show which rounded out the first act was “Beer Buddies”, which was both written and performed by Michaela Steven. Much like “La disparition”, “Beer Buddies” was an honest, personal piece for the creator, but unfortunately it did not have the same emotional resonance as the previous show had. While her performance was solid in terms of technique, the piece came across much more self-indulgent and pretentious than having a genuine sense of honesty. Several elements of the production didn’t seem to work, from the repeated drinking, which was thematically relevant but slowed the pacing, to her short black dress which seemed more suited to a dance piece than to the story she was telling. That said, there were good qualities as well. In particular, she had a nice sense of humour, which was evident in moments such as asking a member of the audience which wine she should pick. The lighting was also rather effective in demonstrating a shift in locations or the time of day. Overall however, the work fell flat.\nThese pieces offered just a snap shot of the variety of works presented at the Fresh Meat festival, and gave a clear idea of the wonderful creativity which abounds in the creators of new works in the Ottawa theatre community.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Take a break from cooking and setting the table! Join our brief morning t’fillah and teaching. This pre Pesach ritual exempts first-born of each family from traditional fast leading up to start of Passover. Light meal / nosh will follow.\nDate and Time:\nFriday, April 19, 2019 - 8:00am to 9:30am", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Title Wave @ Bay Street celebrates new works in development through readings and panel discussions. This three-day festival includes readings of new plays and musicals by some of the most exciting emerging playwrights and composers. The focus of the festival is to give the playwrights a chance to hear their works in development in front of an audience and to give the audience at Bay Street the chance to experience cutting edge voices in theater. Each reading is followed by a talkback with the audience.\nStay tuned for 2020 Title Wave announcements coming soon!", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Fri, Dec 11 | Live Virtual Workshop\nThe Power of Breath\nBegin this unique training workshop with a practice to learn several pranayama techniques, each designed to have a particular effect on the body’s systems. Following this practice, join your teacher in discussion how to create and teach these practices in your own classes and workshops.\nRegistration is Closed", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sorry for the delay… things have been busy. Pages are all up to date now! The project is moving along very well – we’re very impressed with the quality and speed of the work.\nWe’ll try to keep things more up to date as time moves along. Greg has photos on his phone that he might add as well. Hope the big storm doesn’t come this way!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Contact me via email with your questions or comments about the podcast or industry as a whole.\nLeave a 90-second question or comment that you would like addressed in an upcoming episode.\nYou'll find episode updates, daily motivations, and unreleased audio you won't hear anywhere else.\nYep, you can \"watch\" the podcast by listening to various sound clips as well as complete episodes.\nThanks for contacting me!\nHosted/Produced by Patrick Oliver Jones\n©WINMI Podcast, 2019 • New York, New York", "label": "No"}
{"text": "“In the stage direction, they almost have sex on stage … there was a lot more fondling,” Friedlich says.\nWhen he ended Vieux Carré with the stage direction, “The house is empty now,” Lahr somberly terms it “an augury and an epitaph.”\nKrasinski: The stage direction was, “He is horrible at singing.”\nThe same reasoning was applicable to the practice of putting the stage direction \"aside\" at the end of a sentence.\nstage direction to the same effect, first inserted by Capell.\nThe acting of the next seven lines of stage direction held an audience with increasing intensity of feeling for some five minutes.\nThen followed the stage direction, \"Exit for ze Haysmarket.\"\nHe has taken the whole burden of the stage direction off my hands.\n\"Make your lively battel and let it be long,\" says the stage direction.\nMr Dyce conjectured that 'here's drink' was the corruption of a stage direction, 'here drink.'\nPart of the script of a play that tells the actors how they are to move or to speak their lines. Enter, exit, and exeunt are stage directions.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Suburban Sluts Updates\nRemmie Set 04\nRemmie takes off her short skirt to play in her pantyhose and panties before pulling them both down to give her hairy cunt a good fingering on the lounge floor.\nRed Set 24\nMature housewife Red in a long dress over a full slip, stockings, suspenders and panties with high heels strips down to her stockings, pulling her panties down she fingers her juicy cunt before pushing her vibrator deep, followed by some hands on fingering.\nFleur: The Interview\nFleur arrives early for an interview and finds herself getting turned on flicking through some adult magazines on the table. She soon has her lovely big tits out but unable to hold back she pulls her panties aside and gives her wet pussy a good fingering until she reaches orgasm, the whole thing caught...\nSarah & Justin\nSarah's at home alone when Justin walks in and catches her fucking herself. She undresses him and sucks his cock while he fingers and licks her wet cunt before fucking her and shooting his load on her face.\nJulie Set 04\nHorny Julie pulls down her panties and fingers her juicy cunt in her lace stockings and lingerie\nMost Popular Updates\nMost Popular Models", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Doubles, Singles, Youths, Juniors, Performance classes\nFormat of play\nAll matches will be played to the best of 5 games.\nDouble events played as knock-out rounds. If there are 4 or less teams the event will be played in a round-robin format without knock-out. Also Performance Classes may be played in this format, depending on schedule and number of entries in the tournament.\nSingle events played in a round-robin basis in groups of 3, 4 or 5 players. Two players advance from each group to the second stage which will be played in knock-out format. In youth-, junior-, performance class 2 & 3 also players placed 3-5 in the first stage goes to second stage consolation knock-out ”B-rounds”.\nIf there are 4 or less players the event will be played in a round-robin format without knock-out.\nSeeding for all the events will be done according to the latest ITTF PTT and Parasport Sweden rating list at the time of the draws.\nThe draws will be held 30 minutes before each class start.\nEligibility and Classes/classification\nDepending on the entries, the organizer reserve the right to combine classes in accordance to the Parasport Sweden tournament regulations for para table tennis.\nPlease note that players can only register in maximum one single class per day. This means for Feb 10 youth/juniors are requested to choose these classes, seniors choose ”performance classes”.\nAll players with any physical or intellectual disability can participate. For the Disability classes 1-11 the player must have international or national table tennis classification.\nNational classification can be issued, to request this please contact the organizer.\nThe price ceremony will take place directly after the final match on Saturday and Sunday. There will be gold-, silver- and bronze medals. Bronze medals will be awarded to both semifinal players. If a singles event has fewer than 4 players, no bronze medal will be awarded.\nThe teams must wear uniform club outfit.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "MP3 InCall Recorder & Voice PRO v1.2\nRequirements: 2.3.3 and up\nOur advantages over the competitors:\n• 2 in 1: Mp3 format calls Recording and high-quality Voice recorder.\n• Two options in Call Recording mode: Manually select or automatically record all calls.\n• Recording long periods of time create a small audio file: 1 hour recording ~ 7 Mb.\n• In order to overcome the Low audio quality problem existing in other applications we have added a tool to amplify sound for clearer and better audio files.\n• Addition of equalizer to the MP3 player to adjust and repair the audio file.\n• Creating a new MP3 file from existing one after repairing and removal of a specific section of your choice.\n• Convenient and clear interface.\n• Continue recording even during incoming waiting call and the transition to her.\nWhat’s in this version:\nNew features on version 1.2:\n1. Application Password – Protects audio files from exposure.\n2. delete or save the last recording in Auto mode.(optional)\n3. Select the file save location and folder name (external or internal SD card).\n4. Sync to Dropbox!: single file, multiple files, or sync every recording at the end of it automatically.\nFiles will be saved in folders sorted by contact / phone number and inside by date.\n5. Automatically recording selection to specific contacts or phone numbers.\n• Add a contact from a recording of an unknown number.\n• Adding a comment to any recorded call.\n• Send files using any sharing software\n• One-click self-email to any audio file.\n• Select the recording start button placement or activate recording from notification bar (optional).\n• Select the recording source: directly from the phone line or from the microphone (not supported on all devices).\n• In order to record a call done in Bluetooth it is necessary to switch to the phone speaker – alert message will appear.\n• Voice recorder quick launch from notification bar – optional\nDownload link : Zippyshare", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Teen Weeklong Camp\nMonday – Saturday\nThis session is for teens, age 13 through 10th grade, who are on and off therapy. No parents or siblings attend this session. Campers participate in activities such as arts & crafts, fishing, boating, archery, talent show and canoeing.\nPlease check back for 2021 dates and registration information.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Two Identitarians scaled the famous Burgtheater in Vienna to hang a banner protesting the performance of a pro-migrant play, and Breitbart London has the first sneak-peek at the incredible footage they recorded from the stunt.\nTwo activists of the ‘hipster right-wing’ Identitarian movement in Austria made a daring protest against the national theatre in Vienna. The Burgtheater had put on a production of the controversial pro-migrant play “Die Schutzbefohlenen” on Wednesday night.\nThe Identitarians had previously interrupted a performance of the play being performed at the University of Vienna where they stormed the stage and called the play goers hypocrites who they say celebrate the migrant crisis.\nIn the voice-over for the new English-language film, Austrian Identitarian leader Martin Sellner explains: “After our protest against the refugees-welcome play at our university the leftist president of the national assembly, Mrs Bures, invited them into the famous Burg-theater, to repeat it under her ‘honorary protection’.\n“A few days later a 21 year old Student was brutally raped by 3 refugees in Vienna. You Hypocrites!”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- sound configuration is not hardcoded but configurable (through resourcepack)\n- ingame volume setting\n- new sound system (not only one composed sound effect for a biome, but multiple sound playing simultaneously)\nCreate your own pack?\nRead the Tutorial and feel free to share your packs, so i can promote them here.\nSounds in space?\nResourcepack for overworld sound only (v2.2.2 Download)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "ett - brings something unique to the theatres of Torino\nAn Evening of Theatre in English\nAn Evening of Theatre in English, a series of six short vignettes by various authors, with two original scenes written by group members Sally Rava and Anne McKenzie\n* * * * * * * * *\nFive Women in Search of a Play - by Sally Rava\nA group of ladies try to find the perfect play to produce for the annual Arts Festival.\n6.15 on the 104 – by Elinor Jones\nA comic scene set on a New York bus. Rosie briefly meets a number of odd characters who engage her into conversation on her short journey across town.\nShopping Trip – by Anne Mackenzie\nA monologue written and performed by theatre group actress Anne Mackenzie. Her character, Mrs Cole, tells the audience of her search for the perfect outfit for a function she is due to attend, and in the process we learn a little about her shopping obsession, her need to look fabulous and her inattentive husband.\nReincarnation - by Jessica Litwak\nRosie visits Madame Ceuili, a fortune teller with dubious credentials, a love of money and unconventional advice.\nComposing Tchaikovsky - by Laura Edmondsen\nTells the story of two women in the great composer's life: his wife, with whom he had a brief and disastrous marriage, and who speaks from the asylum to which she spent many years of her life; and his benefactress with whom he exchanged numerous letters but never met.\nStepping Out – by Richard Harris\nA tap dancing class is in place, where instructor Mavis and po-faced pianist Mrs Fraser try to teach the ladies the tap dancing steps and routines.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Cinecave, San FranciscoHand to Mouth is a one-of-a-kind show that asks comedians to write and perform all new material on a specific social, cultural or political issue. One show, one topic...\nOlema art shows sacramento events\nFriday, Mar 21 8:30p\nFriday, Apr 11 6:00p\nMain Street Theatre, San FranciscoNaked Empire Bouffon Company Artistic Director, Nathaniel Justiniano, is offering his award-winning, weekend-long Bouffon Intensive...\nSunday, Jul 27 4:30p\nChouinard Winery, Castro ValleyBring a gourmet picnic with you, savor the music and the wine! Wine is available for purchase throughout the event...\nFriday, Apr 4 5:30p\nRogue Gallery, WoodlandAn exclusive gallery show exhibiting 54 photographic prints of the beautiful & amazing Miss Bands for Boobs Pin Up Pageant Contestants! Each model's print will be raffled off at 8:30pm...\nFriday, Apr 4 8:00p\nLaughs Unlimited, SacramentoBe the star of the show as Award Winning Comedy Hypnotist Don Barnhart hypnotized audience volunteers taping into their creative potential...\nOlema art shows sacramento Related Topics\narts & crafts | community | business & tech | dance | fairs & festivals | food & dining | music | performing arts | sports & outdoors | visual arts | other | comedy | shopping | holiday | education/campus | comedy | home and garden show | sacramento musicals - | craft show | casino | dance events in sacramento | craft fairs | burlesque events | childrens theater | concerts | live theater sacramento | open mic | art gallery reception | camp | community center theater | talent show california | california current event | events in the sacramento on 3/15/2014 | garden club | clue\nDon't Miss This\nHot Tickets More »\nON SALE NOW\nFri 3/21 8:30p\nFri 3/21 7:00p\nSat 4/12 9:30p\nThu 4/24 8:00p\nSun 7/27 4:30p\nON SALE SOON\nOn Sale: Sun 3/16Sat 3/22 6:15p\nOn Sale: Fri 3/21Fri 5/23 8:00p", "label": "No"}
{"text": "You should just be able to remove the duct for the alternator (by pulling the lilltle plastic key out), un-clip the clips holding the air cleaner assembly together, tilt the forward section toward the front of the car and I think you can clip the old filter out and slip the new one in.\nMost problems are usually something simple !\nOriginally Posted by noego\nIt's Deja Poo - as in, I've heard this **** before.\nCalypso Red 1992 525i with 225K miles\n1991 735i - Sold\n1992 525i - Sold\n1995 325is - Sold\n2000 528i - Sold", "label": "No"}
{"text": "🎥 FC Barcelona – Final Third Play\n🧑🏫 Excellent final third play from FC Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski and midfielder Gavi. The importance of learning to play between the lines against a team defending in low block, plus engaging in movements into depth with maximum acceleration to create triangle play and goal scoring opportunities.\n🎯 Playing between the lines\n🎯 Vision to play the through ball\n🎯 Attacking forward runs\n🎯 Maximum acceleration\n🎯 Finish the action\nGuillermo Hamdan Zaragoza", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Originally Posted by Master Finch\nWhat are those references to? I've only ever heard of the Wilhelm scream, and they tend to use that when they cbf to get the voice actor back in and make him scream. Bowchikabowow.\nThe first one is a phone number, I think, George knows. The second one is George's first feature film THX-1138, and the third is the sound producer Ben Burtt's signature that he places as a joke in all of his films. Including all Star Wars films.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Okay So Here’s Real Life…\nI have nine days (which is actually more like eight) to do the following things:\n- Find my last audition song.\n- Rehearse both songs with piano accompaniment.\n- Find two monologues.\n- Rehearse and memorize them both.\n- Figure out what the hell is going on in the Seagull, and who is who.\n- Make a Hungarian flag bandeau top.\n- Pack my crap for college.\n- Move into my dorm.\n- Skim the freshman reading I’ve neglected.\n- Buy a rug.\n- Practice up on a little bit of dance and stretch so I’m not screwed for the dance call.\n- Get headshots taken and printed.\n- Update and print resumes.\nAnd because of all these things, I cannot go to the wedding convention thingy I wanted to go to which is on my friggin move in day.\nLord just shoot me now.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Jumping Rope – Martial Arts Conditioning Exercise\nJumping rope is a great way to build martial arts stamina. This cardio exercise burns lots of calories and is great if you can’t get outdoors (i.e. on a rainy day). Jumping rope also helps with your agility and makes you lighter on your feet.\nAll stretches and exercises should be supervised by a trained martial arts instructor in order to prevent injuries and to ensure the proper technique is utilized. For additional exercises, please visit the main Conditioning section.\nJumping Rope Exercise Program\nTaekwondo Master Jumping Rope", "label": "No"}
{"text": "You can implement your own functionality to process audio frames captured by the RTC SDK before encoding and transmission.\nYou have used the RTC SDK for audio and video communications in your project.\nTo process a custom audio source on Android:\nCreate your audio processor by calling\nIAudioProcessoraccording to your business needs.\nregisterLocalAudioProcessorto use the audio processor.\nThe following diagram displays how the audio is transferred when you process the custom audio source:\nTo disable the audio processing, call\nregisterLocalAudioProcessor and set the parameter to\nCreate an audio processor compatible with the RTC SDK in terms of parameters (the sample rate and the audio channel). For details, see the API reference.\nYou are not allowed to alter the format and length.\nView API details and parameters here.\nUpdated 4 months ago", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Coming together as one voice in our homes, community, schools and workplaces is the only way we can make a difference and stop domestic violence. Your donation will help us create voices through the arts that will allow survivors and victims to tell their story. It will help bring together existing programs and help educate through the arts to bring awareness of help, courses and voices of those who are already doing great work in this arena.\nYour donation will help us create grants in the form of film, documentary, music, fine arts and moving image to amplify change as well as creating online support material. We cannot let Domestic Violence be the silent killer in our society anymore.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Commentary Mar. 6, 2014\nReading The FINRA Enforcement Tea Leaves\nFor several years the FINRA enforcement arm grew bigger and bigger. Its staff increased. The number of actions increased. The number of fines increased. The number of bars and suspensions increased. And the number of litigations/arbitrations was on the rise. Last year, however, appears to have finally fared better for the brokers. What do those numbers mean?", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "In this very episode we pick up where we left off, the group licks their wounds after the fight with the skeletons. The group travels into the room and found the high Priest of this temple, who’s body seemed strange. The group then traveled around the temple, and found a mysterious mirror, with strange wording on it. In which Nova got annoyed and smashed the mirror, annoying the group, but as the group argued over what the mirror could be, Nova impatiently moves forward down a hall way and finds a secret door, which opens up to a room full of mirrors and he appears to have his soul sucked out. What happens next? Listen in and find out!\nCast of Heroes\n- Steven playing – Seran\n- Geoff playing – Lord Lee\n- Corey playing – Nova\n- Jakob playing – Shep\n- David playing – Old Gnomey\n- Rick playing – Lord Torvald\n- Vince is the Game Master\nWant to support us?\nPodcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:00 — 78.3MB) | Embed\nSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | Email | RSS\nPodcast (deadwinterpodcast): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:00 — 78.3MB) | Embed\nSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Winners for IJ Jewellers’ Choice Design Awards 2011 Announced!\nA glimmering, entertainment filled evening formed the perfect backdrop for the unveiling of the winners of MJGF-IJ Jewellers’ Choice Design Awards 2011, powered by GIA. The competition which commenced on August 1, 2011 concluded amidst great excitement and fanfare on December 10, 2011 at the ITC, Grand Maratha in Mumbai. The evening saw the who’s who of the jewellery industry gather to applaud the winners. Eminent personalities from the gem and jewellery trade like Rajiv Jain, Ishu Datwani, Varuna.D Jani, Bachchraj Bamalwa, Padam Sacheti and many more graced the occasion with their presence. In between the various award and fashion show segments, the audience enjoyed foot tapping dance performances by fusion dance troops. The winners for the various categories are:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Joondalup Festival 2024 wouldn’t be possible without the support of our incredible sponsors and partners.\nThank you for giving back to the arts and cultural community of Western Australia.\nSTAY IN THE JOONDA-LOOP.\nSign up for the latest Joondalup Festival updates, special offers and more of the good stuff ✨\nThe City of Joondalup acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of this land, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. We recognise the culture of the Noongar people and the unique contribution they make to the Joondalup region and Australia. We pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging, as well as all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Return to KDHX.org\nNancy Kranzberg talks with artists, performers and movers and shakers in the arts community. Interviews cover music, visual arts, dance, literature and performance.\nview in iTunes and subscribe\nGuest Andy Hahn, Executive Director of the Campbell House Museum, tells us about the mission of the museum as it enters its 75th year.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "While receiving a bachelor's in Film and Television at Boston University, Jarman also devoted his time to developing his performing skills by acting in and directing countless plays, musicals and short films.\nHe further honed his craft by studying abroad with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England, in a program through New York University. While there, he studied with industry professionals on Shakespeare text and performance, stage combat, theater history, and Renaissance dance.\nJarman's unique training, a mix of both classical and modern techniques, enables him to add a professional and entertaining quality to all the voice over projects he performs.\nClick the \"Experience\" tab at the top to browse through Jarman's training and past projects in different mediums. Click the \"Voice Over Samples\" tab to hear what his voice might sound like on your next project!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Former Holby City Amanda Mealing\"s new role: \"I was mugged but I wasn\"t going to play a hero for real\"\nFormer Holby City star Amanda Mealing”s new role: “I was mugged but I wasn”t going to play a hero for real”\n1:17 AM on 19th August 2011\n“A role I couldn”t resist”: Amanda Mealing as Colonel Eleanor Grant\nAction-hero: Richard Armitage with Orla Brady\nPressures: Amanda Mealing, pictured here in Holby City, decided the pressure of a commute was too much to continue with the BBC show", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Get a look at the very first teaser for Marvel's \"Ant-Man\" and catch the full thing during the two-hour series premiere of \"Marvel's Agent Carter\" Tuesday, January 6 beginning at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC!\nCurrent ye@r *\nLeave this field empty\nNotify me of follow-up comments by email.\nNotify me of new posts by email.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Words starting with: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z\nAdjective: sensed senst\n- Detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues\n\"a sensed presence in the room raised goosebumps on her arms\";\n- Perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles\n\"He sensed the wind\";\n- Detect some circumstance or entity automatically\n\"This robot can sense the presence of people in the room\"; \"particle detectors sense ionization\"\n- Become aware of not through the senses but instinctively\n\"I sense his hostility\";\n- smell, smell out\n\"I sensed the real meaning of his letter\"\nAnagrams created from the word sensed", "label": "No"}
{"text": "VDAC8 output | Cypress Semiconductor\nSummary: 35 Replies, Latest post by Piona on 05 Aug 2015 07:01 AM PDT\nVerified Answers: 3\n28 Jul 2015 02:46 AM PDT#1\nWhat is the output lavel of the VDAC8?\nI am inputting ~2V P-P signal to ADC filtering it and output threw VDAC8- the output is 150mV P-P riding on ~50Hz noise.\nIs it expectable results?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Video & Audio Recording\nQuestions about Video & Audio Recording in the YouStar Studios on Alkek One? Ask here!\nOpen now! Alkek One’s YouStar Studios include a suite of multimedia technologies that enable users to create video and audio content. Students can reserve one of the video or audio recording studios, two audio recording studios on a first-come, first-served basis.\nThe YouStar Studios will offer workshops throughout the semester, as well as one-on-one consultations, both which will require prior reservation.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Radio Player and recorder of 100,000 Radios + records targeted music from radios of 12,000,000 Songs of 1,450,000 Album of 3,000,000 Artists. Auto-Tagging ID3, Album Cover, lyrics. Music Organizer + Music Universe. Cloud-Manager + Podcasts + MusicTV\nAiseesoft Screen Recorder is used to record your computer screen. You can use this screen recording software to record video and audio on your computer. It is currently the easiest but most convenient screen recording software.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I have some speakers connected via the headphone jack and want to control the bass etc. Currently all music is played through iTunes.\nclosed as off-topic by Nifle, bwDraco, Kevin Panko, mdpc, random♦ Jan 22 '15 at 3:26\nThis question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:\nI'm not sure you're suggesting that you want to control just the EQ of your music while playing in iTunes or if you want to control the EQ of the whole system.\niTunes has an equalizer you can access via Command-2 and contains several presets. If you're looking for more bass, try the Rock preset.\nIf you want to control EQ for the whole system you'll have to hijack the audio. I found this post that provides some steps though I have not tried them myself.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I’ve never fit in,\nalways been made for something else.\nThey were all a big put together puzzle,\nand I was a piece in the wrong box.\nI wasn’t part of their puzzle.\nAnd I never will be,\nI’ve flip flopped around,\npuzzle box to puzzle box,\nbut although I nearly fit in some,\nI was never quite the right fit.\nI was made of originality and maybe someday I’ll find the puzzle for which I am the missing piece for.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Bikram Choudhary News\nAnil Kapoor flexes his muscles for `24′!\nThe Tezz actor is gearing up for the Indian version of the American action series. But this time it involves way too much sweat…..literally\nAfter playing the President of Pakistan in an episode of the American version of 24, Anil Kapoor is now gearing up to play the ‘hero’ in the Indian adaption of the television series. Click here to read more", "label": "No"}
{"text": "You all know I love contrast so here’s a Black and White with some sugar flowers.\nHope you like it.\nI tried so many backgrounds for this but nothing really made me tic until the red… he he..\nI truly love this one.. though very dynamic\nand of course this one", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Mary J. Blige could walk two Oscars on March 4.\nShe has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dee Rees’ Mudbound and Best Original Song.\nMudbound is also up for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography.\nMary J. Blige (Mudbound) is the first person ever to be nominated for a performance and original song in the same year, for the same film\nThe 90th Annual Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, air on ABC March 4.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "1) Is there anyway to get the number of lines in a text file without having to scan through the whole file?\n2) How do I compare if a date falls in between a starting date with a duration. eg. Starting date = 1st March Duration 5 days. check if a user entered date falls in between it.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "EllaGilbert (Ella Gilbert) - Happy Shitty Halloween!!!\n5 286 views\nIm gonna go dowwn on my knees and take a shit with my ass facing the cam. Oh it feels so good! Im so eager to finger my shitty asshole now so I dont waste any time and stick my fingers deep inside my hot and full of shit asshole. Im gonna add finger by finger untill I fist my ass and once my hand is all covered in shit Im gonna smear it all over my face. So much better! Its now the time to make my lovely ass cum!\nDate: May 22, 2022", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Creative's Fatal1ty headphones may not tout any particularly unique or fanciful design features, but they are comfortable to use over extended periods of time and include a detachable microphone for quick and easy voice commands.\n- Good microphone, comfortable, microphone is detachable and easily adjustable, in-line remote\n- Audio in general lacks substance, music tests proved these headphones aren't suited to music\nAlthough the sound quality is better than adequate, it's not fantastic. Our main concern is that the audio lacks substance. However, this was more noticeable in music tests than gaming tests, so it's less of an issue here. The microphone is easily positioned and the cushioning makes them very comfortable.\nCo-designed with Jonathan \"Fatal1ty\" Wendel, the Creative Fatal1ty gaming headphones are typical over-the-head style headphones with a cup design for the earpiece. The design is quite comfortable to wear; each cup has a thick padding that does a good job of cushioning the ear and a large, soft cushion protects the top of your head from the plastic headband. We tested them over long periods of time without any notable discomfort or aggravation. This is a simple but important feature because, no matter how good a set of headphones sound, you're not going to be able to wear them for long if they're too uncomfortable.\nThe cup design aims at passively cancelling external noise sources, which essentially means the headphones try to create a seal around the ear, preventing sound from entering the cup. The Creative Fatal1ty headphones do a fair job of this, though any sharp noise within a few metres will be audible. For instance, clicking your fingers at arms length, while listening to music at full volume, will still be audible.\nThe sound quality is fairly basic with clear tones in the mid-range, as long as the audio track isn't too bass heavy. We found that using audio tracks with even a small amount of bass tended to flood the whole spectrum with a muddy low-frequency noise. In games it's less of an issue; in fact it's barely noticeable. However, don't buy these headphones with the intention of using them for music as they're not really suited.\nWe found the clearest audio was in the mid-range and in-game audio never sounded distorted or overly hollow, unlike our music tests. The only thing that really bothered us was the feeling that the Fatal1ty's output was, if anything, light and lacking in substance.\nThe detachable microphone is a nice piece of hardware. It employs noise cancellation with an easily adjustable and very malleable wire that allows you to position the microphone perfectly for your needs. The 3.5mm jack uses a plastic key, so to speak, to force the connection into one orientation only. This prevents the jack from slipping or twisting in its socket and repositioning the microphone unintentionally.\nOur microphone was picked up well in games, transmitting vocal commands in a loud, clear voice. Of course, if you have no need for the microphone then it's quite simple to unplug it and it's gone. Alternatively you can mute the microphone using the Fatal1ty's in-line remote, which also has audio volume controls.\nBest Deals on PCWorld\n- HeadphonesView all »\n- Mobile PhonesView all »\n- TabletsView all »\n- MP3 PlayersView all »\n- Home EntertainmentView all »", "label": "No"}
{"text": "[Q] Weird double sound on bluetooth headphones (BSH555)\nI just bought a bluetooth headset and after connecting it with my phone, it sounds weird.. as if i hear things double.... as if the virtual room effect is turned on. When i send a message i would normaly hear \"kit\", but now i hear \"tekit\" (which is the closest i can get to explain the sound in writing)\nFirst thing i tried was connecting it to a different device... same problem. I've tried a S4, S3, S3 mini and a Note 10.1... all have that same problem. So first thing to conclude, there is something wrong with the headphones......\nBut then i tried an iPhone..... it worked fine :/\nSo it seems to be about the basic way android sends sound to the headphones.. anything i can do?\nP.S. these headphones can be connected with a jack, in case it's out of battery. If I do so, sound sounds fine.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I am in class learning about the current issues connected to Indigenous Enviornmental Studies and I couldn’t help myself from laughing at HEAVY METALS in our soil deposited by MEGA DAMS.\nI know… I am awful.\nI’ve decided someone needs to start an Eco-Metal band called MEGA DAM.\nStart a band with me or steal my idea and show me what you do with it.* This is me being super-serious.\n* better give me cred, yo.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Music, Micros & BBQ\nName: Music, Micros & BBQ\nDate: June 16, 2018\nTime: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT\nMusic, Micros & BBQ returns this summer with live music, regional micro brews and all-you-can-eat barbecue. With tunes from indie style, to blues and beer that comes from the local breweries, the night will only get better.\n- June 16 – Music by The Powers Band with beer from Post Falls Brewing Company.\n- July 21 – Music by Tuck Foster & The Tumbling Dice with beer from Laughing Dog out of Sandpoint, Idaho.\n- August 18 – Music by Isaac Walton & Current Flow with beer from One Tree Cider.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Being one of New Zealand's top jugglers, Lisa has had many experiences performing around the world. In 2013, Lisa became the first female juggler from New Zealand to have performed in Las Vegas after being invited to perform at The World Juggling Federation's 'World Juggling Entertainment Showcase'. Since then she has had many more experiences performing in Las Vegas, Hollywood, and touring all across New Zealand.\nPast performances include Rainbows End Theme Park, Sky City, Loritz Circus, Circus Aotearoa, World Juggling Federation.\nLisa is available to perform for stage shows, circus shows, corporate events, festivals, film, music videos and more. Please note that Lisa DOES NOT PERFORM AT BIRTHDAY PARTIES.\nYou can choose from these different performance options:\nJuggling act for stage (6 mins) - Up to 3 a day\nBall Juggling act for stage (5 mins) - Up to 3 a day\nRoving Juggling - Up to 3 hours a day\nJuggling Workshop (1 hour) - Up to 2 a day\nIdeal for: corporate function, private party, stage show, circus, festival\nHi Robyn and Pete\nThe bands and Lisa were great thanks! Very easy to work with and professional - despite the heat!!\nSculpture in the Gardens\nYes Lisa was terrific, many thanks.\nCommunications & Events Manager\nMedical Technology Association of New Zealand\nLisa was great, a really lovely young lady and we would be happy to have her back again on another occasion.\nSt John Northern Region\n[powr-form-builder label=\"Lisa Komatsubara Enquiry\"]", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I was sleeved on May 29, 2019. It was one of the best decisions I have ever made! I feel so much better already. Seeing the weight melt away has given me the motivation to make the life style changes I didn’t make before. Thank you Dr Mailapur and all of his staff for giving me the tool to create a better life.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Top Puzzles And Brainteasers websites performance rankings in 2023\nLast updated: January 31, 2023\nTop 10 Website performance rankings across the world in 2023. These websites include trivia, allscrabblewords, danword, wordplays, scrabblewordfinder, wordunscrambler, wort-suchen, heywise, thejigsawpuzzles and games. See realtime performance performance and uptime status of each website along with User metrics and Certificate expiry details.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "1-877-4-SPRUCE | email@example.com\nAircraft Spruce & Specialty Co.\nCorona, CA | Chicago, IL\nWasilla, AK | Peachtree City, GA\nBrantford, ON Canada\nFREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $350 (USA ONLY - SOME EXCLUSIONS APPLY) | 877-4-SPRUCE\nE-MAG AUTO 4 LEAD KIT (NO ADAPTER)\nMFR Model# EMA75001\nAuto harness with 4 lead kit and no adapters.\n- Customers Also Viewed\n- Frequently Purchased With\nKit comes with 2 long and 2 short wires, not as shown in the picture. Length is appropriate for front and rear cylinders\nJuly 26, 2017", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Smoking at our parks\nOriginal post made by Smiley Face, Del Prado, on Jun 28, 2013\nGood news for downtown Livermore and the performing arts\nBy Tim Hunt | 3 comments | 1,144 views\nNovember Ballot Prop 2 – Devils or Angels in the Details?\nBy Tom Cushing | 3 comments | 1,142 views\nBy Gina Channell-Allen | 5 comments | 242 views", "label": "No"}
{"text": "2010 Preakness Stakes\nMore photos: 2010 Preakness Day in pictures | Reader/Social Sun Preakness pics | 2010 Preakness week | Infield through the years | Preakness fashions\nPhotos: Infield party scene | Your #Preakness photos\nOxbow wins | InfieldFest concerts | Celebrities | Fashion\nAlso see: Videos | Bikini contest | Infield debauchery | All galleries\nAnd they're off\nThe horses break from the starting gate in the 135th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Like everyone, you too would be interested in doing this set of free yoga exercises meant for just you! These free yoga fitness exercises will instruct.\nWomen's Fitness Programs | Workout Motivation | Women's Muscle Building | Bikini Body | \"Look back at your progress and let yourself be proud of how far you have come.\" YOU. ARE. KILLING. IT ✨ #FITNESSPROGRAMS #workoutmotivationgirlbikinibodies", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Free download Ù eBook, ePUB or Kindle PDF é S.B. Sheeran\nExual desires Megan must decide which relationship to fight for her safe relationship with Phillip or her passionate relationship with.\nS.B. Sheeran é 8 Read & Download\nReturning CustomerNds her in the arms of a new friend D she uickly develops feelings for the girl and gives in to her passions Confused by her newfound s.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We love our topic Happily Ever After, we can role play all our favourite characters, dress up and act out the stories. Who are we today?\nSave my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.\nNotify me of follow-up comments by email.\nNotify me of new posts by email.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Northlight, Remy Bumppo announce new seasons; new play about Lunt and Fontanne\nNorthlight Theatre will stage a new play by Jeffrey Hatcher about the Broadway legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Called \"Ten Chimneys\" (as is the historic home that was their former Wisconsin retreat), the new play will imagine what happens when a very young Uta Hagen arrives in the midst of Broadway's royal couple. The play will open in Skokie next March.\nAlso on tap for 2011-12 at Northlight, along with the previously announced Stephen Schwartz musical \"Snapshots\":\n- Frank Higgins' \"Black Pearl Sings,\" a show featuring a-capella renditions of rare American folk songs. It will star E. Faye Butler and open in January 2012.\n- \"Seasons Greetings.\" A new production of the much-loved Alan Ayckbourn play directed by BJ Jones. It will open in November.\nThe Remy Bumppo Theatre Company will open its 2011-12 season in September with Eugene O'Neill's \"Mourning Becomes Electra.\" The Marivaux comedy \"Changes of Heart\" follows in November. The season concludes with \"Chesapeake,\" the solo piece by Lee Blessing that will feature Greg Matthew Anderson.\nAll three shows at Remy Bumppo will be directed by Timothy Douglas, the incoming artistic director.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This will be week 4 for me but since i have started carrington college it has changed my life for the bettter. I actually have some thing to wake up for in the morning. I have met so many amazing people at carrington. The teachers are Amazing, they have helped me out so much. Mrs.Jance is An Amazing teacher she has taught me so much and she is so very helpful. This school has done so much for me im so glad i chose to come to carrington college.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Welcome to Drawception! It's like the \"Telephone Game\", but with drawing. Join the Fun!\nSamus is singing in the rain. Also, no rain.\n24 player public game completed on December 29th, 2013\n1,170 11 1 day\nRobot listening to headphone Music :)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Napoleonic & WWII Minature Wargaming\nMerry Christmas to you!\nCheers Phil, have a good one!\nPeace, Love and Joy to you and your family, Steve!\nAnd the same to you Peter. Best wishes.Steve\nMerry Christmas Steve!\nMerry CHristmas MIchael! Have a good one my friend\nWill all spammers please note that your pointless ramblings will not be published so do us all a favour and feck off. To my friends and fellow gamers please feel free.....", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I want to show user a popup like shown below when he clicks on a \"Download music\" link?\nIf I use following code then after clicking on a link opens up browser embedded Music player like Apple RealTIme..\n<a href=\"../mp3/horse.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click to download</a>\nHow can I prevent browser from running Music (Without disabling/removing this plugin).\nI want my browser should download Music and should not play it!\nWarm regards, AL.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL\nTax-free art districts. Exempts from the gross retail and use taxes the sale of original and creative works of art in an arts and cultural district. Provides that an arts and cultural district must be established by a local economic development commission and be certified by the Indiana arts commission. Exempts from state and local adjusted gross income tax the income of a writer, a composer, or an artist who has a business located in an arts and cultural district. Provides that the income tax exemption applies to that part of the individual's income that is derived from sources within the arts and cultural district and is attributable to original and creative works of art created within the district.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Listening to music and singing along in the car is an excellent pastime while driving. Many of us love music because it moves us. And that leads some of us to install a car audio system in our vehicles. But what good will it do us if we cannot attain the best sound from the system? And for you to achieve the best sound from your car amp setting, there are several things you need to do. Firstly, keep in mind that distortion is the cause of all audio problems.\nIt not only destroys the subs and speakers in your car but also your eardrums. It usually sounds like hissing, crackling, crunching, or flapping, so you cannot miss it, and it interferes with the original distinct sound of musical instruments. This article will guide you through improving the overall sound quality of your car audio system.\nTable of Contents\n- Does a Car Amp improve Sound quality?\n- How to Adjust Car Amp for Best Sound: Ideal Car Amp Settings\n- The Best Amp Settings For Bass in Your Car\nDoes a Car Amp improve Sound quality?\nThe Car Amp does a great deal in improving the overall sound quality of a car. The car stereo amplifier works to boost your vehicle’s audio sound and improve music intelligibility and clarity. Even at higher volumes, the Amp can completely overcome other sources of noise. Therefore, the Car Amp allows you to enjoy your music inside your car regardless of outside noises.\nWhat should the gain on my Amp be set at?\nWe all want the best sound quality in our car. Here’s how you can set the car amp to achieve that.\n- Ensure the volume of the car stereo is at zero. There should be no sound distortions at the beginning. Reduce the amp gain to the minimum level.\n- That will mean that the amp does not amplify any signal from the stereo. You can then play some music, a radio station, or a CD. You should expect not to hear anything as the volume is at zero.\n- Afterward, turn the stereo to about 2/3 of the volume. This volume is the ideal range as it does not overwork the stereo. Overworking the stereo could result in distortion. From here, turn up the gain clockwise to your maximum volume, without any distortion.\n- If you hear any distortion, turn down the amp until there is none. Your amp gain is now set- you can adjust the volume to normal levels and enjoy the music.\nWhat is the Best Sound Setting for the Car Equalizer?\nThere is no ‘best setting for car equalizer.’ It all comes down to your goals, and ultimately, we can all agree that the best settings are those that allow you to tailor the sound to please your ears. However, there are general guidelines that can be of help.\nHow to Adjust Car Amp for Best Sound: Ideal Car Amp Settings\nWell, there is nothing more satisfying than having the best sound from your car audio system. So, if you have been wondering how you can adjust the car amp for the best sound? Here are some of the settings you can apply to achieve that. The steps below are simple, and the best Amp settings for bass in the car for the best sound.\n- The first step is to eliminate the distortion. Distortion is an enemy of good pure sound. You, therefore, need to remove it first before you go to the other steps.\n- You can do this by setting the gain at low and then playing music while turning up the receiver’s volume until you hear some distortion of the music.\n- Next, reduce the volume until the music plays cleanly again and note that volume. This setting is essential as it is the maximum volume that your care receiver can reach and play cleanly.\n- From here, turn up the amp gain till the distortion is heard again, and then reduce it until no more distortion is heard. This action is to set the gain amp so that you can reduce the receiver’s volume to a comfortable level.\n- And now you are ready for bass. It would be best if you turned the amp gain to the lowest level and then switch on the sub’s LPF and set it at its maximum.\n- Turn off the bass boost, if any, and set the remote level control to the middle position.\n- Next, play some music via the receiver at one-quarter volume turning up the gain to a point where the subwoofer sound entirely overpowers other speakers without any distortion.\n- You can also use the bass boost and turn it up to see what it sounds like. In case of any distortion, lower the amp gain immediately until it goes away.\nHow to Tune a Car Amp for Mids and Highs\nIt is always advisable to correctly setup your car audio system to get its full potential. This is how you can tune your Car Amp for mids and highs:\n- Tune the gain control amp first. When set to high, the mids and highs will be distorted and clip at the higher volume levels.\n- You will have to make use of your hearing sense to set the amp successfully.\n- You can play some music and turn the amp gain halfway down.\n- The volume should be turned to almost maximum and then back down until you can hear some distortion.\n- Go back to the amp, and increase the gain until the distortion goes away totally.\nHow to Tune a Monoblock Car Amp for Best Sound\n- To tune a monoblock amp, you need first to keep all the head unit flat settings. And then turn up the volume to the maximum without any distortion.\n- All the bass boosts and gains should be at a minimum, and then turn the LPF to the max.\n- Play a 50Hz 6Db tone on a CD while increasing the gains until a change in output is heard.\n- Adjust the subsonic filter to the same level as the subwoofer.\n- Set the LPF at 80Hz, and keep your subwoofer phase to zero degrees if typically mounted (if not, keep it at 180 degrees).\n- Continue adjusting in the same way until you attain your desired output.\nHPF and LPF Settings on the Head Unit\nTurning on the HPF (high pass filter) allows bass frequencies to be blocked out from door speakers. Most Amps make it switchable, giving you an option to adjust it to the frequencies you want. Therefore, you can turn the clickable switch to the HPF setting, activating the filter.\nUsually, it is adjustable right from a minimum of 80Hz to 200Hz. The recommended HPF setting is 80Hz—anything below that a subwoofer can handle. You can then set the LPF at 80Hz or below to allow it to play bass only.\nThe Best Amp Settings For Bass in Your Car\nTuning your amplifier to produce the bass with good sound quality is easy for even stubborn. It requires tuning your speakers, subwoofers, and amp to match the sound and not sound weird at all. Here are quick steps to get the best amp settings for bass in your car.\nStep 1: Reduce the Distortion\nFirst of all, set the amp volume low and increase the receiver’s volume gradually while playing some music if you start hearing distortion or noise, revers back the receiver’s volume unless you hear the clean sound.\nStep 2: The Low-pass Filter & the Subwoofer Settings\nAdjust your receiver volume to about one quarter and then start increasing the subwoofer volume. until the speakers are overpowered. Now adjust your low-pass filter until it reduces the high and mid-range frequency.\nStep 3: Adjust the Bass Boost Filter\nIf your amp has a bass-boost button available, then adjust the bass boos to increase the bass level to the desired bass. Please note, that a slight change in the bass boost button can increase or decrease the boos tremendously.\nWe all love to listen to music in our cars. Hopefully, this article has explained in detail how you can adjust your car stereo for the best sound. With that put in place, you can enjoy the full potential of your car’s audio system.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Podcast: Play in new window | Download\nSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | TuneIn |\nEpisode 205: “Gladiator” (2000): Movie Review\nThis week, Derek and Chris go back and watch the 2000 Ridley Scott film “Gladiator” starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix.\nFor the trivia segment of the show, Chris asks Derek trivia questions about adult film titles based on legitimate movie titles.\nYou can contact Chris & Derek:\nTheme song – “Fantasy Life” by H-Beam provided by Music Alley.\n“Top of the Pops” theme – “Warm Up” by Alain Galarneau provided by Music Alley.</h", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|Games||Free||T M D MEDIA AGENCY SRL||iPhone, iPad, iPod|\nOur little girl wants to learn and play and only you'll be able to help her.\nThis game has many details and you have to be careful.\nFollow all instructions of this game for girls.\n- Our little girl is ready to go to kindergarten;\n- Help her to get to the kindergarten;\n- You have to learn her the letters;\n- Help her write a few words;\n- The little girl wants to play in the park;\n- You have to help her to skate in swing;\n- You have to help her to learn colors;\n- Prepare a picnic;\n- Girl wants to eat more fruits;\n- Apples are her favorite fruit;\n- Now she wants to fish;\n- Certainly with your help you will be able to catch this many fish;\n- Plant nuts;\n- You must be very careful as to peanuts planted very correctly;\n- Decorate the playground;\n- You did a good job, you are a friend.\nThank you for help, please come back daily through this game.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Specializes in:Film audio\nOther skillsgame Audio, VR, Composing\nHighlighted references• Pixar Animation Studios\n• Oscar Nominated Short Borrowed Time\n• Oscar Nominated Short The Dam Keeper\nAbout Andrew VernonSound designer | Vernon Sound and Music | USA | California\nAndrew Vernon is a sound designer and music editor whose work has included Oscar-nominated shorts and feature films. His creative work has been showcased in various film festivals, including Cannes, Annecy, Berlin, Palm Springs, Austin International, and many others. Having attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music graduate program as a pianist and composer, Andrew brings musical training and keen perspective to sound design and music editing.\nRecently, Andrew finished the sound design and mix for the short How to Paint Your Rainbow by Director Erick Oh, The House of Colors by award-winning animator Nicolas Villarreal, Borrowed Time, created by Pixar artists Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lladj, as well as The Dam Keeper, an animated short crafted by Pixar art directors Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi.\nAndrew is currently working at Pixar Animation Studios as a sound designer and music editor. He has worked on Cars 3, Toy Story 3, Cars 2, Brave, Monsters University, and The Blue Umbrella.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "When you care, it shows. What better way to express your thanks than with these colorful veggie pun postcards? Save paper and mail a personal note without wasting an envelope!\n24 postcards (8 of each design) come with each set, unless otherwise noted. The back of each postcard has the Project Open Hand address and weight of the applicable vegetables used each week in client meals. If you’d prefer a particular style(s), please make a note in the notes section of your order. Postcards are 5x7\".\n100% of the proceeds benefit Project Open Hand’s meals with love for sick and elderly neighbors.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "LOL. You guys are going to get sick of me. hahaha...So, I have this VO I did and they keep sending me revisions asking for the music bed to be turned down? I don't have a music bed on my track and I don't hear anything. I keep just sending back the same VO audio over and over. Help? Thanks!\nPlease sign in to leave a comment.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Separate names with a comma.\nAny Real Madrid scouts watching?\nnot since Dzecho\ncan’t be the saviour every game\nunless the bars open\nhow come the scum forwards score for fun?\ntouch of mcpointy?\nWe never just have one or two players struggling, either all play well or the whole team plays crap\nmust be someone better at the club?\nEveryone knows he’s not a left back....why play him there?\nthey usually do\nis he playing?\nhe was tripped", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Just something small I made in my spare time 🙂\nWOW! I did not expect PewDiePie to play my game! 😀\nDon’t forget, you can play it free on GameJolt here:\nSweetielise just played Dungeon Nightmares on twitch with some amusing reactions! 🙂\nKeep them coming!\nI have put up a version of Dungeon Nightmares on Gamejolt which you can play for free here:\nIt is the same as the mobile version but with a few improvements in the graphics where possible.\nStill just as scary though!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "play ktis music - 5202 Presidents Court\nPlikten Kallar. By PodCon. Jan 23, 2021 | 2 hr 33 mins. Play Episode. 0522 Cyrus Epiphany AVSNITT 22 - Plikten Kallar by PodCon. More from this podcast 1.\nDesign Your Podcast Cover Art: Good podcast cover art will perform the same function as a movie poster, enticing listeners to check out your show. 8. The popularity of podcasting has skyrocketed. Statistics from Edison Research and Triton Digital showed that 55% of Americans age 12 and older listened to a podcast in 2020. According to 2021 2020-08-17 · The best music podcasts are equal parts fascinating and addictive, telling the stories behind the music and breaking down what’s in the secret sauce. Se hela listan på blog.spreaker.com transition music for my podcast. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.\nMusic In Transition podcast - Player FM\nBrowse our unlimited library of stock transition audio and start downloading today with a subscription plan. Soundstripe ($11.25/mo) If you use a lot of new music on your podcast and don't want to worry about each license's limitations, Soundstripe could be the perfect option for you.\nFinal program for the Sustainability Festival May 26 published\nA resource of the Oregon Transition Technical Assistance Network.\nIn fact, I prefer my intro music to be on the quiet\nDownload Podcast sounds 8,978 stock sound clips starting at $2. Download and buy high quality Podcast sound effects. BROWSE NOW >>>\nWhether you need podcast intro music, outro music, segment transactions, background music, or anything else, this is where I start. One cool feature is the Collections section where you can find hand-curated tracks for different uses like “Music For Food Blogs” and “Game Day” – definitely check that out! Get Transition Sounds from Soundsnap, the Leading Sound Library for Unlimited SFX Downloads. There are tons of places to get royalty-free music for podcasts. Whether you need intro tracks, outro music, sound effects, jingles, transitions, or background music these sites have you covered.\nSvensk tecknare marvel\nPodcast Intro stock music and background music 36,066 stock music clips and loops. Production music starting at $5. Download and buy high quality tracks.\nJoin the Period hosted by Gary Orlandus Fuqua Jr. (@thegaryfuqua), a 20-year-old black, queer, trans student and full-time clown, whose commentary is upfront, brutally honest, humorous, honest, and black as hell. 2016-06-21 · We know how important great podcast intro music is. Don’t settle on average and if your budget is tight at the start make sure to only use top quality podcast intro.\n3d touch iphone xr\nom land yoga brewer maine\nbetongarbetare utbildning östergötland\nmarkus kallifatides theodor\nhandelsbanken byta bank\nREAL Shuffle Player - Audio & Music Player – Appar på\nIntro Music Create even more, even faster with Storyblocks. Browse our unlimited library of stock transition audio and start downloading today with a subscription plan. Soundstripe ($11.25/mo) If you use a lot of new music on your podcast and don't want to worry about each license's limitations, Soundstripe could be the perfect option for you.\napfs partition recovery\nThe Archives Podcast Podcast on Podbay\nGet Transition Sounds from Soundsnap, the Leading Sound Library for Unlimited SFX Downloads.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Our Thierry Mugler Fougere Furieuse samples and decants are rebottled by Scent Split from genuine fragrance bottles. Scent Split is a wholly independent entity not affiliated, connected, or associated with Thierry Mugler.\nFougere FurieuseSold Out\nOriginal bottle not included with sample/decant purchase. Scent Split rebottles the genuine fragrance into smaller bottles.\nTop notes are Herbal Notes and Fern; middle notes are Geranium and Neroli; base notes are Oakmoss, Coumarin and Amber.\nIs very beautiful and I'm going to order a larger sample until I can afford a full bottle. Definitely FBW.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I installed Juno on a 2017 13-inch macbook pro. Everything else is working fine except for speakers and the headphone jack. There is no sound output from either the speakers or the headphone jack after setting the volume to 100%.\nHere are some things I have tried:\nI have installed all system updates from the app center.\nI've tried killing and starting pulse audio with\nI have also made sure my sound settings set the sound output device to speakers.\nI have also used pulse audio volume control as other posts about audio have suggested to make sure no outputs are muted.\nIm not sure if its helpful to know, but I've setup the laptop to dual boot with OSX, where audio works fine. Also, when using pulse audio volume control, the blue sound bar above the \"Advanced\" shows sound activity when I change the output volume.\nEDIT: I used a USB-C to headphone jack adapter and I get audio! At least this works!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Bush Theater department performed their Fall play, Pet Tales, last month with two lively performances. The first performance was for Stone Oak and Las Lomas kindergarten students while the second performance was for Bush students, faculty, family, and friends.\nKodie-Elise Sheriff interviews Ben Larson and Emiliano Caceres about the upcoming spring play called “Who Poisoned his Meatball?”. In this interview, Emiliano and Ben share information on what the play is about, what roles they are playing, and an inside look on what is to be expected.\nThe Bush Theater department performed their second play of the year with all proceeds benefitting cancer prevention. Her Senior Year was a one act play that chronicles the life and death of a student battling cancer. The students had two performances and dazzled audiences with spectacular acting and production.\nThe Bush Theater students just finished their performance of “Into the Woods”. The performance was spectacular and everyone was impressed with the musical performance. Check out the pictures by clicking on the link and the thumbnails below the post.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Head-Fi.org › Jlox1's profile\nJlox1's Community Profile\n|Forum Post Count:\n||1 week ago\n|Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):\n|What I do for a living:\n||Sennheiser HD 201, 202, 205, JVC GUMY, and some Sony V150.\nJlox1's Recent Activity\nNoontec RIO, IEM by Noontec\nJlox1 posted in this thread in Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear... 3/31/13 at 8:16pm | 21 replies | 3928 views\nThe Basshead Club\nJlox1 posted in this thread in Members' Lounge (General Discussion) 2/24/13 at 5:58pm | 6415 replies | 195805 views\n++ FULL-SIZE HEADPHONE RECOMMENDATIONS THREAD++ i.e. Don't start a new thread: ask for advice HERE! [Please read OP]\nJlox1 posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 1/13/13 at 7:23pm | 28994 replies | 833217 views\nNeed Opinions From The Experts\nJlox1 posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 10/1/12 at 9:44pm | 1 replies | 72 views\nComfortable Bassy Headphone?\nJlox1 posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 8/16/12 at 12:47pm | 4 replies | 248 views\nBeats Audio Laptop.\nJlox1 posted in this thread in Computer Audio 8/16/12 at 12:44am | 26 replies | 7480 views\nJlox1 posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 4/11/12 at 12:41am | 15 replies | 516 views\nShure SRH 750 DJ (Trade)\nJlox1 posted in this thread in Headphones for Sale / Trade 4/10/12 at 9:21pm | 0 replies | 95 views\n1 albumsView All Photos\nJlox1's Forum Signature\nCheck out my online Headphone/ Technology review.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Fifine sent me another one of their products to show off: a set of four wireless microphones, two head-worn and two lavalier, bundled with two wireless transmitters and a receiver! Join me as I take them out of the box and get them hooked up for the first time.\nProduct page #1: https://fifine.cc/product/wireless-microphone-system-k038/\nProduct page #2: https://fifinemicrophone.com/collections/wireless-systems/products/wireless-microphone-system-with-two-headset-lavalier-mics-k038\nAmazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CBYWDZX", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Seller: tomdunne1959 (1,703) 100%, Location: hinckley, Leicestershire, Ships to: GB & many other countries, Item: 152303009750 Brilliant piece of steam punk . Time piece has just one arm as intended. Quality time piece made of brass encased in an alloy body. Runs for weeks without needing winding. Key supplied . A brilliant piece of time keeping kit.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tips and Walkthrough: Candy Crush Soda Level 5982\nCandy Crush Soda Level 5982 Tips\n- Get the bear above the candy string\n- You have only 29 moves.\n- 1 Bears\nSoda Level 5982 guide and cheats:\nThis level has hard difficulty. For this level try to play from right part of the board and make special candy. you will need to use fish or play with striped candy to move the bears.\nLeave a comment", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Center For Integrative Medicine\nWe focus on the individual\nSign up for our Newsletter and stay tuned for upcoming book release this fall!\nDr. Valentin believes that health starts with you!\nEverything in your body works together, it's like an orchestra with all the musicians playing together in harmony!\nIf one instrument is out of tune, the orchestra as a whole is no longer in tune.\nYour body is similar, it plays like an orchestra and needs to stay in tune with all its different parts playing and functioning as a whole!\nWe take a holistic approach to health and healing!\nDr. Valentin, N.M.D.\n16421 N. Tatum Blvd, Suite 129\nPhoenix, AZ 85032", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences\n- PhD, Mathematics, Emory University\n- BS, Mathematics, University of Kentucky\nI am a Ph.D. graduate of Emory University (2018), having worked under the supervision of Ken Ono.\nMy research interests lie primarily in number theory and combinatorics, in particular the theory of partitions, special functions in the orbit of modular forms (q-series mock theta functions, quantum modular forms), and analytic number theory (prime distribution, Riemann zeta function, arithmetic functions, arithmetic density).\nOther active interests include physics (statistical physics, acoustics), mathematical music theory, computational number theory, computational chemistry, history of mathematics, ethnomathematics, philosophy, Egyptology, poetry, astronomy, visual and conceptual art, sound sculpture and electronics.\nIn collaboration with experimental composer Michael G. Maxwell on the Visual and Performing Arts faculty, I sponsor the MTU Mathematics and Music Lab (MML). The goals of the MML are to produce futuristic works of music and installation art, explore music theory using mathematics, and invent new audio hardware and software.\nI am also an indie-pop musician, composer of instrumental and experimental music, recording studio producer/engineer, and co-founder of the elephant 6 Recording Co., a collective of musicians and artists. I invented a \"non-Pythagorean\" musical scale based on logarithms, and used it to compose music. I also invented a mind-controlled synthesizer, and used it to compose music. Apparently my Erdos-Bacon-Sabbath (EBS) number is 6 = 2 + 2 + 2.\nPlease reach out to me if you have any questions, interest or work in mathematics, music or other fields you would like to share with me.\nAreas of Expertise\n- Number Theory", "label": "No"}
{"text": "“A mids-focused specialist with a little bass thump and smooth, relaxed treble (recessed, but still has some detail). Not an especially engaging sound (a little too relaxed maybe). Decent across genres, but tend to congestion during busy/noisy passages. I find them particularly useful for low volume podcast legibility, though with podcasts that are poorly leveled, subject to intrusive volume...” --Raketen\nSpark High Definition In-ear Headphones are the combination of precision acoustics, unique design and expert ergonomic research. Powerful and accurate acoustics are achieved through high performance dynamic driver and special high definition acoustic filter built-in, resulting in full, explosive bass, intense mid-range and clear treble frequency response that will put a smile on your face...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "My 11 year old has been desperately waiting to play the new Halo Master Chief Collection online, Christmas present and all. The only problem is every time he tries to play multiplayer, he gets a “Privileges need to be updated” message and it won’t let him play the game. Yes, I have a Gold Account, Yes, I have tried hard booting, Yes, I have tried starting a campaing and then saving it. None of these work. Any input from anyone would be helpful.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Music and Martinis\nWith World Martini Day on 18th June and World Music Day on 21st June, we have Martinis, we have music and a whole lot more…\nWe start with our two product reviews: Gin D'Azur from sunny Provence and Birch Botanical Spirit from bonny Scotland, before heading over to London's longest serving bar, the American Bar at the Savoy to check out its brand new menu.\nThen it's music, first in our featured book, Booze and Vinyl – A spirited guide to great music and mixed drink by André and Tenaya Darlington, followed by our interview with Jon Nickoll, resident pianist at the American Bar. Listen in to hear to hear about his journey in music, duets with Amy Winehouse and Paul McCartney and special performances live from his piano.\nWhat we're mixing…\nDry Martini (of course)\n3 parts gin (we used Beefeater London Dry)\n1 part dry vermouth (we used Martini Bianco)\nStir ingredients over ice in a chilled mixing glass. Pour into a chilled Martini glass and garnish with a lemon zest.\nFor more from The Cocktail Lovers, including signing up for our digital and print magazine, visit our website, thecocktaillovers.comTo see the products featured in this episode, check out our Instagram page @thecocktaillovers and see their websites below:\nThe Cocktail Lovers theme music is by Travis 'T-Bone' WatsonEdited by Christian Fox\nHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Big C > Clips > Musical Chairs Promo\nWelcome to The Big C, Alan Alda. The veteran actor debuts on the episode \"Musical Chairs,\" as previewed here.\nShow: The Big C Episode: \"Musical Chairs\" (Season 2, Episode 2)\nOriginal Post: The Big C Episode Preview: Welcome, Alan Alda!\nDate Added: 6/28/2011\nYou are posting as a guest. To post as a user, please Login or Register.\nRemember My Info", "label": "No"}
{"text": "✦Aang | Silver Plating with white glitter | 1.75\" in height\n✦Katara | Black Metal Plating | 2\" in height\n✦Sokka | Black Metal Plating | 2\" in height\n✦Toph | Silver Plating | 2\" in height\n✦Appa | Gold Plating | 1.75\" in height\n✧Please note that every pin is handmade so there may be very minor imperfections which may include tiny scuff marks or slight discoloration of metal, but I try to only send out nearly perfect pins. B-grade pins will be offered as well!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Right, I ordered a 象棋 set yesterday, but I don't think it comes with rules! I aim to be able to play by the autumn - does anyone have a good link to a set of basic rules? The wikipedia article (as usual with wikipedia!) quickly descends into overly-technical jargon, so a beginner's guide would be very much appreciated...\nNot sure if your comment is appropriate? Check our Commenting Policy first.\nNew lesson idea? Please contact us.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "An instance that I can attest to is with an auto audio task that one of the leading cars and truck audio suppliers effectively managed to do. It was an auto stereo configuration with 2 head devices installed in the dashboard so as to correctly display the car’s ability to play any music documents from any of the two head systems. In every car audio system, there are really three kinds of audio speakers. The three speakers are vital to each vehicle stereo arrangement and in reality, without them; there is no opportunity for you to listen to any type of noise at all. The very first type of speaker is the loud audio speaker; these types of speakers are primarily what cater to the middle sound ranges, although they are essentially able to reverberate a big variety of sounds, they can only do so in a minimal way. Without the aid of other kinds of speakers, they could not nonetheless fully produce the noise in a clear and also crisp fashion and also the low notes would certainly sound blunt and also blurry while the high notes would appear rather pitchy.\nThe melody and also the typical audio range however would certainly be well represented and also they would essentially appear suitably. An additional type is the tweeters. These are tiny audio speakers which are basically made use of to create the high notes. These audio speakers permit you to hear high notes in a fuller and also clearer tone, rather than listening to a pitchy vocal and tool; you would instead hear a clear high note as well as instrument riffs. Without installing tweeters, you could expect your sound audio speakers to be the one to take care of the blunt of it and afterwards have a hard time creating clearer audio. One kinder of audio speaker is the speaker, as exactly what the name suggests these audio speakers would be the ones to effectively show the reduced sound range.\nThe bass will appear wonderfully with the help these speakers and also the low baritone will be listened to appropriately. With the aid of several electronics shops online, you can in fact view many kinds of Best Component Speakers. Several various other car stereo components, with the help a bit of research study and also details, you can select which ones finest matches the needs of your car stereo. Prior to the presentation of stereophonic radio, dominant part of regular area of speakers can be found in the focal point of dashboard indicating aperture confronting the facade of windshields. Dominant part of present day applications, intensifiers are mounted to unequivocal customary areas together with front deck or dash, the back deck or package retire, the kick board or the entryways. Subwoofers are mounted more often than not underneath the storage compartment or the seat. Each position has distinct confinements and qualities both originating from the magnificence of sound and vehicle generation viewpoint.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Best Of The Worst\nBy Rudolph W. Zirm.\n“Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom ah zoom” pops into my head when I look at this cover, so I suppose it’s Rudolph W. Zirm.\nYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *\nNotify me of follow-up comments by email.\nNotify me of new posts by email.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "On the weekend of All Hallow’s Eve, brave ticketholders will join three witches as they cast a magic circle and perform a sacred ritual in the heart of Mead Gardens.\nThe Witches, is an audio drama where audiences don special headphones and make their way through Mead Botanical Garden, guided by immersive theatrical company, Phoenix Tears Productions (Website), which hosted sold-out showings at the recent Orlando International Fringe Theater Festival in Loch Haven Park.\nAudience members will choose a witch to follow and watch as the aforementioned ritual goes awry, with three unique tracks leading to two separate endings.\nTickets are $25 and available HERE for purchase. Discounts for artists and students are available.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "About this event\nThe artistic landscape is changing. Across the country, budgetary pressures and the demands of career-focussed choices mean that we may be facing a generation of young people who have never experienced art at school or anywhere else. Charities and funders are both looking at the best ways to help young people experience and enjoy arts and culture.\nWe’ve been working with arts charities, across a full range of artistic styles, to understand what works in engaging young people in the arts. Our analysis of the published literature, data, interviews with practitioners and our conversations with young people themselves have shed light on best practice and challenged conventional wisdom.\nAt this invite only event, we will discuss the findings of our research, hear young people’s stories and build connections with others that are working hard to engage young people in arts and culture.\nThis event is taking place at the National Theatre on 4 October between 1.45pm and 4.00pm.\n- Rizwan Iqbal, Manchester International Festival\nMore speakers to be announced closer to the event.\nTo learn more about NPC’s work on arts engagement, read our blogs Deciding where to draw the line: Defining arts and culture and What works in arts and culture outreach?\nIf you are interested in attending please email us at events@thinkNPC.org by 20 September.\nNPC is working on an in-depth review for the Mohn Westlake Foundation to find out how arts outreach can boost diversity and inclusion with the aim of establishing a base for effectiveness and creating a useful resource for all those working in this space.\nFrom libraries to theatre, dance classes to galleries and museums, the arts play a crucial role in our lives. But as government budgets tighten, arts organisations are increasingly looking to philanthropists for support. This paper explores the important role philanthropists have to play in ensuring the future of the arts, and outlines some considerations for anyone seeking to support an arts charity.\nWhat is art? It might seem academic but for charities trying to engage young people in culture, defining arts and culture matters.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Co-founder and creative director of BOON, a free quarterly magazine dedicated to promoting the output of creative talent in Brighton, which featured music, fashion, photography and culture. Stemming from our original manifesto, BOON grew in stature without losing its clarity or vision for Brighton.\nYou can view all 5 issues here: https://issuu.com/boonmagazine\n- Creative Director\n- Co-founders - Tim Hampson & James Halling", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Interviewee – Marcus Desando (ACT CEO)\nInterviewer – Unathi Nkyai (Host)\nPodcast link: https://iono.fm/e/935575\nIn this podcast, Marcus Desando (ACT CEO), talks all things Building Blocks 2020 on the Midday-Joy with Unati Nkayi on Kaya FM. In this interview he; highlights the shift in perspective for the revamped Building Blocks Programme, funded by the National Arts Council, the need for artists to sharpen their entrepreneurial and business acumen and the importance of the arts as an economic driver in South Africa.\n“Unathi speaks to Arts and Culture Trust (ACT) CEO, Marcus Desando about the call for applications for the ACT Building Blocks Programme 2020. The Building Blocks Programme has historically been one of ACT’s most impactful programmes in the arts and culture sector, empowering a large number of arts and culture practitioners across South Africa to bolster their professional and business acumen with an arts specific framework. In 2020 ACT proudly presents an updated curriculum that will speak to current challenges and tangible business solutions for sustainability in the arts and culture sector.” – Midday-Joy\nApplications for participation in the ACT Building Blocks Programme are open until the 31st of October 2020. Only 5 organisations/artists/companies per province will be selected. Find out more by visiting this link: https://act.org.za/programmes-act-building-blocks/\nThe Art & Culture Trust (ACT)\nOver 25 years of arts funding\nThe Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) is South Africa’s premier independent arts funding and development agency. The primary aim of ACT is to increase the amount of funding available for arts and culture initiatives, and to apply these funds to innovative, sustainable projects that make a meaningful contribution to society. Through structured funding programmes, ACT provides support for all expressions of arts and culture, including literature, music, visual art, theatre and dance, and the support extends to festivals, community arts initiatives, arts management, arts education and arts administration.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "|Position:||End, guard, quarterback|\n|Height:||5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)|\n|Weight:||167 lb (76 kg)|\n|Career highlights and awards\n|* Collyers Eye Mag.: 1st Team All-NFL ( 1924)|\nSamuel Marshall \"Mike\" Wilson was a professional football and professional baseball player. He played four seasons in the National Football League and the first American Football League between 1922 and 1926, and part of one Major League Baseball season in 1921.\nIn 1922 Wilson was an end with the NFL's Buffalo All-Americans however he finished the season with the Rochester Jeffersons. In 1923, he played for the Rock Island Independents. While Wilson took a break from football in 1925, he was a played once again in 1926 with the Independents, which were now playing in the AFL.\nWilson played five games as a catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1921, going hitless in four at bats. He continued to play in the minors until 1928 before retiring.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "So I’ve just installed Antergos with Gnome 3, and one of the first issues I noticed was that there was no sound. Even when setting the sound to max nothing would come out. No volume blips, no audio from YouTube videos, nothing. Oddly though, if I mute and unmute using Function+F7 (my laptop’s mute toggle) I can hear the unmute sound, and if anything else is making noise I can hear it too for the short duration of the unmute sound. (If this is confusing I can upload a video)\nThis was bizarre to me as I had the correct audio device selected, and it even gave me options to change it from 2.0 to 2.1 or 4.0 (although I have a 4.1 setup, but that comes later). I searched around and found this post (dude has the same laptop as me) and SHIFT+FN+F7 does indeed unmute and audio works fine… until I restart.\nWhile this is a minor inconvenience, I’d like to know if there’s any way to have the laptop be unmuted by default.\nMy second issue is that I don’t have the option to use my full 4.1 setup. I just get this. Is there any way to set up 4.1 audio?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "CRES is a\nunderstanding of all faiths\nteaching, writing, and consulting.\nHaving spawned several other organizations,\nFor interfaith and cultural calendars maintained by\nincluding the Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council,\ncontinue to offer programs initiated by and through others\nbut we no longer create our own in order to focus\non our unique work.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "> Babies named 1880-1899: 55,292\nAs the seventh most popular name in the late 19th century, Joseph hit its peak in 1898 with 3,171 boys being given the name, the sixth most popular boys’ name that year.\n> Babies named 1880-1899: 59,685\nNearing the top five most popular names, Frank finished 1888 with 3,459 boys given the name, the most of any year that decade.\n> Babies named 1880-1899: 83,504\nUnlike many of the most popular names from the 19th century, the name Charles had its peak at the beginning of the decade, with 5,348 boys given the name in 1880.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Monday, November 22, 2010\nHeidi Klum at The American Music Awards\nHeidi Klum looked gorgeous at the 2010 American Music Awards last night!\nThe dress is vintage from 30's. Part of Heidi's personal collection!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Say whaaaaa? A Sunday Funnies post? I thought she'd long ago forgotten she ever had this series!!! Nah, I will be back occasionally until I get my feet back under me, and then (hopefully) be back every week, since I know your life is totally empty without my Funnies.\nLittlest is in this mood lately (like, the past year) where Mommy is only allowed to sing if he wants me to. If he's in the mood, then I must sing immediately. If he's not in the mood and I start to sing, he will shout and even cry at me if I don't stop. It's very flattering. It almost forces me to play Rock Band to compensate for the blow to my ego.\nThe other day he was singing one of his favorite songs, and here comes Mommy to join in. I'm not singing for one second before he shouts, \"NO SING, MOMMY!!!\" Then, in his sweetest little voice, he finishes his song: \"Now I know my ABC's, next time won't you sing with me?\" Sheesh.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hi all, first time poster. I just bought my HP 207 a couple weeks ago a I was wondering if those of you who also have a HP 207 would like to share some of the equalizer and sound setting tweaks that you have made. I gathered from these forums 2 different eq configurations, both of which I have tried and am rather pleased with; however, I am looking for more configurations to try! The eq settings I gleaned from these forums are:\n1) A balanced, somewhat-mellow tone with good mid-range\n*(The original entry had 0,5 listed: I assumed this is what they meant!)\n2) Good mid range with a brighter sound than previous\nAlso, if you guys try these and come up with a better tone description, please post!\nOn another note, the 3-D option. I can't get it to sound decent on my unit, and the low 3-D settings (+1,+2) just don't sound right. What sound or eq settings do you guys prefer to accompany this feature?\nSorry for the long post, happy playing!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Mystery Incorporated: The Scooby-Doo Concept\nIn this Scooby-Doo DLC, each outfit comes with the unique background music, their own sounds and dialogue, a visit with Scooby-Doo at the campfire for both parties, with the van in the background, and unique chase music. And as a bonus, Shaggy says \"ZOINKS!!!\" in place of screaming in pain.\nFelix Richter as Fred Jones:\nKate Denson as Daphne Blake:\nClaudette Morel (or Feng Min) as Velma Dinkley:\nDwight Fairfield as Norville \"Shaggy\" Rogers:\nAnd as for the Villains...\nThe Doctor as \"The Spooky Space Kook\":\nThe Deathslinger as \"Captain Cutler\":\nThe Knight as... well... \"The Black Knight\": (There's also a version of him in the movie \"Scooby-Doo 2\".)\nThe Clown as... yeah you already know... \"The Ghost Clown\":\nGhostface as a Giggling Green Ghost:\nThe Hillbilly (or The Blight) as \"The Creeper\":\n\"The Phantom of Vasquez Castel\"\nor \"The Freak of Crystal Cove\"\nAnd the Trapper as \"Minor Forty-Niner\":\nCharms for Bother Parties:\nThe Mystery Machine\nand a Box of Scooby Snacks...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "J. Elijah Cho, a Los Angeles-based writer and actor who hails from Tampa, returns to the bay area to present a one-man show at Freefall Theatre in St. Petersburg. Cho will give five performances from Sept. 15-18 as part of Freefall’s Tandem series.\nIn his original comedy “Mr. Yunioshi,” Cho explores Mickey Rooney’s portrayal of Mr. Yunioshi in the film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” Rooney’s performance is regarded as one of the most egregious examples of yellowface in the movies. Cho explores the questions of whether actors should have the opportunity to play any role, what compels actors to take on roles they shouldn’t be playing and if there could have been a “right” way to perform it.\nThe show was awarded best solo show at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.\nCho played Wonderboy in two seasons of the AMC television series “Halt and Catch Fire.” He has a degree in theater performance from the University of South Florida and has performed in Tampa at Jobsite Theater, Stageworks Theatre and Tampa Repertory Theatre.\nIf you go\n“Mr. Yunioshi.” $20-$35. Sept. 15-18. Freefall Theatre, 6099 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. 727-498-5205. freefalltheatre.com.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Every minute or so she would kick up her feet up and rock them back and forth and place them back down?\nShe uses her forefinger and thumb to make an L on your hip. So that's it for the anal sex first time, masturbating against him all the time.\nHe has little use for loud, and we can only apologise for the delay in adding her. The trip was a surprise for my wife.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I believe it's football.\nI heard from someone that is was Lacrosse.\nLacrosse invented by the Native Americans\nNo One Direction song have ever been played in the US.\nThe first televised sport in the us is baseball\nNo, but it is the most played sport (or popular) in the world.\nThe second most popular sport would be baseball. Although it is second for most popular SEEN, it is first for the most PLAYED sport.\nPowerlifting was actually first played in two countries, which are the US and the UK. It originated in the 1950s during the Olympic weightlifting sport.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I'm currently an Anthropology major in New York. Archeology, linguistics, and cultural anthropology (particularly the Americas and Asia) interest me the most. I started playing Civilization 5 relatively recently. Then, I also started playing Civ4. I have played the Age of Empires series since elementary school. Age of Empires 3 disappointed me immensely due to featuring a fictional family.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Latest News More News\nThe National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) and the Piton International Film Festival (PIFF) have launched the PIFF...Read Post\nThe National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) Says it is shocked and saddened by the sudden death of Businessman, Philanthropist...Read Post\nThe National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) wishes to express its most sincere condolences to the Dongozi family, stakeholders...Read Post\nWhat is the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe\nNational Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) was created through an Act of Parliament in 1985 and it Champions the promotion and development of the arts sector by providing support, initiating arts programmes and forging partnerships with key stakeholders in the arts and culture sector.\nFoster, develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and practice of the arts in Zimbabwe by encouraging the teaching and practice of the arts and their presentation, performance, execution and exhibition to the public", "label": "No"}
{"text": "“If you cannot explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough” – Albert Einstein\nIn this post you will learn:\n- 2 study hacks that will make you a better learner.\n- what a Feynman blog is.\nSo, what’s a Feynman blog?\nA “Richard Feynman” study blog is a learning tool.\nIt is a blank notebook, that I will fill in little by little with chapters and sections from the books, Moocs and research papers I am studying. I will attempt to truly learn the content by explaining it in my posts.\nSo, who’s Feynman?\nRichard Feynman was a giant among physicists, an innovator in many aspects of his profession. You will see some links about the man at the end of this post.\nHe was an extraordinary teacher and science popularizer, capable of making arcane subjects such as Quantum Physics understandable to everyone.. His creativity in conveying ideas earned him the nickname ‘The Great Explainer’, no less.\nHe also possessed a non-subatomic level of swagger.\nIn his path to becoming an erudite in physics, Richard Feynman used the following study hacks. Given the man’s resume, I thought it was a good idea to give them a try.\nFeynman Study Hack #1\n1. Choose a concept you want to learn about. Read about it.\n2. Explain it to a another person. Try to use metaphors and analogies\n3. Evaluate the quality of your explanation. If you hesitated, relied on complicated vocabulary or your pupil didn’t understand it, it means YOU YOURSELF don’t understand the concept well enough. Back to the books.\n4. Simplify the concept, use analogies and metaphors.\n5. Back to trying to explain it!\nOnce you succeed at making a clear explanation, you will have organically validated your own learning, and gained a deeper understanding of the topic.\nFeynman Study Hack #2\n1. Choose a topic you want to learn about. Divide it into subtopics.\n2. Grab a notebook. On the title page write : “NOTEBOOK OF THINGS I DON’T KNOW ABOUT”\n3.Proceed to write the name of each subtopic at top of each page. Some topics you will know something about, some others will not.The challenge is to fill every single page of your notebook.\n4. The fact that you have a physical representation of ‘pages you have to fill’ will help increase your motivation to carry out the task. The idea is to tap into your human-embedded need for completion. We humans crave completion. It is one of those benign evolutionary bugs that have helped humanity survive. Most irresponsible cavemen who just left stuff undone probably succumbed to hungry, sable-toothed tigers entering through uncovered hut holes, thus sparing us from those lazy genes.\nOk, ok, you lost me there. What is a Feynman blog , again?\nA Feynman blog mixes both Feynman techniques. It is a digital notebook, full of blank pages, with the titles of the books/moocs and research I need to read and thoroughly understand.\nNot only do I have to write notes on the topics, but I have to explain them as clearly as possible. I rely on your comments to improve my explanations if you think they are not clear enough.\nYour feedback is crucial, for it will help me obtain the necessary knowledge to design world-class learning experiences.\nIt is almost empty now, but everyday, a new chapter of a book will be ready.\nA video on Richard Feynman explaining fire is here .\nCal Newports Blog Post on the Feynman Study Method #2 is here.\nBil Gates on Richard Feynman as a teacher is here", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Shallots are for babies;\nOnions are for men;\nGarlic is for heroes\nWhat to do on a rainy September day at Laraway? With our fields and garden doused with heavy rain, a handful of students from Laraway School convened in a small conference room with our Land Steward and AmeriCorp volunteer to trim and snip some of the 500 heads of garlic harvested from our garden. These tasty, aromatic bulbs are wending their way into our cafeteria and the kitchens of the families we serve, enhancing and fortifying meals.\nThe room smelled of garlic which wafted into the hallway----smelling a bit more like an Italian restaurant than a school. One expected a waiter to whoosh by with a steaming plate of garlicky pesto on pasta. Students chatted as they worked while carefully navigating the bulbs and stems with clippers.\nGarlic, it can be said, IS for heroes. Our youth, it can also be said, are heroes who---despite significant challenges in their daily lives---make it to school to learn, to grow and to occasionally snip and clip garlic.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Set in Malaya during the British protectorate, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Typhus centres on the improbable couple formed by the disgraced former doctor Georges, who has sunk to the lowest depths of a highly stratified colonial society, and Nellie, a down-at-heel nightclub singer, whose partner succumbs to the typhus epidemic sweeping the country. Though it does not shy away from the explosive issues of colonialism and race that are implicit in its setting, Typhus is both a turbulent love story in the best traditions of Western popular cinema and an existentialist tale of moral redemption that shares many fascinating parallels with Albert Camus’s novel The Plague.\nSartre penned the screenplay Typhus in 1943–44 as a commission for French filmmakers Pathé, who were planning a postwar production. However, the film was never made, though Yves Allégret’s 1953 film The Proud Ones retains some distant echoes of Sartre’s original script. The script was lost for nearly sixty years before being rediscovered and published in French in 2007. This first English publication is essential for fans of Sartre and twentieth-century French literature and postwar film.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "The National Aquarium today announced that it avoided the creation of nearly 4,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide during the summer months, thanks to the completion of a 4.3-megawatt (DC) solar generation project and energy efficiency improvements that are part of an innovative relationship with Constellation, a leading competitive retail energy supplier. These efforts provided the same benefit to the environment as removing 916 passenger vehicles from the road for a year, according to U.S. EPA data.\n“Thanks to our relationship with Constellation, we are on our way to significantly reducing the Aquarium’s carbon footprint,\" said Dale Schmidt, chief operations officer and senior vice president at the National Aquarium. “An added benefit is the significant cost savings that will allow us to dedicate more resources to our conservation and education programs.”\nCompleted in early May 2015, the 4.3-megawatt (DC) grid-connected solar generation project was funded and constructed by Constellation as part of a 25-year competitive electricity supply agreement designed to help the Aquarium better manage energy costs and encourage the development of renewable power in Maryland. The system, located in Cambridge, Md., and designed to meet 40 percent of the Aquarium’s annual electricity needs, generated over 1.8 million kilowatt hours of electricity in June, July and August, avoiding the creation of nearly 1,300 metric tons of carbon dioxide. Constellation owns and will operate the solar generation project for the entire term.\n“Constellation is pleased to continue to support the National Aquarium’s energy and environmental goals,” said Mark Huston, president of Constellation Retail. “Through a program designed specifically to meet its needs, we’ve helped the Aquarium save money, better manage its energy usage and demonstrate the importance of environmental stewardship to its many visitors. Together, we are on our way to creating a brighter, more sustainable future for the Chesapeake Bay region.”\nOneEnergy Renewables, a leading utility-scale renewable energy project developer, customized the development of the Cambridge Solar project and transaction to meet the Aquarium’s unique energy and financial profile, as well as its stringent conservation goals.\n“OneEnergy Renewables is proud to have developed the Cambridge Solar project with Constellation and on behalf of the National Aquarium, a legacy conservation institution,” said Bill Eddie, president of OneEnergy Renewables. “The project is a landmark in the evolution of renewable energy in the United States, bolstering grid resilience and reliability on the Eastern Shore, while providing a vehicle for an esteemed non-profit organization to benefit from utility-scale solar energy production and fixed-price electricity procurement.”\nThe solar power system, built by Columbia, Md. based groSolar, is comprised of approximately 14,500 photovoltaic panels.\n“We’re proud of the job our team did, working through extremely challenging winter conditions to construct a top notch project here in Maryland that will provide the Aquarium reliable, clean energy for many years to come,” said Jamie Resor, CEO of groSolar.\nThe Aquarium completed the implementation of $3.7 million in energy efficiency and water conservation measures including lighting upgrades and controls, chiller and boiler replacements, building envelope improvements, updated water fixtures and controls, and transformer replacements in early 2015 through a 15-year energy performance contract (EPC) with Constellation. The water conservation and energy efficiency improvements, which required no upfront capital from the National Aquarium, avoided the creation of 3,075 metric tons of carbon dioxide in June, July and August of this year, and resulted in energy cost savings of nearly $60,000 compared to 2014.\nConstellation is a leading competitive retail supplier of power, natural gas and energy products and services for homes and businesses across the continental United States. Constellation's family of retail businesses serves more than 2.5 million residential, public sector and business customers, including more than two-thirds of the Fortune 100. Baltimore-based Constellation is a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), the nation's leading competitive energy provider, with 2014 revenues of approximately $27.4 billion, and more than 32,000 megawatts of owned capacity comprising one of the nation's cleanest and lowest-cost power generation fleets. Learn more at www.constellation.com or on Twitter at @ConstellationEG.\nAbout OneEnergy Renewables\nOneEnergy Renewables develops utility-scale renewable energy projects across North America and is building a diverse, distributed solar project portfolio for commercial, institutional, government, and utility customers. OneEnergy delivers advanced energy procurement solutions and sophisticated clean energy market expertise to help its clients meet demanding financial and sustainability targets. For additional information, please visit OneEnergyRenewables.com.\ngroSolar is an industry-leading large commercial- and utility-scale solar development, engineering, procurement, and construction firm with more than 15 years of experience. Since inception, the company has built more than 2,000 solar projects for a wide variety of customers, including government, commercial, industrial and utility. groSolar has particular expertise in building projects on top of environmentally sensitive sites such as brownfields and landfills. In addition to solar development and construction services, groSolar also offers Operations and Management (O&M).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We all know that education for all is a fundamental human right – but what has it got to do with violence against women? Well, quite a lot actually. Education and training play a significant role in changing harmful and discriminatory gender stereotypes that promote or condone violence against women. In Bayside 67% of males have completed Year 12 (or equivalent) compared to only 63% of females.\nAn educated society is reflective of greater gender equality. Educated women are more likely to be able to attain greater levels of leadership both formally and in our communities. It not only makes economic sense, but educated women and girls also benefit entire societies through the improved health and education of their families. Gender stereotypes and attitudes can have a big impact on our community, including our children as the video below highlights.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Rehab is a place where addicts have a chance to get away from the destructive habits that they have developed to replace them with new, healthier habits. There are a myriad of different things that people learn in rehab because it is where they completely transform many aspects of their routine, their relationships with other people and their own mindset. Rehab provides patients with crucial skills that make their life less stressful and most importantly make it easier for them to remain sober.\nMaking the decision to attend rehab is never easy because most people know that it will mean going through tremendous changes. Addicts often have a tendency to do things their own way and disregard others’ advice because they are primarily motivated by their physical dependency. Rehab means learning to adapt to make different choices and stop living a self-centered existence which allows you to pursue substance abuse above all other things.\nPeople struggling with addiction often lose a lot of their life skills that kept them in control. They need to get back on track and re-learn or even discover important skills for the first time that keep them healthy. Understanding the strategies and steps to being physically and mentally stable is a big part of the process of recovery.\nRecovery and Sobriety Skills\nThere are a variety of different skills that people learn in rehab that make them feel more confident and capable of staying abstinent. One of the first and most important strategies that people learn is to develop a set of healthy coping mechanisms. Addicts often don’t know how to cope with the issues they face in life and drinking or using drugs has become their only method of coping.\nInstead of abusing substances, patients in recovery need to find more constructive and positive ways to cope with stress, pain, depression, anxiety or daily frustrations. These issues are bound to come up on a regular basis and healthy coping mechanisms can help maintain a person’s emotional stability. The coping strategies that are effective for an addict can be very personal and are something that takes a lot of time to develop.\nAddicts often struggle with taking care of themselves physically and emotionally and this is another skill they must learn in rehab. Self-care can mean a number of different things but in recovery it is helpful to master good habits such as a healthy diet, regular exercise, plenty of sleep, and maintaining a daily schedule. These skills help improve the patient’s daily life so that they feel better overall and are less vulnerable to triggers.\nOne of the most important things that people learn in rehab is how to interact with people socially and in intimate relationships. An addict often damages their relationships with family members, friends, and partners because of their behavior and lack of communication. Working on crucial communication skills can help in repairing some of the issues that led to distance and broken friendships.\nHow to Use What you Learn in Recovery\nEven though you might learn a lot of new information in rehab, applying the skills you acquire is the only way to stay permanently sober. Remembering and using all the things you learn in recovery can help you achieve the kind of success that you want out of a rehab program. Avoiding relapse should be your first concern and many of the things you learn in rehab are designed to help prevent relapse.\nYou can utilize coping mechanisms any time you experience a trigger that makes you feel driven to drink or use drugs again. Coping mechanisms like taking a walk, talking to a close friend, writing in a journal, meditating and other actions can help alleviate stress. Using these coping skills can minimize the impact of a trigger and prevent you from spiralling or backsliding into old patterns.\nPracticing self-care can help you take control of your life and not allow certain situations to make you feel overwhelmed. Self-care can mean having a better handle on your finances, working a regular job, staying healthy and avoiding situations that will lead to serious triggers. Maintaining your stability in life means balancing a number of different day to day realities so that you don’t lose control.\nCommunication and social skills should be used on a regular basis to make sure that you don’t become too isolated from friends and family. Being connected to others is one of the most important factors in maintaining sobriety and avoiding relapse. People need to feel that they are part of a supportive community that cares about their well-being so that they don’t slip into bad habits.\nRehab programs are created to teach patients how to cope with their lives and daily difficulties in more effective ways. Using these skills every day is the best approach to staying sober both during and after treatment.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "There are four main types of clouds. There’s Cirrus clouds, which are clouds made from ice crystals. Another type of cloud is Cumulus, which are white puffy clouds near the ground, and are signs of fair weather. There’s also Stratus clouds, which are spread accross the sky. The last type is a Cumulonimbus cloud, which is a thunderstorm cloud. There are more, but as I said, these are the main types.\nDNA Extraction From a Pomegranate\nThe microscopic world has always been a mystery far from our reach, but today, we’ve decided to change that once and for all. For yesrs, 6th graders consider that exploring large and vast places like outer space would increase their knowledge about our universe. The pourpouse of this experiment is to grab 6th graders’ attentions, and explain that important things may be little things, unseen by the naked eye. And you don’t need a space shuttle or astronaut suit to discover THAT, all you need is a pomegranate, some detergent, and a microscope.\nMy favorite thing about science is doing hands-on activities. I enjoy them because they are a much more creative way to learn science than simply reading out of a book. I thik hands-on activities give you a much better perspective of the world around you in a more visual way.\n20. The three types of rocks are Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic.\n19. Metamorphic rocks are formed from heat and pressure deep within the Earth.\n18. Sedimentary rocks are formed by the WEDCC process. (Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, Compaction, and Cementation)\n17. Igneous rocks are formed by the heating and cooling of lava and magma.\n16. The absolute (exact) age of a rock or fossil is measured by radioactive dating. (the more carbon 14 is in a rock, the older it is)\n15. The relative (estimated) age of a rock or fossil is measured by the law of superposition. (the layer at the bottom is the oldest and the one on the top is the youngest)\n14. An index fossil is a fossil of an orgainsm that lived in a short geologic span.\n13. Renwable resources are resources that can easily be replaced or renwed. Examples would be water, air, biomass, solar, trees, and geothermal energy.\n12. Nonrenwable resources are sesources that take a very log time to replace or renew. Examples would be nuclear, soil, oil, and coal energy.\n11. Conservation means to save our sesources. There are many ways to do this like taking 5 minute showers to save water.\n10. The inside of our Earth is divided into four main parts. The inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust.\n9. Athernosphere (upper mantle) and Lithosphere (upper crust) are also major layers of the Earth but sometmes people consider them as being part of the crust and mantle.\n8. Despite it’s heat, the inner core is solid because of all the pressure pushing down on it.\n7. Alfred Wegner discovered continental drift in 1914. Even though he had proof to back it up, (geologic, fossil, and climate evidence, and of course the Pangea theory) he couldn’t figure out what was causing it.\n6. Pangea is the super continent that was believed to exist millions of years ago when all the other continents were smushed together.\n5. Henry Hess discovered Sea Floor Spreading during WW2 while using sonars, rock samples, and magnetic stripping of the ocean floor.\n4. Weathering is the breaking down of rocks.\n3. Erosion is the carrying away of rocks.\n2. Deposition is the depositing of rocks.\n1. There are five major soil layers.\nBlogging Challenge #10\nFor my final blogging challenge this year I have voted for the best class blog award nominie. I hope my vote counts, and look forward to blogging with you next year!\nI have many favorite things like my favorite musician. (which by the way is Selena Gomez) My favorite type of music is pop and my favorite type of dance is hip-hop. That’s because I dance hip-hop to pop misic. Actually, I’ve even had hip-hop dance lessons a couple of years ago! To me this type of music and dance is very fun and exciting!\nMy favorite type of food is basicly anything that’s Itallian, and for that, I don’t really have a reoson. My favorite type of fruit is the rasberry because it tastes amazing and it has a unique shape. My favorite dessert is not so surprisingly, chocolate.\nMy favorite color is purple because all shades of it are exquisite and my favorite hobbie is art. My most favorite animal of all is an unicorn ( which by the way is a cross between a rhino and a horse) Yes. I am a believer. Some might say I have a very active imagination. Others simply call me wierd. However, I argue with that. I will tell those people, “I’m not wierd, I’m just gifted.” Gifted, is actually my favorite word. Oh, and for the record, I HAVE panited a picture of a purple unicorn with the word ‘Gifted’ written all over it.\nI hope you really enjoyed my “Favorites” blog. I hope you’ll read my future blog which will be Blogging Challange # 10! See you again then!\nI enjoy commenting on people’s posts because I believe it makes their writing better. Constructive critisism on my strenghts and weaknesses really helped me improve in many things. (blogging would be one of them) Therefore, it would help immensly by commenting on other posts.\nI mostly comment on my peers’ posts and blogs because it interests me to see what creative topics and ideas they come up with. I also feel proud to know that I helped my friends improve in their blogging. I also hope that I will continue to help them\nBlogging Challenge #7\nI went on a how to draw website and learned how to draw better rabbits, roses, and horses\nSeismic Waves Lab\nSeismic waves… By the time you’re reading this, you’ll probably be wondering: ” What in the world are seismic waves???” If you want a simple answer or statement, I’ll just go ahead and tell you. Seismic waves are the start of earthquakes. Because of them, scientists are able to tell how powerful an earthquake will be and what impact it will have with the help of the Ritcher Scale. But wait, I’m getting ahead of myself. Seismic waves do not only help us detect earthquakes, but they help us tell what the inside of the Earth looks like.\nHow? When an earthquake happens, seismic waves pass through the inside of the earth. There are two types of seismic waves. Those are P waves and S waves. P waves travel through both solids and liquids, but faster through solids. S waves travel only through liquids. Using special tools, scientists can tell which parts of the earth these waves pass through and determine what our earth is made of.\nSo… did I not only answer your question, but also go above and beyond explaining Seismic Waves? Because, if your answer is: NO, then I don’t mean to be rude but you need to read this story all over again!\nI have joined free rice to help donate 10 grains of rice to the needy for every question I answered correctlly. The quetions were all about vocabulary words. I have succesfully donated 400 grains of rice by completing questions.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "If you want a high position in the corporation then a simple bachelor’s degree won’t do it these days, you need to go through continuing education in order to make it big. People want to further their education in order to get ahead in the workplace and in their careers. When a person wants to advance in his own career or choose another one entirely, he should definitely take this kind of path. Getting an education is a struggle but having to go through it again would even be tougher. Read this article for the many reasons why people decide to continue their education.\nYou will not have any problems at advancing in any career you want when you have an education boost. You will be able to boost your career in the best possible way when you make use of these methods. People seek to have higher pay because that is something that will make their lives a lot easier. Furthering your knowledge in matters concerning your career will surely advance your pay grade in more ways than one. Advancing at one’s job is one of the ways to build a career and make a name for oneself.\nEmployers always seek individuals with higher education and more than one degree accredited to their field. Advancement in technology will require you to learn more about the certain field you are in. You will surely be able to get to greater heights when you graduate in a new field that would boost your career. You have to make sure that the kind of job you will eventually have based on the career you took is in demand.\nWhy People Think Classes Are A Good Idea\nYou would also be capable of starting a new career when you have a good education to take full advantage of. There is always an issue with people who are unemployed in this day and age and the usual reason is because they don’t educate themselves enough. You would be able to build a better career for yourself when you grab the opportunity given to you through continuing education. Make sure your career is something you are happy with by getting the right kind of education. Make sure your job is the best one for you because it’s going to be something you’ll be working with until you grow old.\nWhat Almost No One Knows About Options\nDeveloping skills in the industry you are working in is a sure fire way to get hired immediately. There are various colleges that would give you the kind of education you need for your career as well.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Aeroelasticity is a division of applied mechanics, which analyzes interaction of the aircraft as an elastic system (or elastic aerial vehicle) with atmosphere. Aeroelastic phenomena appear in many engineering areas, for example, structural engineering when studying the wind effect on the bridges and skyscrapers, or in marine application and power-plant engineering. Aeroelasticity analysis is especially important in aviation and rocket science.\nAerodynamic forces acting on the aircraft during the flight cause deformations of the elastic structure, which in turn lead to variation of aerodynamic forces.\nAll the phenomena considered within the scope of aeroelasticity are divided into static and dynamic. The phenomena that involve interaction of aerodynamic forces and elastic forces of the structure are classified as static. Divergence of the lifting surfaces (i.e. wing, fin), reverse of the aircraft controllers, effect of the structure elasticity on redistribution of aerodynamic pressure and on static aircraft stability are static phenomena considered within the scope of aeroelasticity. The phenomena, for which interaction of aerodynamic inertial forces with elastic forces becomes critical, are classified as dynamic. Flutter, stalling flutter, buffeting, transonic self-oscillations of the aircraft controllers, and response of the elastic structure on the aircraft dynamic stability are dynamic phenomena considered within the scope of aeroelasticity.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "By Edward Bradford Titchener\nI. Psychology: What it's and What it Does\nIII. easy snapshot and Feeling\nV. conception and Idea\nVII. reminiscence and Imagination\nVIII. intuition and Emotion\nXII. Self and Consciousness\nRead or Download A Beginner's Psychology PDF\nBest psychological research books\nThis ordinary textual content takes a learn-by-doing method of exploring study layout concerns in schooling and psychology, supplying evenhanded insurance of quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, and single-case designs. Readers research the fundamentals of alternative equipment and steps for severely studying any study's layout, facts, and conclusions, utilizing pattern peer-reviewed magazine articles as perform possibilities.\nReasoning study has lengthy been linked to paper and pencil projects during which peoples’ reasoning abilities are judged opposed to demonstrated normative conventions. despite the fact that, there was a contemporary revolution within the diversity of concepts, empirical equipment and paradigms used to ascertain reasoning behaviour.\n`If you're instructing postgraduate learn equipment classes, together with these aimed toward a mix of psychologists and different future health pros, this publication is worthy contemplating as a middle text'- John Hegarty, THESThis textbook bargains an outstanding creation to the diversity of analysis tools used in the fields of scientific and well-being psychology.\nComputational Social Psychology showcases a brand new method of social psychology that permits theorists and researchers to specify social mental methods when it comes to formal principles that may be carried out and proven utilizing the ability of excessive pace computing know-how and complex software program. This procedure permits formerly infeasible investigations of the multi-dimensional nature of human adventure because it unfolds based on varied temporal styles on diversified timescales.\n- Reuben's Fall: A Rhizomatic Analysis of Disobedience in Kindergarten (International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Series)\n- Applied Research in Child and Adolescent Development: A Practical Guide\n- A Companion to Latin Literature (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)\n- Handelt es sich beim Negativen Priming-Effekt um ein Gedächtnisphänomen? (German Edition)\n- A Cop Doc's Guide to Understanding Terrorism as Human Evil: Healing from Complex Trauma Syndromes for Military, Police, and Public Safety Officers and Their Families (Death, Value, and Meaning)\nExtra info for A Beginner's Psychology", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Think about a time that you may have been injured at work or someone you know has been injured at work. Do you think workers’ compensation goes far enough to address the unique needs of injured healthcare workers? Why, or why not?\nUnit 7 Reading\nMany healthcare facilities like hospitals are unionized and have collective bargaining units representing their employees. The National Labor Relations Act governs these collective bargaining units. This law requires that both employees and employers follow specific regulations and procedures to create and maintain union status. The law prevents either side from using unfair labor practices. The law applies to healthcare unions just like all other unions. Employees must pay dues to the union, and employers cannot discriminate against employees because of bargaining status.\nIn addition to prohibitions on union discrimination, employers may not discriminate upon the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, or national origin. This applies to all employers, including healthcare organizations. The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) also applies to all employers, but employees in the healthcare field face unique safety challenges that others do not. The OSH Act requires employers keep employees safe from workplace hazards. Employees have the right to be free from injury due to workplace hazards.\nHealthcare employees also have the same protections as all employees when it comes to leave time and job protections. The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) requires that eligible employees may take up to 12 weeks of approved leave without losing their jobs. Other workplace protections include workers’ compensation. Worker’s compensation allows employees to be paid a portion of their income after they are injured and cannot work.\nFor example, a nurse is conducting her patient rounds. She does not notice some type of substance on the floor and slips and falls. She falls directly on her side and injures her hip. Later, it is discovered that the substance was oil from when a maintenance man was repairing a copier at the nurses’ station and did not notice that he spilled a little machine oil in the hallway floor. The nurse is in pain and needs to recover. She is not able to work for some time. In this instance, the nurse would be covered under workers’ compensation and would receive a percentage of her paycheck while she was not able to work. Workers’ compensation was designed as a no-fault insurance provided by the employer. It means that the employee is guaranteed coverage, within some guidelines.\nEven though some hospitals are unionized, most employees of any organization are subject to at-will status. At-will means that an employee not under contract can be terminated for any reason or no reason at all provided it is not discriminatory. There are a few exceptions worth noting, including whistleblowing and public policy, but at-will employment provides little job protections for employees.\nWhistleblowers expose criminal or unethical behaviors in an organization. They are protected under state and federal whistleblower statutes.\nFor example, imagine that you are a billing clerk for a hospital. You are routinely performing your job and paying bills until you notice some of the bills you are paying for a specific physician look like they might be double billing for the same patients. The patients that appear to be double billed are only Medicare patients. You ask your supervisor about it, and he says that maybe it is a mistake and maybe it is not. He goes on to say that it does not really matter that much as Medicare is a guaranteed payer. The supervisor also says that it is a federal program and can afford it and that the hospital routinely rotates which doctor double bills their senior patients. However, he says, the hospital only does it for Medicare patients. This is, of course, unethical and also illegal. You do not feel comfortable knowingly participating in fraud. You go to your supervisor again to let him know you are going to go higher up if the situation is not corrected. He actually agrees with your conclusion, and he says he will take it to management.\nA couple weeks go by, and you are still getting these fraudulent bills. You go back to your supervisor, and he says they are working on a resolution. Fearing he is just telling you what you want to hear and that there will be no change in billing, the next day you report this billing fraud directly to the Medicare fraud division. This happens on a Friday. You return to work on Monday to realize your job has been eliminated, and you have been dismissed.\nIn this scenario, you may be able to bring a wrongful termination claim under your state or federal whistleblower laws. Some statutes even provide for a percentage of the penalties to be paid as a reward to the whistleblower.\nEmployers, like the one in the above situation, are prohibited by law from retaliating against an employee who acts as a whistleblower for an illegal or unethical organization. This protection supersedes any at-will status.\nAll employers are required to provide safe work environments. They are required to protect employees’ privacy and confidentiality. Employees, specifically in health care, are, in return, expected to provide quality patient care, maintain patient privacy and confidentiality, and always maintain professional standards.\nProfessional standards can vary depending upon the employee’s position with the organization. Typically, this includes maintaining any professional certifications and licensing. Certain employees may be required to carry additional professional liability insurance as a condition of employment.\nProfessional liability insurance generally protects against malpractice and negligence claims. This coverage may be above and beyond any coverage provided by the employer. Most of these policies have exceptions for intentional or criminal acts.\nFor example, Amy is a nurse for a city hospital. One day she is served with legal papers indicating that she is named in a malpractice lawsuit that has been brought against a doctor for whom she previously worked. She is very surprised and, of course, upset by the lawsuit. She has her own professional liability policy, and she contacts her insurance company that immediately assigns a case manager and an attorney for her representation. After a lot of back and forth, it is discovered that Amy was not present at the hospital the day that the patient is claiming the negligence occurred. Amy’s individual professional liability insurance policy covered her expenses, and she is completely dismissed from the claim. This added level of protection and security is why many professionals maintain their own liability policy separate from any group employer coverage.\nHowever, if Amy had been charged with sexual harassment or sexual assault, Amy’s individual professional liability policy would not have covered her. Her employer’s group policy also would not cover her. It would still cover the hospital in order to defend itself against employee or patient legal actions, but Amy would be on her own for any criminal claims against her.\nHealthcare employers and employees have rights, responsibilities, and obligations to each other. All these rights and obligations are created to work together to maximize the safety and privacy of employees and patients in the healthcare system.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Issue No.06 - November/December (1998 vol.18)\nDOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/40.743686\nLarge RAM caches are generally used to speed up disk accesses. Such caches more effectively improve read performance than write performance, since write requests must be frequently written into disks to protect them from data loss or damage due to system failures. While Non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) caches can be used to improve write performance, large NVRAM caches are too expensive for many applications. This paper presents a new disk cache architecture called DCD, Disk Caching Disks. DCD takes the advantage of large data transfer sizes and uses inexpensive disk space to provide a high-performance, low-cost and reliable caching solution.\nCache, Disk, NVRAM, Storage System, Storage Hierarchy\nYiming Hu, Qing Yang, \"A New Hierarchical Disk Architecture\", IEEE Micro, vol.18, no. 6, pp. 64-76, November/December 1998, doi:10.1109/40.743686", "label": "No"}
{"text": "29 July 2017, Nepal- Narapani village. Laxmi Sunar.\n?n the past five years, climate change has affected us,\" Laxmi says. ?ain is uncertain. Crops have been damaged by fog and hail stones. We have little yields and we are suffering from lack of food. We only eat half of what we used to eat.\"\nTo make their lives better, Laxmi's husband migrated four years.\nWith her husband abroad, Laxmi is responsible for their farm, livestock and young daughter.\n? went through a tough time before and after the bay came. I suffered because of lack of food and proper care. Had my husband been at home, somehow he would have managed to have enough food for me.\"\nLaxmi's husband took out a loan before leaving and most of the money he sends goes towards paying that debt. Four years later, their lives have not improved. It's still full of hardships, but now it's the added sorrow of Laxmi and her daughter missing their husband and father.\nLaxmi is one of the 3,000 farmers being supported by FAO to better cope with the impacts of climate change and increase their food productions. She is learning climate-smart methods to cultivate crops and care for livestock. Under the project, she learns how to test different varieties of crops and uses different methods to determine the best crops to grow on their land. They are also learning how and when to feed their animals differently. ? am gaining more confidence through this project,\" she says.\n? wish to make my daughter a more capable person so that she doesn't have to go abroad,\" she adds. Nepal is one of the countries hardest hit by the impacts of climate change. Farmers are the worst affected. Poverty and impacts of climate change are pushing people to migrate. As part of the FAO-supported project - Reducing vulnerability and increasing adaptive capacity to respond to impacts of climate change and variability for sustainable livelihoods in agriculture sector (2015-2019) - some 3,000 farmers learn to grow crops that are better adapted to the impacts of climate change, and practice climate-smart and sustainable agriculture. Farmers test different varieties of crops and use different techniques to determine the best crops to grow for their land. They learn by doing. They also get support to raise animals by learning what and when to feed their animals. The project is made possible thanks to the support of the Global Environment Facility.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How Modern Scenario Planning Developed\nThe story of modern scenario planning has been told many times but here is a brief sketch of its history. An account from 1999, when the use of scenarios had been evolving for almost 30 years in corporations, and had also been adopted by government and international organisations, has the following introduction:\n“While all companies learn, the crucial element is to be able to learn fast enough to sustain a competitive advantage. This is becoming increasingly important in today’s fast-changing world. Unfortunately, teaching is a very ineffective way to communicate information. Sometimes changing or suspending corporate rules can accelerate learning. A very effective learning tool, which can be described as a form of game playing, is developing ‘what if’ scenarios and planning responses to them.”1\nInternational organisations, government institutions and multiple other associations don’t have commercial competitors but it is still advantageous for the communities they serve to be able to act in an informed fashion. It will assist the music sector project to have a well-defined idea based on extensive preparation to identify issues. Our answer is scenario planning.\nA workbook by Michigan State University professor Richard Bawden2 provides another useful reference by an Australian-born academic who is still actively developing these ideas in the United States.\nThe United States military first used scenarios after World War II for strategic planning — think-tanks such as the RAND Corporation used scenario-type thinking and simulated war games of military strategy for decades.\nIn business, Royal Dutch Shell’s experience began in 1971 with what was to become the first widely documented and recognised success story of modern scenarios. Pierre Wack, recognised as one of the great teachers of scenario planning, introduced Shell to scenarios. The price of oil rapidly became the main item on the agenda. Wack convinced Shell’s management that hiring more forecasters to extrapolate existing realities in a straight line had become pointless, indeed extremely risky in the new world of societal, geopolitical and economic discontinuities that emerged in many different areas from the late 1960s. The only way to stability, Wack argued, was to accept uncertainty, and organisations would have to be systematically open to heresy.\nAccording to a later chief planner at Shell, Kees van der Heijden, two goals were defined. One was to create ‘a critical mass of intent’ concerning possible upheavals in an industry, and develop scenarios to provide a way of experiencing upheavals before they actually occur — thus preparing managers to react quickly if and when real events arise. The second goal was to spur extensive debate to prepare a context for future planning.3\nShell gained a famous advantage when envisaging in one of its first scenarios that the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries in the Middle East would take radical action and proclaim an oil embargo — which as everyone knows actually happened in 1973. This action by the OPEC cartel caused a strong rise in oil prices and a decline in demand for oil after steady annual growth of 6-7% since the 1940s. Shell acted as promptly as possible on the implications of its scenario story to cut its planned volume of production, but the other oil refiners apparently needed two years to discover that anything had happened and then required another five or six years to work out the real impact of the oil crisis. So the world oil market became badly oversupplied through the rest of the 1970s.4\nMoya Mason notes, remarkably in view of the current Music Trust project:\n“The scenario process involves great amounts of research, both broad searches that facilitates educating the planner, and narrow focuses needed for a specific scenario. Each scenario requires specific research, although there are some constant subjects that need to be studied at all times such as science and technology, and music (italics added). Peter Schwartz [another former chief planner at Shell who is also mentioned in Global Risk Factors and Music in Australia] says that music is a window onto the freedom in the future. (So pay attention to the music!)”\nIt is even more remarkable that not one of the scenarios we discuss in Global Risk Factors and Music in Australia pays any attention to the arts, let alone music — whether as an inspiration for scenario planning or as a subject for such planning.\nThe History Parallel\nHistorians have debated for at least two centuries whether their role is to describe events as if there were no underlying causes or effects — as if history was divinely ordered, or governed by ‘reason’ as the Age of Reason in the late 18th and early 19thcenturies would have it, the class struggle (Karl Marx), or any other deterministic ‘law’. Logically, deterministic historical models do not allow ‘what if’ or imagined (‘counterfactual’) alternatives to be offered.\nIn a 90-page essay prefacing nine ‘what if’ cases ranging across ‘What if there had been no American revolution?’, ‘Germany had invaded Britain in 1940’, and ‘John F. Kennedy had not been assassinated’, British historian Niall Ferguson5 concludes based on chaos theory that it is legitimate to pose counterfactual historical alternatives if these are plausible so that mere chance is replaced by probabilities.6 “The counterfactual scenarios we therefore need to construct are not mere fantasy: they are simulations based on calculations about the relative probability of plausible outcomes in a chaotic world (hence ‘virtual history’).” (p 85)\n“Under these circumstances, the search for universal laws of history is futile. The most historians can do is to make tentative statements about causation with reference to plausible counterfactuals, constructed on the base of judgements about probability.” (p 89)\n“At any given moment in history there are real alternatives. … How can we ‘explain what happened and why’ if we only look at what happened and never consider the alternatives … It is only if we place ourselves before the alternatives of the past …, only if we live for a moment, as the men of the time lived, in its still fluid context and among its still unresolved problems, if we see those problems coming upon us, … that we can draw useful lessons from history.” British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper7)\nWhat If Britain had Stood Aside in 1914?\nI am writing this article in the centenary year of the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 — in fact only a few days before the 100th anniversary of the final departure on 1 November 1914 from Albany, Western Australia of the first Anzacs who fought at Gallipoli from 25 April 1915. World War I will be on the centenary radar for the next four years. It is an appropriate example to choose as one of the bloodiest and most influential events in the 20th century, quite apart from offering a good illustration of virtual history.8\nThe author Hector Hugh Munro (who used the pen name Saki) in 1913 told how the protagonist of one of his stories returned from ‘darkest Asia’ to find a vanquished Britain ‘incorporated into the Hohenzollern Empire … as a Reichsland, a sort of Alsace-Lorraine washed by the North Sea instead of the Rhine’, with Berlin-style cafés in ‘Regentstrasse’ and on-the-spot fines for walking on the grass in Hyde Park. (p 229)\nThe historian Basil Liddell Hart argued in 1942, during the thick of World War II, that Germany could have been defeated in World War I without embroiling Britain in the prolonged continental campaign if the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) had been sent to Belgium in 1914 rather than France, or if more troops had been made available for the Dardanelles invasion in 1915.9 J. M. Hobson has offered the view that a bigger continental commitment before 1914 could have deterred the Germans from attacking France in the first place.10\nNiall Ferguson argues that there “remains a third possibility, which has been all but ignored by historians: that of British non-intervention.” Prime Minister H. H. Asquith and Foreign Secretary Edward Grey, both in office until 1916, emphasised that Britain had not been obliged to intervene by any kind of contractual obligation. (p 236)\nFerguson asks: Was war between Britain and Germany inevitable in 1914? British politicians including David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill saw a ‘dangerous disease’ at work and used the metaphor of a typhoon beyond the control of the statesmen. Of more importance, however, was the argument that Britain “could not, for its own safety and independence, allow France to be crushed as a result of aggressive action by Germany.”11\nBetween the closing years of the 19th century and 1914, there was a widely held view that the German Reich intended to make some kind of challenge to British power, so British historians should not ridicule Saki for being a scaremonger and propagandist for the conscription campaign.\nDespite this, Niall Ferguson was uneasy about the notion of a preordained war between Britain and Germany, if only because at the time Virtual History was written “eighty years on, the cost of war looms so much larger than its benefits.” If all the sacrifices of the ‘Great War’ were supposed to prevent German hegemony in Europe, this achievement was short-lived. Only twenty years after the war, a far more serious German threat to Britain, and indeed the world, emerged. “It is therefore tempting to ask whether the four years of slaughter in the trenches were indeed as futile as they seemed to the poet Wilfred Owen and others.” (pp 234-235)\nThe neglect of the ‘counterfactual’ case for neutrality reflects the persuasiveness of postwar apologies from Asquith, Grey and other leaders who admitted that Britain had actually had a choice to stay out but had chosen to enter the war not to be discredited for having played an inglorious part. “While it seems undeniable that a continental war between Austria, Germany, Russia and France was bound to break out in 1914, there was in truth nothing inevitable about the British decision to enter that war. Only by attempting to understand what would have happened had Britain stood aside can we be sure the right decision was made.” (p 237)\nAnglo-German cooperation was actually quite widespread around the turn of the 20th century. There were numerous overseas areas where German and British interests potentially coincided. In 1898 and 1900 Joseph Chamberlain argued for such cooperation against Russia in China. There was serious though inconclusive discussion of an Anglo-German-Japanese “triplice” in 1901, and other examples of cooperation between Britain and Germany. Ferguson says, “It is simply untrue to say that the fundamental priorities of policy of each country were mutually exclusive.” (p 239)\nThe approaches between Germany and Britain did, however, wane in the years that followed, mainly because Britain came to see Germany as less of a threat because of its own superior naval power. The German chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg proposed a deal to accept British naval supremacy in return for continental neutrality, but it was rejected by Grey because Britain could have the former without giving way on the latter. (p 252)\nThe crucial issue in the counterfactual history was Germany’s war aims in 1914. It was alleged after the war that these aims were the annexation of French, Belgian and possibly Russian territory, but Churchill had already demonstrated the weakness of Germany’s position before the war. Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg’s view then was that war would strengthen the political left and weaken the Reich internally. “No war in Europe can bring us much,” he said. (p 259)\nIn Niall Ferguson’s counterfactual history, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) that actually started the British commitment was not sent into Europe, and four years of confrontation and devastation for Britain, its allies and foes were averted because the European war finished years earlier, without Britain being involved.\nThe dispatch of the BEF in 1914, then, was not a foregone conclusion. The counterfactual history is a war without the BEF. “If the BEF had never been sent, there is no question that the Germans would have won the war.” (p 276)\nWhat then? The Germans would have overwhelmed the French defence quickly, and any British intervention that could be imagined would have been very different. The BEF “would have been rendered obsolete by the French defeat; had it been sent, a Dunkirk-type evacuation would probably have been necessary.” (p 277)\nNiall Ferguson sums up his counterfactual history (pp 278-279):\n“A fresh assessment of Germany’s pre-war war aims reveals that, had Britain stood aside — even for a matter of weeks — continental Europe would have been transformed into something not unlike the European Union we know today — but without the massive contraction in British overseas power entailed by the fighting of two world wars. Perhaps too the complete collapse of Russia into the horrors of civil war and Bolshevism might have been averted: though there would still have been formidable problems of rural and urban unrest, a properly constitutional monarchy (following Nicholas II’s abdication) or a parliamentary republic would have stood more chance of success after a shorter war. And there certainly would not have been that great incursion of American financial and military power into European affairs which effectively marked the end of British financial predominance in the world. True, there might still have been fascism in Europe in the 1920s; but it would have been in France rather than Germany that radical nationalists would have sounded most persuasive. It may even be that, in the absence of a world war’s stresses and strains, the inflations and deflations of the early 1920s and early 1930s would have not been so severe. With the Kaiser triumphant, Hitler could have lived out his life as a failed artist and a fulfilled soldier in a German-dominated Central Europe about which he could have found little to complain.”\n“By fighting Germany in 1914, Asquith, Grey and their colleagues helped ensure that, when Germany did finally achieve predominance on the continent, Britain was no longer strong enough to provide a check to it.” (p 280)\nAn Afterword on Counterfactual History\nI remember from my student days in the 1950s reading textbooks by the ‘American Keynes’, Harvard Economics Professor Alvin Hansen (1887-1975), including his 1941 book Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles. He assumed as a matter of course what appeared to be a widely held view that the United States would stay out of World War II. The raid on Pearl Harbor happened at the end of 1941, a few months after the book was published, and prompted America to declare war the following day. Why did Japan attack, and was its action inevitable? Would it have done so if it had expected correctly that American domestic support for non-interventionism, which had been strong, would disappear virtually overnight? Now there is stuff for another counterfactual history, as dramatic as the ‘what if’ story about Britain staying out of the European war in 1914!\nNot all the counterfactual history examples in Virtual History were seen to change the world as much as Ferguson’s World War I scenario, or the likely consequences if America had not been provoked to enter World War II. American historian Diane Kunz in her ‘Camelot Continued: What if John F. Kennedy had lived?’12 argues that by the time Kennedy would have stood down after his two terms and Nixon gaining office in 1968, his presidency would have been less than shining. There would have been no early withdrawal from Vietnam and no ‘great society’, as under Lyndon Johnson’s actual presidency. Kennedy’s personal inclination according to this story was to be a foreign policy president: his lack of success in realising a domestic agenda made it indispensable for him to succeed internationally. Kunz concludes (p 391): “The former Communist world has lost its idols. It is now time for Americans to relinquish one of theirs.”\nAs all good virtual histories and all good scenarios, this is plausible. Plausibility is everything for both subjects — without plausibility, no credibility. But in virtual history and scenarios for the future, other possible versions could be written. Kennedy might have developed, or been influenced by external events to develop, concerns similar to those that drove Johnson. Bill Clinton turned the tide to favour his own administration in his second term (with possible longer-term consequences for his wife Hillary’s presidential ambitions). Barack Obama may still have time to do likewise, though the political tide keeps running against his administration as I write.\nChaos Theory and the Natural and Social Sciences\nNiall Ferguson, in Virtual History, argues that the new science of chaos theory marks the end of scientific determinism.\n“A great many … philosophers of history who have argued in this [20th] century about whether history was a ‘science’ seem not to have grasped that their notion of science was an out-of-date relic of the nineteenth century. What is more, if they had paid closer attention to what their scientific colleagues were actually doing, they would have been surprised — perhaps even pleased — to find that they were asking the wrong question.” (p 72)\nIndeed, Niall Ferguson finds that many modern developments in the natural sciences have been fundamentally historical in character in that they have been concerned with changes over time. Chaos theory demonstrates that the natural world is unpredictable enough to make the task of accurate prediction virtually impossible. The same applies to the social sciences: ”For economists, chaos theory helps to explain why predictions and forecasts based on the linear equations which are the basis for most economic models are so often wrong.” (p 78) Ferguson refers to an article by John Kay, ‘Cracks in the Crystal Ball’, first appearing in the Financial Times, 29 September 1995. It starts as follows:\n”It is a conventional joke that economic forecasters always disagree, and that there are as many different opinions about the future of the economy as there are economists. The truth is quite the opposite. Economic forecasters do not speak with discordant voices; they all say more or less the same thing at the same time. And what they say is almost always wrong. The differences between forecasts are trivial relative to the differences between all forecasts and what happens.”\nTwo comments follow on John Kay’s article, and one linking forecasting to scenario planning:\n- Writing in the 1990s which were generally growth years, he also found that the consensus forecasts fell short of the actual outcome. I could place a reasonable bet (not further explored) that current consensus forecasts, six or seven years after the Global Financial Crisis, tend to be optimistic, unless economists as a group have been gripped by a feeling that the economy has entered a fundamental new phase, which I doubt.\n- I spent the 1960s as an economic forecaster, covering mainly short-term forecasts of the Australian economy and its building and motor vehicle sectors, 12 to 18 months ahead. In retrospect, the decade was exceptional for its stability and predictability, so my forecasts were reasonably accurate. But that didn’t last. Social upheavals piled up in the late 1960s, followed by events starting with the 1973 oil crisis. By that time I had (fortunately) left formal statistical forecasting behind to develop other professional skills.\n- Even today, formal Australian scenarios have been misused to produce forecasts of particular indicators such as employment of music professionals relative to gardeners and greenkeepers and other “arts and recreation occupations”. See Global Risk Factors and Music in Australia, commenting on the 2012 scenarios by the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency (AWPA). It might make sense to produce such derived forecasts to fit alternative scenarios dealing with an interconnected entity like the music sector (and maybe even the arts as a whole), but it is difficult to see the connection between the employment of musicians and other largely unrelated “arts and recreation” occupations.\nHow Chaos is Changing Perceptions\nModern chaos theory started to emerge in the early 1960s, as a wide range of different sciences ran into unexpected and puzzling snags: sciences including astronomy, biology, chemistry, climate, ecology, economics, health, physics — not to mention the mathematics which underlies the theory. Weather forecasting was the first area that was found to defy “the Newtonian promise that the world unfolded along a deterministic path, rule-bound like the planets, predictable like eclipses and tides.”13 The stumbling block was nonlinearity — while linear systems are mathematically solvable, that is not the case when more complex behaviour enter the system. Linear systems can be captured with a straight line on a graph, nonlinear systems cannot. Here is a simple example:\n”Without friction, a simple linear equation expresses the amount of energy you need to accelerate a hockey puck [disc]. With friction the relationship gets complicated, because the amount of energy changes depending on how fast the puck is already moving. Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules. You cannot assign a constant importance to friction, because its importance depends on speed. Speed, in turn, depends on friction. That twisted changeability makes nonlinearity hard to calculate, but it also creates rich kinds of behaviour that never occur in linear systems.” (Gleick 2008, p 35)\nA whole new terminology has been introduced to deal with the impact of nonlinearity, including “fractal geometry”, “strange attractors”, “self-similarity”, “bifurcations”, “intermittencies” and “periodicities” — not to mention “smooth noodle maps”.14 The central concept binding them together is fractals, which Wikipedia defines as a natural phenomenon or a mathematical set that exhibits a repeating pattern that displays at every scale — arguably chaos’s most striking feature.15\nScientists gradually came to realise that the textbooks were wrong in showing only solvable, linear systems, or relatively rare nonlinear systems which could be subjected to linear approximations or some other uncertain backdoor approach. “Nonlinear systems with real chaos were rarely taught and rarely learned. When people stumbled across such things — and people did — all their training argued for dismissing them as aberrations. Only a few were able to remember that the solvable, orderly, linear systems were the aberrations. Only a few, that is, understood how nonlinear nature is in its soul. [Italian Nobel Prize winning physicist] Enrico Fermi once exclaimed, “It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!”16\nAs a result, a new generation of scientists has come along, armed with a more robust set of assumptions about how nature works. They know that a complex dynamical system can get freaky — causing one mathematician described as ‘revelling in chaos’ to remark: “The freaky stuff is turning out to be the mathematics of the natural world.” (p 395)\nDifferent aspects of chaos have been taken up by modern management theorists on one hand, and postmodern literacy theorists on the other. (p 395) Chaos is getting closer to becoming universally used and accepted.\nThe so-called butterfly effect in chaos theory has become almost a pop cliché: the image of a butterfly flapping its wings in, say, Beijing, causing a tornado in, say, Texas a week later — sensitive dependence on small differences in initial conditions to quote Wikipedia. The butterfly effect conjures up an image of predictability giving way to pure randomness, but the ‘chaos pioneers’ saw more than randomness embedded in their models. They saw, to quote one of them (the research meteorologist and mathematician Edward Lorenz credited with being first to recognise chaos in 1961 and the father of the illustration to the right), a fine geometrical structure, ‘an order masquerading as randomness’. (p 32)\nThe butterfly effect has its place in folklore:\nFor want of a nail, the shoe was lost;\nFor want of a shoe, the horse was lost;\nFor want of a horse, the rider was lost;\nFor want of a rider, the battle was lost;\nFor want of a battle, the kingdom was lost.\nAnd all for the want of a horseshoe nail.17\nIn conclusion, chaos theory is here to stay. “In the heady early days, researchers described chaos as the century’s third revolution in the physical sciences, after relativity and quantum mechanics. What has become clear now is that chaos is inextricable from relativity and quantum mechanics. There is only one physics.” (p 399).\nIt is tempting to add that so many other sciences have become involved that the influence of chaos and nonlinearity goes way beyond physics, not only into other sciences as Gleick’s book demonstrates but — at least potentially — into the way we look at culture and the arts and other vital parts of modern society as well.\nChaos, History and Scenarios\nReversing the sequence of the narrative, chaos is intimately linked to nonlinearity, which implies non-predictability. All or most sciences and many commercial activities have benefited from the insights that chaos theory has supplied over the past 50 years. What about music and the other arts? There seems to be no way to put these into a mechanistic straitjacket. They are inherently nonlinear by their very nature.\nMy discovery of virtual or counterfactual history came from browsing a bookshop in Santa Monica, California, in August 2014. I was aware of chaos from the paper version of James Gleick’s book from 1987. One of the books I bought was Virtual History with Niall Ferguson’s essay demonstrating that it was legitimate to speculate what if such and such hadn’t happened, as in the World War I and Kennedy examples quoted from the book. Ferguson dismissed the tradition that history should be treated as if it was determined, precluding any ‘what if?’ question. His justification was based on chaos theory: “Chaos … means unpredictable outcomes even when successive events are causally linked.” (p 79) His only general condition was that the counterfactual histories should be plausible.\nTurning to scenarios versus history, the common factor is again that the stories must be plausible. In Virtual History, past events are remodelled to come up with a counterfactual past history (only one alternative is offered though there seems no logical reason why more could not be included, as in scenario planning). In contrast to virtual history, which sets one alternative course from a past set of circumstances, scenarios take their origin in the present and compare three or four plausible and equally likely futures. Defining these futures provides a basis for planning to avoid the worst ones to achieve the better ones, given the societal, technological, ecological, economic and political realities postulated in each of the scenarios.\nNew or refreshed insights like these, and the combination of chaos, history and scenario theory in promoting these insights, should serve to make the Music Trust scenario-planning project even more suitable in creating plausible and realistic futures for the Australian music sector, across the spectrum from favourable to less so. Of course, the draft scenarios (as in all scenario planning) will still need feedback from members of the sector but they would be drafted at a more advanced level than if the research summarised in this article hadn’t been done.\nArticles in This Series\n- Putting Numbers on Our Cultural Assets: Not Yet Possible (27.3.2014)\n- How to Explore the Cultural Future (7.4.2014)\n- Cultural and Creative Activity in Australia (15.4.2014)\n- Global Risk Factors and Music in Australia (17.10.2014)\n- Scenarios, Virtual History, and Chaos (20.10.2014)\n- Ideas from Other Global Scenarios (8.12.2014)\n- Four Global Scenarios Set the Stage (18.12.2014)\n- Music Sector Structure for Scenarios (28.2.2015)\n- Valuing the Invaluable (5.3.2015)\n- Some Big Possible Positives – Or? (20.6.2015)\n- A First Set of Music Sector Scenarios (23.6.2015)\n- Global Leadership Challenges: A Missing Link in the Scenario Planning (31.10.2015)\n- Present and Future Changes and Their Role in the Scenarios (20.12.2015)\n- Complex Adaptive Systems and Music (9.1.2016)\nHans Hoegh-Guldberg. Entered on Knowledge Base 20 October 2014.\n- Moya K. Mason, Scenarios, The Art of Storytelling, 1999.↩︎\n- Richard Bawden, Learning from the Future: Of Systems, Scenarios and Strategies, Michigan State University, written in about 2001. Before his appointment as a Visiting Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University in 1999, Richard Bawden AM was a professor at the University of Western Sydney. He is also a foundation director of Global Business Network Australia. GBN remains the best-known international scenario-planning firm↩︎\n- Moya Mason, 1999.↩︎\n- Kees van der Heijden, Scenarios, the Art of Strategic Conversation, John Wiley & Sons 1996, p 3.↩︎\n- Niall Ferguson (ed.), ‘Towards a “chaotic” theory of the past’, Virtual History, Basic Books, New York 1999, 1-90. Original edition published by Picador, London 1997. The page references following are from the American edition.↩︎\n- Chaos theory is discussed in the final sections and is an essential part of how the issues gained relevance for history and scenario research.↩︎\n- History and Imagination: Essays in Honour of H.R. Trevor-Roper edited by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Valerie Pearl and Blair Worden, Duckworth, 1981, pp 363 ff.↩︎\n- Niall Ferguson, ‘The Kaiser’s European Union: What if Britain had stood aside in August 1914?’, Chapter 4 of Virtual History, pp 228-280.↩︎\n- B. H. Liddell Hart, The British Way in Warfare, London 1942.↩︎\n- Journal of European Economic History 1993, pp 461-507.↩︎\n- Winston Churchill, The World Crisis, 1911-1918, London 1922.↩︎\n- Virtual History, pp 368-391.↩︎\n- James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science, Iconic EBooks 2011, p 22 (downloaded from iBooks). I recommend this authoritative, up-to-date and clear account of chaos theory, which was concluded in 2008 as an update of the original book version, published in 1987. It gives a fascinating 480-page picture of the scientific ‘heroes’ who encountered and tackled seemingly intractable issues. — The page references refer to the portrait-format presentation in the digital version (it can also be read in landscape format on a tablet computer such as iPad).↩︎\n- The term refers to the surface pattern of a human brain but all the references are to an album released in 1990 under the same name by American new wave band Devo which contains the line “snake through the chaos with a smooth noodle map“.↩︎\n- The realisation that chaos theory is important for scenario planning is not new but its central role took years to emerge. Kees van der Heijden wrote in 1996 (pp 34-35): “Lately chaos theory has impressed on the world the view that many phenomena taking place in nature are unpredictable not just because we lack the analytical knowledge and capacity, but are unpredictable in principle. This is related to complexity and non-linear characteristics of systems, which can be shown to result in behaviour which is intrinsically unknowable in its detail. Terms such as “the butterfly effect” (a flutter of the butterfly’s wings here causing a storm on another continent next week) are stock in trade.”↩︎\n- Gleick 2008, p 86. Fermi made his remark long before chaos theory emerged — he died aged only 53 in 1954.↩︎\n- Gleick 2008, p 34. The rhyme is said to refer to the death of Richard III of England at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, but the Wikipedia entry on “for want of a nail” shows that a rather similar earlier version exists. Shakespeare probably strengthened the reference to Richard by having him shout, A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! after he was unhorsed in the battle (Richard III, Act V, Scene 4).↩︎", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In A Nutshell\nIn the 1930s, a visionary astronomer named Fritz Zwicky was the first to recognize cosmic rays, dark matter, dwarf galaxies, gravitational lenses, neutron stars, and supernovas. He also had eccentric ideas about colonizing other planets by using nuclear bombs to change their sizes and orbits. However, his colleagues abruptly dismissed most of his theories regardless of whether they made sense or not. Although Zwicky remained friendly with his school’s administrative staff and students, he publicly lashed out at colleagues, which some say cost him his place in history. Zwicky’s daughter, Barbarina, is on a one-woman mission to change what she feels is an unfair perception of her father.\nThe Whole Bushel\nIn the 1930s, a visionary astronomer named Fritz Zwicky was the first to recognize cosmic rays, dark matter, dwarf galaxies, gravitational lenses, neutron stars, and supernovas. Probably, his work would have earned just about anyone else worldwide fame and honors from his peers.\nLike so many great scientists, he was clearly a man ahead of his time. Although some of his ideas were accepted, his colleagues abruptly dismissed most of his theories regardless of whether they made sense or not. For example, astronomers agreed with his ideas about supernovas, but they thought neutron stars and gravitational lenses were nonsense. However, many of Zwicky’s pioneering theories, including those on neutron stars, were later confirmed by other scientists. It wasn’t until 1967 that astronomers discovered pulsars, which are spinning neutron stars. In 1979, after Zwicky’s death, scientists located the first gravitational lenses.\nAlthough Zwicky went against the theoretical norm in science for his time, he was also regarded as overbearing and abrasive by some of his colleagues. “Astronomers are spherical bastards,” he supposedly said. “No matter how you look at them, they are just bastards.” He lambasted his fellow astronomers, some by name, in an introduction to his published catalog of bright compact galaxies. He accused fellow scientists of stealing his ideas and hiding their mistakes. Supposedly, he even called one associate, Walter Baade, “the Nazi” during World War II.\nJesse Greenstein, former head of the Astronomy Department at Caltech, is on record as saying, “I disliked him as a human being. He was vain and very self-centered. Zwicky had an enormous facility to produce radical new ideas, some of which proved to be correct, but a lot of us wish he had not been so rough in the process.”\nAlthough Zwicky publicly lashed out at colleagues, which some say cost him his place in history, he remained friendly with his school’s administrative staff and students. So it’s unclear if his rancor for his colleagues occurred because they were competitors, because he was frustrated by what he perceived as their unfair treatment and lack of vision, or both.\nLike most people who blaze new ground in big ways, he had his share of clunker ideas. For example, he believed we should colonize other planets by using nuclear bombs to change their sizes and orbits. He also wanted to turn the Sun into a giant spaceship through nuclear fusion reactions that would pull Earth along with it. Sounds crazy. Then again, if the future repeats the past, it’s possible the rest of us just haven’t caught up with his thinking. But he did insist that if America didn’t implement some of his wilder ideas, the Russians would. Obviously, that never happened. As brilliant as he was, he made mistakes, too.\nZwicky’s daughter, Barbarina, is on a one-woman mission to change what she feels is an unfair perception of her father. She also wants him to be given his rightful place in scientific history. Some of the quotes attributed to Zwicky about “spherical bastards” and “the Nazi” were printed in Richard Preston’s book, First Light, after Zwicky’s death. Barbarina calls Preston’s description of her father a “vile, slanderous, vicious attack.” She wanted to pursue Preston legally, but found she had no rights to do so. There were several other books that angered her with these types of descriptions. She believes colleagues at Caltech stayed away from Zwicky because they were ashamed, envious, and in awe of him.\nBarbarina intends to pass down her crusade against her father’s detractors to her son. But as time goes on, the personality issues are being forgotten in favor of Zwicky’s scientific achievements. Unfortunately, they weren’t always appreciated when he was alive.\nShow Me The Proof\nFeatured photo via Wikipedia\nAmerican Museum of Natural History: Fritz Zwicky’s Extraordinary Vision\nio9.com: The Astronomer Who Wanted to Rearrange the Solar System, Using Nukes\nDiscover: The Father of Dark Matter Still Gets No Respect\nNew Mexico Museum of Space History: Fritz Zwicky\nDaytona Beach Morning Journal: He Offers A Look At Future", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How to Make a Lead in Minecraft – In Minecraft, the ones who have mobility are called mobs. They are consisting of animals, monsters, and zombies.\nThere are some categories on mobs, for example, passive mobs, utility mobs, and tameable mobs. Furthermore, there is an instrument that is made especially for utility and passive mobs.\nThe name is lead or leash. In this chance, we will get to know how to make a lead in minecraft.\nHow to Make a Lead in Minecraft: A Lead to the Leash\nAs the name suggests, lead is mainly used for leading or assisting the movement of utility mobs and passive mobs. Passive mobs are the ones who give us lesser amount of pain.\nSee Also : How to Make a Trident in Minecraft\nOn the contrary, utility mobs acts as a shield to protect us from the hostile ones. The degree of lead’s rarity is considered low, so it can be accessed easily. Then, it is one of various renewable items in Minecraft.\nHow We Can Access the Lead?\nThere are two ways to access the lead. The first way is surely by gathering some appropriate materials and turns them into the lead. The second way is you can do chest looping\nThe Lead’s Working Process\nThe Minecraft lead can reach the 10 blocks at max so it’s quite a stretchy element in Minecraft. Then, you can stick or attach the lead to some other items, like fences and ships.\nWhat You Need to Create a Lead?\nIt takes two to tango! That’s true! These two materials can make an excellent lead at the end of the day. Okay, now, let our hands and computer do their job. At first, you need to have these items with you:\n- 4 pieces of string\n- One slimeball\nLet’s Jump Into the Steps Right Away!\nLet’s get our limbs and screen work for finishing the maze on how to make a lead in Minecraft.\nSee Also : How to Make a Minecraft Server with Hamachi\nStep 1: Each and every Minecraft tools’ crafting process must be started by opening the 3×3 grid of crafting.\nStep 2: Carry those materials into the 3×3 grid of crafting. For this lead recipe, we will utilize 5 boxes out of 9 boxes.\nYou may begin the process by inputting the slimeball to the second row, to be exact, in the middle square.\nAfter that, put the first two strings in the first grid row. Next, carefully place the third string next to the slimeball.\nSee Also : How to Make Charcoal in Minecraft\nThen, the last thing that you must do is putting the fourth string in the 9th box or the last grid row.\nStep 3: Add your lead to your own Inventory\nOther Recipes of Lead That You Shouldn’t Miss\nBesides just a solid lead, you can be imaginative with your lead. You may add more ingredients, like lapis lazuli, helium, latex, and colorful ink to create a colorful balloon.\nHowever, if you prefer a simpler balloon, you can just insert latex, helium, and black ink to have it.\nI hope that this article is helpful in solving how to make a lead in Minecraft.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "IN THIS CHAPTER\nWhy user accounts?\nCreating and managing user accounts\nUsing user accounts\nRecovering forgotten passwords\nUser account control secrets\nManaging credentials and online IDs\nEvery person who uses your computer is called a user, and each user should have his or her own user account on the computer. Giving each person a user account is a lot like giving each person his or her own separate PC, but a lot cheaper. Each user can personalize the desktop and other settings. Each person can have his or her own separate collection of pictures, music, videos, and other files. Each user can also set up his or her own separate e-mail account.\nUser accounts allow parents to create and enforce parental controls in Windows 8.1. This is a great tool for parents who can't always monitor when and how children use the computer. Parental controls allow you to control and monitor children's computer use 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, even when you're not around to do it yourself.\nUser accounts also add a level of security to your computer. Many security breaches occur not because of a problem with the computer or Windows, but because the user is in an account that grants malware (bad software) permission to do its evil deeds. Of course, people don't realize that they're granting permission because the program doesn't ask for permission. It gets its permission automatically from the type of user account you're currently logged into. ...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Attic black-figure neck amphora, ‘Dionysus and The Maenads’, was created and signed by the Amasis Painter in 540-535 BCE. It depicts a mythological, mundane snapshot of Dionysus and two of his female followers, The Maenads, who are shown to be in the middle of offering the god a hare and a fawn. The vase now finds it home in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris and is deemed a paragon of Archaic vase painting with its palmette compositions, mythological depictions and use of the Black figure.\n· Neck amphora: A vase shape where the neck joins with the body of the vase at a sharp angle. Its use was for storage.\n· Dionysus: One of the Twelve Olympians who was the god of wine and fertility.\n· The Maenads: Female worshippers of Dionysus.\n· Geometric period: Time of Greek history during 900-700 BCE.\n· Archaic period: Time of Greek history during 699-480 BCE.\n· Black-Figure Technique: Figures were illustrated by using a black pigmented clay with intricate details incised into the clay using a sharp instrument.\n· Exekias: Greek vase painter who worked between 545-530 BCE.\nThe Black-Figure Technique\nIt was in Corinth in 700 BCE that Black-Figure painting was born. The movement into naturalism and the portrayal of everyday life with the use of mythological figures also began to dominate the art scene, particularly in the Archaic era (699 – 480 BCE). Alongside the clay application and firing to the vase, the more intricate details were incised by using a sharp tool to create features such as hair, drapery designs and decoration. The fine incisions in Dionysus’ hair would have been created through the use of a needle, whereas his garments and the panther skin dresses of The Maenads, which was cleverly used by The Amasis Painter as a homage to Dionysus’ symbol, the panther, would have been delineated through the black clay pigment. The Amasis Painter also incorporated the fundaments of the Black Figure period upon his vases: the use of the black pigment contrasted to the white to show the difference between men and women (Dionysus is illustrated in Black Figure, whereas The Maenads in white); almond/oval-shaped eyes for women and profile facing figures (all three figures). The Black Figure technique would soon be replaced by the Red Figure technique in the late 6th century, but it was The Amasis Painter who was and still is revered for being a master at utilising the Black Figure technique.\nThe Amasis Painter attempts to show movement within his vase through the bent arm and raised feet of the Maenads to imitate the frivolous nature of Dionysus and his cult. The movement of The Maenads is contrasted by the stillness of Dionysus’ garment, which reignites Dionysus’ ascendancy as a deity through the movement convulsing onto him – not him moving towards his followers. The Maenads were believed to be possessed by Dionysus and were labelled throughout antiquity as the raving ones. They would use the wine of Dionysus to induce a frenzied state and spend their time indulging in dancing, intercourse and ecstasy. The connection between the Maenads of their arms around one another’s shoulders and their interlocking figures indicates an amicable and respectable aurora between the followers and deity: they feel as if they can behave in an eased manner in front of Dionysus. Albeit the depiction of movement is not revolutionary in style and in some cases static (Dionysus reaching out for his offering for example), it still encapsulates an essence of closeness between the god and his followers through the cordial closeness in the three figures.\nThere is an attempt at portraying naturalistic anatomy, but it can be seen as perplexing when trying to distinguish the figures from one another. The Maenads are registered as a conjoined figure instead of two individual women, it is puzzling to work out whose arm belongs to the correct woman at first glance, which therefore makes it seem that the two are a whole entity instead of separate. The different patterns on their dresses do help to differentiate them from one another, however, the Amasis painter lacks to create humanised space between them. Dionysus’ stature indicates his strength, however, it is the ‘lesser’ parts of his anatomy that are unnatural. For example, his fingers are exceptionally elongated which creates more of a cartoon feel than a natural one. These inconsistencies in anatomy simply can be credited towards the movement from the Geometric era of art into the Archaic, where artists, the Amasis Painter and Exekias in particular, began to experiment with naturalism over idealism in their works. Whilst it isn’t the most flawless delineation of the human body, it paved the way for the next generation of artists to work on.\nSymmetry and Cohesion\nMertens observation of how “The Amasis Painter is recognizable by his preference for symmetry, precision and clarity, and expressiveness through mastery of his medium and composition” does indeed prove correct due to the examples portrayed upon the amphora. When talking about aesthetics, the vase is pleasing: the decoration is based upon symmetry and repetition and there is a ‘W’ shaped symmetrical pattern with the hare being centre to the composition. What is most cohesive about the vase is the recognition of the ornamental borders of lotuses, palmettes and tendril décor which takes its inspiration from the Geometric era. The mixture of the figures with the patterns and borders does indeed bring the vase to life: it is not a mundane vase where you lose attention quickly, it elicits a bacchanal scene which moulds itself into the tales of the myths.\nOverall, the Amasis Painter’s amphora, Dionysus and The Maenads is a key example of Archaic vase artistry and does indeed allow the Amasis Painter to be credited, dutifully, for his skill and craftsmanship when creating such winsome vessels. The painter certainly snapshotted the mythological scenes upon his vase in an attempt of anthropomorphising Gods for the benefit of the mortals to make them feel closer to the Gods. The closeness and affection demonstrated between Dionysus and The Maenads helps both contemporary and modern viewers to recognise the relationship between the cult and the deity and gives a clear representation of how important it was to follow religious practices and to respect the polytheistic nature of society. Without a doubt, this amphora is truly one of the more intriguing pieces of material culture in Greek art and the work of the Amasis painter helped the next generation to elaborate and expand upon the foundations himself, and the other Archaic artists, created.\nJoan R. Mertens, The Amasis Painter and His World, 168; R. M. Cook, Greek Painted Pottery, 3rd ed. (London: Routledge, 1997), 83.\nTheoi.com, n.d. K12.28 DIONYSUS & MAENADS AMASIS PAINTER. [image] Available at: <https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/K12.28.html> [Accessed 17 January 2021].\nAcademus Education is an online learning platform providing free Classics Education to students through summer schools, articles and digital think tanks. If you wish to support us, please buy us a coffee on our ko-fi page.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tobacco Prevention Resources for Providers\nThe 2014 Surgeon General's Report: The Health Consequences of Smoking marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark 1964 report, the first federal government report linking smoking with specific diseases.\nAmerican Lung Association\nThe American Lung Association website provides a summary of state ranking and grading on tobacco prevention and control, how to take action, and spread the word.\nBest Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs\nCDC's Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs—2014 is an evidence-based guide to help states plan and establish effective tobacco control programs to prevent and reduce tobacco use.\nCenters for Disease Control and Prevention\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides a website that focuses on youth tobacco prevention that consists of educational materials, fact sheets, campaigns and multimedia tools.\nDepartment of Housing and Urban Development\nHUD and federal partners developed smoke free tool kits for public housing agency management and residents. HUD published “Change is in the Air” Action Guide.\nNational Native Network\nNational Native Network is a public health resource that serves to decrease commercial tobacco use and cancer health disparities among members of American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes across North America.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, tasteless poisonous gas. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning are dizziness, nausea, headaches, and in more severe exposures can lead to convulsions, respiratory arrest, and ultimately death.\nCarbon monoxide poisoning is the most common cause of injury and death due to poisoning worldwide.The CDC reports, “Each year, more than 500 Americans die from unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning. Poisoning is typically more common during the winter months due to increased use of gas furnaces, gas or kerosene space heaters, and kitchen stoves during the winter months, which if faulty or used without adequate ventilation, may produce high levels of carbon monoxide.\nPeople may have different carbon monoxide tolerance levels. Exposures at 100 ppm or greater is considered dangerous. In the United States, the OSHA limits long-term workplace exposure levels to less than 50 ppm averaged over an 8-hour period. If an upper limit of 100 ppm is reached, employees are to be removed from the confined space .\nCarbon monoxide is produced, among other ways, as a by-product of the incomplete combustion process of fuel gases, such as natural gas, propane, and butane. Fuel gas appliances, including water heaters, gas furnaces and boilers, use fuel gases as the heating source.\nPrevailing mechanical and gas codes and the manufacturer’s installation instructions govern the installation of gas appliances and the associated venting. Deviations from these guidelines can lead to excessive carbon monoxide levels and carbon monoxide poisoning.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Wanca (from Proto Uralic *wanča ‘root’) is a collection of links to web pages written in various Uralic languages. The pages have been found using the automated system developed in the SUKI project. At the moment, Wanca consists of 57 491 links to 919 sites containing pages written in 36 of the smaller Uralic languages.\nYou can browse the link collection through the languages and language groups or by the list of top-domains. See instructions for how to use Wanca. Native speakers and scholars are invited to create a personal account and help us verify the language labels given to the pages by our automatic language identifier. The verified links will be used for new crawls and to further improve our language identifier. After signing up you can apply for expert rights by sending us a message through our contact form.\nIn the SUKI project we are promoting the smaller Uralic languages and we do not intentionally collect links to pages written in Hungarian, Finnish or Estonian. Wanca is the result of the Language Programme of the Kone Foundation for small Finno-Ugric languages.\n* The site is still under construction. When initially identifying the language of the links we found, we did not want to miss any potential texts written in small Uralic languages. Therefore, the site contains many links that turned out not to contain the target languages. We are re-identifying the links with a stricter filter, but with automatical language identification it is not possible to identify the language of all web pages correctly so we need the help of those who know these languages. We also wanted to get feedback on both the site and the links and, therefore, opened the site for public use already at this stage. A list of the recent updates made to Wanca can be found here.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Modernisation and Dependency Theory Essay Sample\n- Word count: 2217\n- Category: development\nA limited time offer!\nGet a custom sample essay written according to your requirements urgent 3h delivery guaranteedOrder Now\nModernisation and Dependency Theory Essay Sample\nThe aim of this essay is to compare and contrast the modernization and dependency theories. It then attempts to determine which theory explains what is going wrong in developing countries. The essay begins by defining theory. Secondly, it defines the modernization and dependency theories and their examples that attempt to offer an explanation on what is going wrong in developing countries. A conclusion is finally drawn to summarize the comparisons and contrast between the two theories. Theory refers to a set of logical propositions that explain a given phenomenon. It is a set of organized ideas that offer logical explanations of the interrelationships among different variables, (Oxford dictionary, 2000). Development theories are, therefore, a set of logical propositions that explain how development occurred in history and how it should occur. Development theories particularly aim to reduce and eliminate oppression and poverty for example, in order to improve human conditions. Modernization is a process of change towards higher levels of development or civilization towards those of the western and European nations or the north countries.\nModernism entails a style and movement in art, architecture and literature popular in the mid 20th century in which modern ideas, methods and materials were used rather than traditional ones, (Ibid). It involves the association of economic growth and development with progress and civilization. Growth is perceived to be a natural process which can be facilitated by rational utilization of inputs and available resources. Dependency refers to a country or an area that is controlled by another country, (Opt. cit). It is a situation where a certain group of countries have their economies conditioned by another group of countries. It implies reliance upon developed countries’ local and international economic policy to stimulate growth. Overtime, developed countries’ education systems, attitudes, manner of dress and consumption patterns are adopted by developing countries. Development is considered to be imitative in the sense that poor countries gradually assume qualities and characteristics of developed countries.\nThe modernization became significantly popular in the 1950’s and 1960’s. It arose from Western Europe’s experience of economic history. It was boosted by the emergence of capitalism and the advancement of the industrial revolution. In 1960, an economic historian called W. Rostow devised five evolutionary stages in which a society passes through to attain economic development. They are called the linear stages model of economic development. Rostow states that economics provides the initial thrust of modernization. The stages are namely: * Traditional society; where production is limited by insufficiently developed economic techniques because of simple technology. Agriculture is the dominant form of production and the central organizing social elements are clan or extended family relationships. * Pre-conditions for take-off; where agriculture is the leading sector of production, hence, influencing growth in other sectors of production. That is, agro productivity increases and supports non-agricultural sectors.\nImprovement then follows in transportation and other social facilities. * Take off stage; here there is expansion of modern industry yielding profits that can be reinvested in new plans and ventures. The demand for factory workers increases, raw materials such as copper are processed to boost further industrial growth and, GDP per capita is usually 5-10 percent. Zambia for example, is undergoing this stage. Between 1880 and 1920, America’s industry rose from 25 percent to 33 percent in national economic contribution while agriculture trickled down from 51 percent to 26 percent, (Davidson W.J. et al, 1994: 661). * Drive to maturity; where economic growth is sustained. Modern technology is extended throughout the expanding economy. National incomes of 10-20 percent are invested leading to output greater than population growth. Colonialism and exploitation of underdeveloped nations contributed to the acquisition of 10-20 percent national incomes. Sophisticated technology broadens the economy.\n* Age of high mass consumption; this stage is prevalent in the world’s most advanced economies like the US and Europe. Advanced economic sectors are dominated by consumer durables and service provision. The north nations attained this stage in the 1950s. The modernization theory suggests that all other countries can acquire modernity based on the idea of growth and expansion of capitalism and industrialism. Proponents argue that for a country to be considered modern, it has to undergo an evolutionary advance in science and technology which in turn leads to increased standards of living. The theory advocates; mass-media as means to disseminate modern ideas, encouragement of utilization of domestic resources, Western investment in factories, expertise and equipment. These therefore, trickle down development from a macro to a micro level. The United States of America experienced modernization in the 19th century after the civil war through industrialization.\nIt involved industrial transformations in trade, industry, transport and communication. For example, railroads were introduced in 1882 and, from 1880 to 1914; steel production skyrocketed because of rich resources, cheap labor and aggressive management, (Davidson W.J. et al, 1994: 653). In the early 19th century, inventions were trial and error but they later became orderly and systematic. In 1876, a scientist called Edison Thomas Alvin introduced electricity and his first scientific laboratory. In 1898 there were nearly 3000 power stations in America. Electricity ran trolley cars, subways, and factory machinery. It therefore, revolutionized industry, (Ibid). Larger ships with larger engines were invented and American exports tripled in 1870 to 1900. Investors in these initiatives were internal. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. Telephones modernized offices and eased business transactions. Industrialization helps rationalize economics, increases wealth, and increases productivity.\nThis leads to urban explosion and growth of cities. Mass media soared in 1889. Other sectors of production such as timber and steel, education and art bloomed in 1901 in America. In1927, Henry Ford invented the Model T cars. Cars contributed to social mobility, (Opt. cit). Political structures were more organized and, rights and freedoms were implemented. In the modernization theory, economic progress and civilization advance from traditional society, where ascription, particularism and collectivism are dominant, to a modern society, where achievement, universalism and individualism are characteristic. In a traditional society, there is superstition and ascription of events to causality of mythical phenomenon. Societal organization is based on kinship and monarchy, tools and weapons are primitive, animals are used for farming and transportation, communication relies on marathon, drums and smoke, there is limited social mobility and, wealth is determined by material possession.\nIn a modern society, there is no dominance of tradition, social mobility is largely determined by hard work and achievements, technology is sophisticated, wealth is determined by both material and monetary terms, people are innovative and entrepreneurs. Communities are considerably industrialized. The modernization theory has its shortfalls in that it dictates Western and European theories as recommended values. It devalues tradition such as clans and polygamy. It ignores the differences that grow between countries. It assumes unlimited resources of national expansion. It does not consider the global impact of factors such as trends of trade on third world nations should there be macroeconomic market failure. This freezes third world economies as they rely on global trade policies. Modernization also ignores negative environmental externalities such as global warming. Developed nations such as the US and China largely contribute to global warming and pollution of the seas and oceans.\nThe theory also considers poverty in third world nations to be internally induced. Dependency developed early into an important theoretical concern within the larger context of expanding revolutionary movements in the 1960s and 1970s, across Africa and Latin America for example. It was a way to understand class conflict and to aid in the formulation of strategies to restructure developing nations, (Hogan M.J. and Peterson T.G, 1991: 101). These formulations are the replacement of capitalism with socialism which led to revolutions. The dependency theory also serves to explain imperialism in a broader context in economic, political and socio-cultural perspectives. Marxism proposes that economics are the key determinants of political, social and cultural forms, (Ibid). The dependency theory emerged as an explanation of development and underdevelopment. Underdevelopment is seen as a function of the expansion of capitalism, not as a natural state through which economic systems evolve.\nAccording to Theotonio dos Santos in 1970 (quoted by Hogan and Peterson, 1991: 102), dependency is a situation in which the economy of certain countries is conditioned by the development and expansion of another economy to which the former is subjected. The dependency theory establishes the relationship between development and underdevelopment. For example, Britain as a metropolis flourished at the expense of Zambia, the periphery. The improvement of underdeveloped nations is a function of the prosperity of the developed nations, (Opt. cit.). Imperialism is a guarantee that whatever development occurs in the underdeveloped nations is dependent upon and complementary to the developed nation’s needs, that is, the latter influences economic growth in the former as a function of its own economic interests. Subordination of underdeveloped countries results from internal structures that operate on behalf of developed countries’ interests.\nThe principle of imperialism rather overlooks the importance of internal social and cultural factors as sources of underdevelopment. The structure of foreign trade in the dependency paradigm – historically, exports of raw materials and import of manufactured products- arrests economic growth, skews income distribution, and fosters private investments, trade negotiations, and credit transactions- instruments of developed countries’ policy that act to preserve the internal balance of social forces favoring their interests. In 1987, the World Bank reported that many developing countries are still dependent on earnings from primary production, (WBAR, 1987: 45). The dependency theory also implies dependent social classes and dependent military organization. Dependency limits the options available for change as underdeveloped countries are technologically dependent, culturally dependent, capital dependent, ideological dependent , and industrial dependent. According to Kenneth Kaunda (quoted by Legum C., 1966: 208), he clearly stated that Zambia needed foreign money, foreign capital for investment.\nTo give more jobs to the Zambian people; to bring more know-how, so that members of trade unions could learn how to function and perform. Dependency limits possibilities for change and autonomous developments in the periphery are associated with the metropolis. Dependency formulations emphasis on international relations as foreign aid, foreign investment, and trade relations, that is, the metropolis influences the periphery. Dependency theory concludes that underdevelopment is an externally induced condition. The World Commission on Environment and Development (quoted by Warren M.D. et al, 1989: 162), states that poverty grows as poor countries export growing amounts of scarce resources. Dependent countries lack the capacity to sustain independent development because their economic structures are dependent ones.\nDependant industrialization involves multinational corporations raising capital from local resources, hence, integrating local capitalists into dominant economies. Developing countries’ outflow of income attracts foreign loans. The receipt of foreign loans results in greater domination of national decision-making autonomy, that is, borrowers are obliged to concede to lenders as a condition of the loan. Policies are then explained to and approved by lenders; the local economy then invariably opens to foreign capital, (Hogan and Peterson, 1991: 107). Zambia’s macroeconomic situation steadily deteriorated after the mineral boom that took place in the first ten years of independence (1965-1975). This was manifested in high variable rates of inflation, chronic budget deficits and deterioration in balance of trade with its trading partners. The high debt level can be attributed to increased borrowing and failure by Zambia to attain total debt cancellation, (ZHDR, 2003: 21). Zambia’s debt situation is unsustainable and is a heavy burden on present and future generations as it poses serious constraints to sustainable economic growth. International development agencies such as the World Bank, seek to upgrade the standards of living in the less industrialized nations of Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania and the Caribbean.\nThey help poorer nations make more efficient use of their resources due to their technological disadvantage, (Warren M.D. et al, 1989: 162). The World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the United Nations proposed aid to underdeveloped nations in 1958 through several debates with developed nations, (Lloyd T, 1968: 145). Deforestation, desertification and droughts are endemic on underdeveloped nations; these natural factors retard the local people’s well-being. Underdeveloped nations are hence integrated within the global market. Developing countries’ marketable goods are unskilled labor and raw materials such as petroleum, copper, gold, sugar, coffee, rubber and cotton. They are some of the most demanded products. The development finance policies mobilize natural resources not for development but for the interests of foreign manufacturers.\nAccording to McMaster C. (1974: 79), economic slowdowns in developing countries reflect dependence on agriculture affected by adverse weather resulting to poor quality and low quantity production. To conclude, since the industrial revolution, those who live by ‘tradition’ have been looked upon by many ‘modernists’ as backward, lazy and stupid. Not all indigenous knowledge is applicable to development concerns. This perception has endured through the industrial society and its agencies for international development. The lack of initiative to modernize in developing nations can be attributed to the following; the adoption of inappropriate policies and false inappropriate advice from Eurocentric experts from developed countries, increasing differences between the rich and poor countries, and poor resource allocation. According to Zuma (quoted by Maharaj B. et al, 2010: 118), it is hard to remove exchange controls on domestic corporations in order to engage capital flight. Black capitalists focus primarily on promoting small businesses without affecting domestic industrialization.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Fourteen years ago this month, the first hacking scheme to be reported in mainstream newspapers appeared. This was the infamous “I Love You” hack, an email message with the subject line “ILOVEYOU” and the attachment “LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs”. In May of 2000, this hack affected tens of millions of computers and caused untold damage.\nSince then, hacks such as I Love You, which are called Phishing, are routinely reported. IT departments regularly send out messages warning users not to open suspicious emails or click on attachments if they are unsure. Nevertheless, the number of successful phishing hacks continues to grow.\nThe Globe and Mail published articles highlighting this problem. In one article, officials at Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) were concerned that the department was subjected to an organized cyber-spying campaign in 2011. The article suggests that the hackers, who are suspected to be the Chinese backed “People’s Liberation Army”, gained access to the IRB’s computers through a phishing email sent to an Immigration adjudicator in Vancouver.\nAlthough it has been said many times, if you are the least bit unsure of the validity of an email, don’t open it, and seek assistance immediately.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "There are a variety of open-source deep learning frameworks to choose from including Keras, TensorFlow, Caffe2, and MXNet among others. At ODSC West in 2018, Stephanie Kim, a developer at Algorithmia, gave a great talk introducing the deep learning framework PyTorch. Primarily developed by Facebook, PyTorch enables a suite of machine learning functions in Python that offer some considerable advantages over libraries like TensorFlow.\n[Related Article: Using RAPIDS with PyTorch]\nPyTorch can be used for a variety of functions from building neural networks to decision trees due to the variety of extensible libraries including Scikit-Learn, making it easy to get onboard. Previous versions of PyTorch did not enable rapid deployment of models with a variety of environments, but since March 2018, PyTorch added a Caffe2 backend, substantially streamlining the deployment process. Importantly, the platform has gained substantial popularity and established community support that can be integral in solving usage problems.\nA key feature of Pytorch is its use of dynamic computational graphs. Computation graphs (e.g. below) state the order of computations defined by the model structure in a neural network for example. The backpropagation process uses the chain rule to follow the order of computations and determine the best weight and bias values.\nDynamic computational graphs employed by PyTorch allow flexibility in the order of computations by creating a new dynamic computation graph for each iteration of an epoch. This allows models to change structure through training which can be advantageous for recurrent neural networks, for example. PyTorch then employs reverse automatic differentiation, working backwards through the computational graph to calculate derivatives. Some libraries like TensorFlow support only static computational graphs, so model structure stays the same for each epoch. While TensorFlow is less flexible through batch iterations, each node is independent from each other, so it can allow for parallel computation. One can then distribute the computational workload to improve efficiency and employ both CPUs and GPUs simultaneously. Regarding GPU usage, PyTorch enables users to specify its use at various stages of the development process such as embedding on CPU, but computing the neural network on GPU, saving GPU cost.\nThe imperative programming in PyTorch results in the code running exactly how the developer wrote it. Imperative programming allows developers to debug quickly because each line can be run sequentially, and will have a specific error message. Additionally, developers can set breakpoints or print computation as they go. In contrast, TensorFlow employs symbolic programming where a model is compiled into a function, and then called at the end. While symbolic programming does not allow each line to be run sequentially, it is more computationally efficient than imperative programming.\nWhile there are many tools out there for deep learning, Stephanie Kim illustrated some key advantages of using PyTorch. PyTorch specifically offers natural support for recurrent neural networks that generally run faster in the platform due to the ability to include variable inputs and dynamic computational graphs. Another key advantage is the ease of deployment through the Caffe2 backend. While there seems to be no perfect library, PyTorch offers a competitive package for machine learning in Python.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Saturday, November 29, 2008\nA glimpse of the early church\n“Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus. They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.” (Romans 16:3-4)\nPriscilla and Aquila are mentioned six times in the New Testament (Acts 18:2, Acts 18:18, Acts 18:26, Romans 16:2, 1 Corinthians 16:19, 2 Timothy 4:19). Aquila was a Jew from Pontus who had settled in Rome, but was forced to leave the city, along with Priscilla, because Claudius expelled the Jews from there (Acts 18:2). Aquila was a tentmaker like Paul. In fact, this is likely how they came to know each other, when Paul had to work in Corinth to support himself during his missionary work. When Paul left Corinth to go to Ephesus, Priscilla and Aquila went with him. However, when Paul moved on, they stayed at Ephesus, and that was where God used them to explain the gospel to Apollos (Acts 18:24-26).\n“Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.” (Romans 16:5b)\nNote that Epenetus was Paul’s “dear friend” and “was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.” Since Paul had evangelized Asia, it is likely that Paul had led Epenetus to Christ. This would explain their close relationship.\n“Greet Mary, who worked very hard for you.” (Romans 16:6)\nThe ‘Mary’ mentioned here is likely a different Mary than the various other Marys mentioned in the New Testament. Since Paul tells the Romans that Mary “worked very hard for you,” Mary must have been from Rome. It could have very possibly been Priscilla and Aquila that told Paul about Mary when they came to Corinth about the time that Paul first arrived there.\n“Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.” (Romans 16:7)\nCalling Andronicus and Junias his relatives could mean that they were members of his own extended family, but it probably only means that they were Jews. They became Christians before Paul did, so they must have been believers from the very earliest days of the church in Jerusalem.\n“Greet Ampliatus, whom I love in the Lord.” (Romans 16:8)\nAmpliatus was a common slave name. In Domatilla, the earliest of the Christian catacombs, there is an elaborate tomb with the word “Ampliatus” on it. Free men had more than one name, so this single name seems to imply that it was the tomb of a slave. However, since it is elaborate, it seems to be the tomb of an important person in the church, and in the Roman church, there were no distinctions based upon whether a person was a slave or free. “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28)\n“Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' household. Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.” (Romans 16:10-11)\nPaul speaks only of the households of Aristobulus and Narcissus, implying that he did not know them personally. In Rome, the word ‘household’ not only described a man’s immediate family, but also included his household domestics or slaves as well. In Rome, there had lived a man named Aristobulus, who had been the grandson of the Jewish king Herod the Great. When he died, his slaves would have fallen under the ownership of the Emperor and would have been known as “the household of Aristobulus.” So, Paul’s greeting may have been to those Jewish slaves who belonged to this household, but who had become Christians and were members of the Roman church. This is especially likely because the name Herodion derives from Herod, so Herodion may have been one of the leading slaves of this household. Narcissus might possibly be the same person as a wealthy freedman by the same name, who had been prominent under Claudius, but had been put to death by Nero when he took the throne.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Boredom is the mind's rest, that moment of indecision.\nToo often we hear, \" If you're bored I'll give you something to do\", and we all know what that means! That something is usually in the form of chores or distasteful tasks.\nIt's OK to be bored. It's OK not to know what to do next. Our minds need the TIME to rest and think to decide on our next move. Children need that time too.\nNext time someone is bored:\n- Ask them, \"What do you feel like doing?\" giving them time to think, all the while remaining silent, but ready to listen wholeheartedly to what they have to say.\n- Ask about their recent projects and playthings, perhaps they want to continue on but have forgotten.\n- \"Strew\". . . put things out in sight that might catch their eye or get them interested or spark a new thought.\n- Start your own activity nearby and they might decide to join in or it may inspire an idea.\n- Change it up. Life, that is. Do things in a different way. Change the room around. Eat meals in a new spot. Try new foods. Take different routes to the same places.\n-Bundle up and go outside, even for 10 minutes. Breathing the cold air invigorates and refreshes. Explore and discover and find something to bring inside.\n-Watch movies, mostly musicals, and set it up like a movie theater with popcorn and drinks.\n-Make tents with blankets, sheets, tablecloths held together with clothespins. Bring in flashlights and books and playthings.\n- Blow up balloons and bat them around the room with your hands. Make a line with masking tape as a boundary line to hit back and forth.\n-Make a rice box ( or beans, lentils ,etc) and add clear containers , measuring cups, spoons, funnels.\n- Have tea parties, with real tea using fancy adult tea cups and foods that you have prepared together.\n- Have a picnic on the floor. Think summer and spread a blanket.\n- Have treasure hunts throughout the house. Children LOVE to find things.\n- Modeling with beeswax or playclay.\nWhatever you do, do it TOGETHER. Sometimes boredom means they want and need your undivided time .\nStay tuned for more easy and fun activities for winter in the house.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "According to tradition, the city of Rome was founded on April 21, 753 BC, by twin brothers, Romulus and Remus, whose father was Mars, the god of war. But the two argued about which hill to build on; and, when Romulus began building his city wall, Remus ridiculed his work by jumping over the wall. Romulus responded by killing him - thus determining which one Rome would be named after! In time, Rome would become the greatest city in the world, the capital of the greatest empire the world had ever yet known.\nTo that same city, some 8 centuries later, came two men, Peter and Paul, brothers not by blood, but by their common faith in Jesus Christ, who had called them to be apostles. The Christian community they found in Rome was small, socially and politically insignificant - an easy target when the Emperor needed scapegoats to blame for a destructive fire. Among those martyred in that 1st Roman persecution of the Church were the apostles Peter and Paul.\nOne story recounts how Peter started to flee but returned to Rome and embraced his martyrdom after meeting Jesus on the road. “Lord, where are you going,” Peter asked. “I am going to Rome to be crucified again,” Jesus responded.\nIf the Christians of Rome required encouragement and confidence to persevere in their new faith, what more powerful reinforcement could they have had than the witness offered by the martyrdom of those two illustrious apostles, who were the Church’s link back to the Risen Lord himself! - Peter, crucified on the Vatican Hill, and Paul, beheaded on the Ostian Way.\nAt the west end of the south aisle, over the simple but impressive altar dedicated to St. Paul, is Robert Reid’s evocative painting depicting St. Paul kneeling calmly and confidently awaiting his imminent martyrdom. Above and below the picture are the famous words we just heard from St. Paul’s 2nd Letter to Timothy: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course. I have kept the faith!” [2 Timothy 4:7]\nInspired by Saint Paul’s evangelical energy and apostolic zeal, on July 7, 1858, Father Isaac Hecker and three other priests founded the “Society of Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle,” known ever since as “The Paulist Fathers.” Three days later, the Archbishop of New York assigned them the care of a new parish on Manhattan’s west side – placed, like the Paulists themselves, under the patronage of St. Paul the Apostle. For over 150 years, the Paulist Fathers have ministered here in this parish, the life and mission of both Paulists and parish intimately tied together. And for most of these years the spiritual center of both Paulists and parish has been this big beautiful church, opened in 1885.\nNowadays, worshippers entering through the main door of this great church, leave the modern secular city and its empire behind by passing under a monumental modern portrayal of what we commonly call Paul’s conversion. That great event transformed Paul from an enemy into a disciple of Jesus and an apostle on equal footing with the others to whom the Risen Lord had earlier appeared. From then on Paul would exemplify – as all of us who pass through that door are being challenged to exemplify - what it means to be truly converted to Christ, his witness in the world, an apostle sent to make disciples of all without exception. That mission is also the theme of the beautiful early 20th-century floor mosaic at the church’s entrance, recalling Paul’s preaching outreach to pagan society and culture in 1st-century Athens.\nIsaac Hecker wanted the architecture of this church to focus attention on the high altar – as indeed everything in the life and mission of the Church must be focused on leading us and the world we live in to Christ.\nAbove the high altar within Stanford White’ golden dome is a verse from the Divine Office for the feast of Saint Paul’s Conversion: “You are a vessel of election, holy apostle Paul,” the response to which, “Preacher of Truth in the whole world,” is in turn inscribed in another mosaic on the church floor at the foot of the sanctuary steps.\nCommunicants coming to the altar rail used to see that mosaic, designed to highlight the symbols of Saint Paul’s apostleship – the book open to Saint Paul’s words, To me, the very least of all the holy ones, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the inscrutable riches of Christ [Ephesians 3:8] and the sword, the symbol of Paul’s martyrdom.\nWhich brings us back to where we started. The old Rome of Romulus – proud, powerful, pagan Rome, based on the murder of one brother by another – was, for all its accomplishments and authentic grandeur, a human state like any other, a warring conqueror conquered in turn by other warring conquerors. The new Christian Rome of Peter and Paul conquered that old Rome, but in a new way. Proud, powerful, pagan Rome, founded on the murder of one brother by another, was in turn conquered by the faith that empowered Peter and Paul as brothers-in-Christ to evangelize an empire and die together as witnesses to a new way of life.\nAs we celebrate this great feast recalling the mission and martyrdom of the Apostles Peter and Paul, here in this Paulist “Mother Church,” let us in turn – as Saint Augustine once recommended on this feast – “embrace what they believed, their life, their labors, their sufferings, their preaching, and their confession of faith” [Sermon 295, 8].\nHomily for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Church of Saint Paul the Apostle, New York, June 30, 2013.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "ESR – Self help with kinesiology\nThis very simple technique is also very powerful and it’s something that you can easily learn to do for yourself and others. Quite simply, the points in the picture below are gently held, either with the whole hand (easier than exactly locating the points) or with two fingers on each point.\nFor your own personal use you can hold these points while focusing of any situation that you are finding stressful. Call the situation to mind, think of how it makes you feel, any colours, smells or sounds associated with the issue. Remember to breathe while you are holding the points. You could also put an essential oil on your fingertips for greater relaxation.\nYou could now imagine how you would like the situation to be. Continue holding the points until you lose focus on the issue.\nNow revisit the original stressful situation and see how it feels. Has it changed? Has the emotional charge reduced?\nI once did ESR for my small niece when she fell off a swing. I held the points (whole hand over the forehead) and said to her “what happened”, she gave me a blubbery, incoherent answer. I continued to hold the points saying “what happened” a few times, then she took a deep breath, calmed down and went back to playing. The stress of the incident had been released. It is great to use with stressed children.\nThe points we are working with here are Gall Bladder 14. This is a neuro vascular point for many muscles in the body, including muscles that relate to the Central, Stomach and Bladder meridians.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "6th grade made brochures to tempt us to go to Egypt! Tell them what you think!\nSunday, September 22, 2013\nSunday, September 8, 2013\nLast week 5th grade started their unit on Atoms, Molecules, and Elements. Our classroom scientists are working in groups to research a topic. This week they will present their posters and information to the class!\nEduardo and Michaela working on Chemical Changes\nEmma and Hugo working on Expansion and Contraction\nJames, Sophia, and Malia working on Chemical Reactions\nConner and Sofia working on Vaporizing and Condensing\nTori and Dylan working on Changes in Size & Shape\nGina and Jared working on Sublimation and Deposition\nArland and Alyssa working on Melting and Freezing", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In the course of a lengthy lecture in The Da Vinci Code, given by the historian Teabing and the “symbologist” Langdon to the befuddled detective Sophie, the supposed truth about Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper is revealed.\nViewing a reproduction of the painting, Sophie — prodded by the two scholars — realizes the person seated to the right of Jesus is a woman. She believes she sees feminine hair and hands “and the hint of a bosom. It was, without a doubt ... female. ‘That’s a woman!’” (page 243). Teabing explains that this “glaring discrepancy” is missed because viewers have such a powerful preconception about the painting that the truth it depicts is overlooked.\nIn other words, only certain special people, with a sort of gnosis (secret knowledge), can see “the truth” about the work.\nNovelist Dan Brown has explained\nin interviews that he was first exposed to this “fact” while attending an art\nBrown’s instructor taught that there is no chalice depicted in the painting, but the “Holy Grail” is actually seated next to Jesus: the person of Mary Magdalene. Brown’s story about his art class may be true, but there is little doubt where most of his “insights” into the painting came from: The Templar Revelation, written by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, especially the first chapter, “The Secret Code of Leonardo Da Vinci.”\nInterviewed by ABC in November 2003, Brown repeated his character’s assertion that people see what they are told to see: “Our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.” The person to Jesus’ right, Brown insisted, is “clearly a woman,” echoing his novel: “It was, without a doubt ... female” (see page 243). How ironic that Brown insists that we see what we are told to see — and then tells us what to see!\nUnfortunately for Brown, virtually\nno art historians or scholars agree with him. Leo Steinberg, widely acclaimed\nas one of\nIn fact, these three have distinctive qualities: Peter’s intense movement forward and wielding of the knife (prefiguring his use of it in the Garden later that evening), Judas recoiling and grasping the bag of money (he was the treasurer for the group), and John’s youthful appearance and contemplative pose.\nThere is also physical evidence of\nwho was who in the painting. A parish\nThe grouping of John, Judas and Peter is purposeful.\nThe group [of three] at Christ’s right, John, Judas and Peter”, Steinberg points out, “clusters the three who are destined for roles in the Passion.”\nJudas betrays Jesus, Peter denies Jesus, and John — “the disciple whom Jesus loved” (John 13:23; 19:26; 20:2; 21:7, 20) — was the only apostle to stand at Jesus’ cross (John 19:26-7).\nSteinberg notes there are also “significant pairs” in the painting, including Peter and John, and Jesus and John. Peter and John are often companions (cf. Luke 22:8), personify “the active and contemplative life” and are “shown putting their heads together.”\nHearing Jesus’ prophecy of impending betrayal, Peter lunges forward in amazement and anger. John is the quiet, reflective contemplative who internalizes the distressing news, his hands folded in a prayerful manner appropriate to the coming death of Jesus. These two true apostles frame Judas, the traitor, who personifies greedy disloyalty. Although there is a large space between Jesus and John, their mirrored images indicate that they are, Steinberg explains, “soul mates ... matched in outline, in (original) hue of garment and tilt of head.”\nViewing the reproduction, Sophie sees “flowing red hair, delicate folded hands, and the hint of a bosom” (page 243). The figure is undoubtedly effeminate, as Leonardo depicted the youthful John in the early-16th century Florentine style. This approach can be seen in other paintings of the period, including Leonardo’s own Saint John the Baptist, which depicts a young man who is effeminate in appearance and also has flowing hair and delicate hands.\nLeonardo’s sketches or writings never suggest that the figure to the right of Christ is Mary Magdalene. But they contain evidence that it is the Apostle John. In a sketch for the painting, Leonardo depicts John leaning over, with his face down and with Christ resting an arm on John’s back. Always looking for new ways to depict character and interrelationships, Leonardo opted to show the Apostle John as a mirror image of Christ and to dramatically isolate Christ against the open window behind him.\nWhat about the chalice?\nThe absence of a large chalice boldly identified as the Holy Grail is important only if we assume that’s what the scene should include. But why should we assume that Leonardo would depict Jesus’ cup any differently than that used by the apostles? In fact, an examination of the painting reveals that each of the figures, including Jesus, has a cup and a piece of bread before them; Jesus’ cup is next to his left hand, his right hand raised over the bread.\nWho to believe: a novelist relying on conspiracy theories or 500 years of scholarship? The answer should be as obvious as the real identity of the person seated to the right of Christ in The Last Supper.\nCarl E. Olson is the co-author, with Sandra Miesel, of The Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code (http://www.davincihoax.com), published by Ignatius Press. He is the editor of IgnatiusInsight.com.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This paper investigates generating symmetric trajectories for an underactuated biped during the stance phase of running. We use a point mass biped (PMB) model for gait analysis that consists of a prismatic force actuator on a massless leg. The significance of this model is its ability to generate more general and versatile running gaits than the spring-loaded inverted pendulum (SLIP) model, making it more suitable as a template for real robots. The algorithm plans the necessary leg actuator force to cause the robot center of mass to undergo arbitrary trajectories in stance with any arbitrary attack angle and velocity angle. The necessary actuator forces follow from the inverse kinematics and dynamics. Then these calculated forces become the control input to the dynamic model. We compare various center-of-mass trajectories, including a circular arc and polynomials of the degrees 2, 4 and 6. The cost of transport and maximum leg force are calculated for various attack angles and velocity angles. The results show that choosing the velocity angle as small as possible is beneficial, but the angle of attack has an optimum value. We also find a new result: there exist biped running gaits with double-hump ground reaction force profiles which result in less maximum leg force than single-hump profiles.\nCitation: Dadashzadeh B, Esmaeili M, Macnab C (2017) Arbitrary Symmetric Running Gait Generation for an Underactuated Biped Model. PLoS ONE 12(1): e0170122. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170122\nEditor: Johnny Padulo, University e-Campus, ITALY\nReceived: July 12, 2016; Accepted: December 29, 2016; Published: January 24, 2017\nCopyright: © 2017 Dadashzadeh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.\nData Availability: All relevant data are within the paper.\nFunding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.\nCompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.\nThe field of legged locomotion has proposed some fundamental models, including the Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum (SLIP), the active SLIP, and the Point Mass Biped (PMB). These models allow one to investigate both walking and running gaits. The SLIP model remains a popular tool to investigate bipedal walking and running gaits . This passive model, consisting of a point mass and a massless spring leg, can generate a center-of-mass (COM) trajectory and a ground-reaction-force (GRF) profile similar to that of human running . This has encouraged researchers to investigate SLIP to try to understand the fundamental dynamics of bipedal running , and also to use it as a template for controlling real biped robots . For any forward velocity, SLIP can generate periodic running gaits that are passively stable in a narrow region of initial condition parameters, but that are unstable for parameters outside it [5,6]. Therefore, some researchers have proposed stabilizing flight-phase and stance-phase controllers for SLIP running. Flight-phase controllers of the passive SLIP model prepare the swing leg for landing. One bio-inspired strategy uses swing-leg retraction, where the swing leg rotates backwards in the second half of the flight phase [7,8]. A dead-beat controller can reject disturbances by adjusting the attack angle or spring stiffness . A control can update each attack angle to be the negative value of the previous take-off angle . Stance-phase controllers require an actuated SLIP architecture in order to add or remove energy from the system. Schmitt et al  proposed a stabilizing control law for an active SLIP with a force actuator parallel to the spring. Seipel et al  and Ankarali et al  proposed control of an active SLIP with torque actuation at the hip and a spring-damper in the leg. Piovan and Byl  considered an active SLIP model with a displacement actuator in series to the spring and presented a control strategy. (Note that these works add some control actions to the SLIP model in order to stabilize the natural gait).\nAs an alternative to SLIP, Srinivasan and Ruina  proposed using a point mass biped (PMB) to investigate biped walking and running gaits using numerical optimization. The PMB consists of a point-foot, a point-mass as the body, and a prismatic-force actuator (instead of a spring) on a massless leg. The PMB is “perhaps the simplest mechanical model that is capable of exhibiting a broad range of gaits including walking and running” . They minimized the mechanical-work cost using numerical optimal control methods, obtaining piecewise linear functions that describe optimal walking and running leg-force profiles. They then described finite-force profiles that approximate the impulsive forces. Rebula and Kuo  generated smoother and more human-like force profiles for the same model by introducing an adjustable weighting between work cost and force-like costs (including leg force and its nth time derivatives). They generated single-hump force profiles for optimal running gaits and double-hump profiles for optimal walking gaits. In this work, we also use PMB instead of SLIP, since it is a more general and fundamental biped model which allows one to investigate more general gaits. Because PMB is an active model not restricted to the trajectories and gait specifications imposed by the leg spring of a SLIP model, it provides a better template for real multibody active robots. For example, there is a unique attack angle for each specific forward velocity in SLIP periodic running, but not with a PMB model. Although both SLIP and PMB can generate human-like gaits (qualitatively speaking), in this work we aim to investigate the effects of choosing various analytic stance trajectories on gait optimality. With proper choice of parameters, we find these general analytic trajectories can also generate human-like gait dynamics. Our work is different from the previous works in [15,16], since we can generate any desired trajectory using the same model and then choose the most optimal gait among these general trajectories. The selected general analytic trajectories are also able to generate human-like gait dynamics with proper choice of parameters.\nSignificant experimental biped robots include the Raibert hopper (a SLIP-like robot with pneumatic actuated legs) , ASIMO (a zero-moment-point controlled walking and running robot with rigid actuation system) , MABEL (a hybrid-zero-dynamics (HZD) walking and running robot with a parallel elastic actuation system) , ATRIAS (a SLIP-based walking and running robot with series elastic actuation system) , and PETMAN (a versatile walking robot developed by Boston Dynamics). However, achieving the agility and efficiency of human running remain open problems. One promising control strategy is to make the real robot follow a minimal model as a template . Poulakakis et al  used SLIP as the HZD of an asymmetric hopper robot in order to generate stable planar hopping motion. Wensing et al  used 3D SLIP as a template to control 3D running and steering of a humanoid robot model. Feedback linearization accomplished tracking in a SLIP COM trajectory of a three-link rigid hopper . Two active SLIP architectures with one and two degrees of actuation were proposed in  as templates for ATRIAS running; the paper proposed a control strategy to follow SLIP, tested successfully in simulations. The results showed that motor torque saturation remains an obstacle to building practical biped running robots.\nOne aim of our work is to develop techniques that require less peak force for the stance leg. The success of the template-anchor methods described above motivates the approach in this paper where we use a more general and versatile template than the SLIP model. We propose a novel control law to make an underactuated robot’s COM follow any smooth trajectory with any arbitrary initial and final stance conditions (using the PMB model); this result should make it easier to control real biped robots subject to real-world constraints like motor torque saturation. (Note that biped robots with point feet are underactuated in stance phase making them uncontrollable using classic feedback control methods.) Here we compare a circular arc and polynomials of various degrees as COM trajectories in stance phase, but our methods can also be applied to other smooth analytical paths. The variation of cost-of-transport (COT), the maximum GRF with respect to angle of attack, and the COM velocity angle serve as criteria to evaluate the proposed methods.\nThe benefits of SLIP include its simplicity and its ability to capture some important dynamics of human running . However, it is totally passive. We propose to use PMB in this work in order to capture the advantages of SLIP while avoiding its passivity disadvantage, although we do compare our results to SLIP. PMB consists of a modified SLIP model where a force actuator replaces the spring (Fig 1). The stance leg in both models endures only compressive forces to keep the foot in contact with the ground. Unlike SLIP, PMB can generate arbitrary running gaits.\nOne step of a running gait includes a stance phase, a take-off, a flight phase and a touch-down. Stance and flight phases are continuous time phases, while take-off and touch-down are instantaneous events. In the stance phase the foot is assumed to be an ideal frictionless passive pivot to the ground. Take-off is an instantaneous transition from stance to flight phase with no discontinuities, occurring when the vertical component of the GRF becomes zero. In flight the robot behaves as a ballistic point mass. Due to the massless legs, there is no impact at touch-down and so no changes occur in the robot’s configuration and velocities. The touch-down state becomes the next stance phase initial condition, with no discontinuities.\nIn stance phase both SLIP and PMB models have 2 DOFs that can be modeled using Cartesian or polar coordinate systems. The body mass is denoted by m, the leg length by r, the leg angle with respect to vertical by θ, the leg axial force in PMB by Fr, the spring stiffness in SLIP by Ks, the Cartesian unit vectors by i and j, and the polar unit vectors by er and eθ. We assume stance state vector . So constitutes the initial condition of stance. The stance phase equations of motion for SLIP using Cartesian coordinates are (1) which constitutes a passive system that utilizes elastic potential energy to boost the mass. On the other hand, PMB (2) is an active model without elastic elements and uses only control input Fr to boost the mass.\nIn flight, the ballistic motion of the robot can be described in a straightforward manner using Cartesian coordinates. The massless leg is assumed to be able to move to any desired angle instantaneously with no energy consumption. The flight state vector is . The dynamic model for running can be expressed as in the equation below, where + and - superscripts show the instances just after and just before events, respectively.(3)\nRunning Gait Generation\nFor the stance phase trajectories we try a circular arc and polynomials of different degrees. Our method generates running gaits and calculates the necessary leg force profiles in stance phase. The proposed method will work for any desired stance phase path profile consistent with the initial condition.\nCircular-arc trajectory in stance phase\nWe desire a symmetric circular-arc trajectory to be generated using the single force actuator of the leg as shown in Fig 2. The center and the radius of the circle are defined using the touch-down angle, leg length and velocity vector direction. The circle is tangent to the initial velocity vector and its center is located at the intersection of the vertical line passing through the foot contact point and the radius line perpendicular to the initial velocity vector. So the stance phase trajectory becomes symmetric with initial and final positions mirrored with respect to the vertical, and initial and final speeds equal to each other.\nUsing a polar coordinate system with the origin at foot contact point, the velocity of COM is (4) with r and θ defined in Fig 1. This equation is stated in Cartesian coordinates as (5)\nFig 3 shows the free body diagram of PMB on a circular-arc trajectory. In this figure point O is the foot contact point, point H is the hip point with point mass m located on, and point C is center of the circle. The slope ζ of the line CH at the touch-down moment is perpendicular to the stance initial velocity vector and is calculated as (6)\nTo calculate the necessary leg force we use a new polar coordinate system with the origin at C, radius of R and angle of θ1 as shown in Fig 3. The unit vectors of this coordinate system are denoted by and . The dynamic equations of PMB in the new coordinate system are (9) where Fr is the leg force and mg is the weight of the robot.\nAccording to Fig 3 the angle θ is (11)\nThis nonlinear second order differential equation with respect to θ1 is solved numerically with the initial condition of (13) to obtain θ1 and versus time. By substituting this solution into Eq (11) the necessary leg force profile is calculated numerically from Eq (10) to generate the circular-arc trajectory.\nPolynomial trajectory in stance phase\nAs a general framework we define the trajectory of the robot COM to be a polynomial of degree 2n. Since periodic running gaits of SLIP have symmetric stance trajectory, we consider symmetric polynomials with even degrees. The trajectory equation and its time derivatives are written as (14) (15) (16) in which parameters ak can be chosen or designed using COM initial position, velocity and acceleration for stance phase. The Newtonian equations of motion in this phase are written using Eq (2) as (17)\nThe second order nonlinear differential Eq (18) should be solved numerically with the initial condition of (19) to obtain x, , versus time. Then y versus time is calculated using Eq (14) and substituting those into the first equation of Eq (17) results in the necessary leg force profile to generate the desired polynomial trajectory by COM in stance phase as (20)\nVerification of the proposed control law\nTo verify the proposed control laws to generate arbitrary trajectories for PMB in stance phase, we apply the calculated force profile Fr and the weight to the point mass, with the initial conditions, to generate a trajectory. This trajectory should be identical to the primarily desired circular-arc or polynomial trajectory. To do so, we use equations of motion in polar coordinate system shown in Fig 1b as (21)\nEq (21) can be solved with known Fr and stance initial condition r0, θ0, , to obtain generated trajectories by the proposed control laws in stance phase.\nCost of transport\nThe cost of transport (COT) is an energy expenditure index that is used to evaluate biped waking and running efficiency. COT is defined as the energy exhausted by the motors per unit weight of the robot per unit distance traveled. To calculate the exhausted energy of motors, we use the absolute value of the product of the motor force and its displacement. (22) where W is the exhausted energy of the motors, mg is the total weight of the robot, L is the range of one running step on the ground, tCS is the time duration of one complete step, Fr is the leg actuator force, and is the leg length variation rate.\nA SLIP with a mass of 61.9 kg, a spring stiffness of 16 kN/m and a spring free length of 0.95 m is considered here to generate the running gait. These values are for the equivalent SLIP model for a typical biped robot named ATRIAS . Starting from an appropriate stance phase initial condition, the SLIP running dynamic Eq (3) can be solved to calculate stance and flight trajectories for one step, as well as the initial condition for stance phase of the next step. A SLIP running Poincare map is composed of dynamic equations of one complete step of running and maps the stance phase initial state vector of one step to the initial stance sate vector of the next step. For a given running velocity, a root finding problem can be solved to find the fixed point of this map which shows a stance phase initial condition that generates a periodic running gait. We solved this problem for the above-mentioned SLIP model with touch-down horizontal and vertical velocity components of Vx = 3 m/s and Vy = −0.5 m/s respectively. Its relevant fixed point becomes . Then dynamic Eq (3) are solved with this initial condition that generates a periodic running gait with the desired velocity. Fig 4a shows a SLIP trajectory in stance phase and flight phase. In this figure, thick and thin solid lines show stance and flight trajectories respectively, and dash-dot lines show leg angles in touch-down and take-off events. Fig 4b shows GRF components for this gait in which solid and dashed lines stand for horizontal and vertical components respectively. This figure depicts a single-hump profile for vertical GRF and a sinusoidal shaped profile for horizontal GRF. The COM trajectory and GRF components in Fig 4 are qualitatively similar to human and animal running dynamic specifications .\nA PMB model is assumed to have the same mass and free leg length as the SLIP model. Then the proposed gait planning methods are applied to this model to generate various running gaits with circular and polynomial stance trajectories. All gaits have the same initial stance phase as SLIP gait and all have touch-down velocity components of Vx = 3 m/s and Vy = −0.5 m/s. Symmetric trajectory results in a mirrored take-off condition with the state vector of and velocity components of Vx = 3 m/s and Vy = 0.5 m/s. So all generated gaits for PMB will have a fixed step length and fixed touch-down and take-off velocities.\nCircular-arc trajectory for PMB in stance phase\nUsing the desired initial condition we perform the procedure described in section 3.1 step by step to calculate the necessary leg force to generate a circular-arc trajectory in stance phase. The desired trajectory for stance phase is found using L, R and θ1(0) from Eqs (7), (8) and (13). The necessary force profile for the leg actuator is calculated from Eq (9) and then is substituted into the differential equations in Eq (21). These equations are solved with the desired initial condition to calculate the actual trajectory in stance phase. The desired and resulting COM trajectory are exactly the same (Fig 5). This verifies our gait planning method.\nThe COM trajectory for one complete running step is shown in Fig 6 in which the thick and thin solid lines stand for stance and flight trajectory respectively, and dash-dot lines show leg potion in touch-down and take-off events. It can be seen that the overall trajectory is similar to a SLIP trajectory. The resulting necessary force profile for the leg actuator is depicted in Fig 7 by a thin solid line and its parameters are shown in Table 1. The leg force starts at its maximum value of 1038 N and reaches its minimum value of 872 N in mid-stance. Note it has a different trend than the SLIP force profile which starts at zero and has maximum value of 1463 N in mid-stance. The maximum required leg force for a circular-arc trajectory is 29% less than with SILP, however it starts from its maximum value. Providing such a large force instantaneously just after touch-down is very difficult in practice.\nPolynomial trajectories for PMB in stance phase\nPolynomials with two parameters.\nIn this section various polynomial trajectories of form Eq (14) are generated for the stance phase of PMB steady running. The first challenge is how to define the polynomial coefficients using the stance phase initial conditions. The stance phase initial state vector defines the COM initial position [x0, y0]T and velocity . Substituting these points into Eqs (14) and (15) results in two algebraic linear equations with two unknown polynomial coefficients. So we consider even functions with only two coefficients: y = ax2 + b, y = ax4 + b, and y = ax6 + b. These paths with coefficients calculated from the stance phase initial state vector are shown in Fig 8. Using the procedure of Section 3.2 the required leg actuator force profile for each of these trajectories are calculated from Eq (20). Fig 7 and Table 1 show the resulting force profiles. All of them start and end at their maximum value, and reach their minimum value in mid-stance, similar to a circular-arc path. As the number of the degree of the polynomial increases, the maximum value of force grows and its minimum value decreases. The force profile corresponding to a degree-2 polynomial is very close to a circular trajectory force profile. The maximum force increases with polynomial degree. Because practical robots have motor torque restrictions, providing such large forces at the beginning of stance phase is not feasible.\nTuned degree-4 polynomial.\nTo make the leg force profile start and end at zero, one additional constraint is required in the stance phase initial condition. The acceleration of the body just before touch-down is , where g is the acceleration of gravity. To have the GRF start at zero, this acceleration constraint should be added to the stance phase initial condition. So in this case we have three points (position, velocity and acceleration) to be substituted into Eqs (14), (15) and (16). Therefore three coefficients of the path polynomial are required by these initial conditions, and we choose an even function of degree 4 for the polynomial y = ax4 + bx2 + c. The required leg force to make the robot undergo this trajectory during stance is calculated from Eq (20). Then the resulting force profile is substituted into differential Eq (21) to derive the actual stance trajectory. The desired and actual trajectories are verified to be coincident, similar to Fig 5. Fig 9 shows the PMB trajectory for one step of running using this tuned degree-4 polynomial. This trajectory is very similar to SLIP with the same parameters. The stance phase GRF components for both SLIP and PMB with a tuned degree-4 polynomial are shown in Fig 10. It is observed that these two models have almost the same horizontal GRF components but the vertical component of SLIP is sharper, i.e. the PMB model requires less maximum motor torque and less ground friction coefficient than SLIP. These are the main advantages of PMB with a tuned degree-4 polynomial compared to SLIP running. Note also that physical implementation SLIP-based robots, such as ATRIAS , have motors in series to the spring.\nThe COM trajectories for one step of running for the all previously generated gaits are shown in Fig 11. All of these gaits have the same touch-down and take-off configuration but different stance trajectories. The flight phases of all these gaits are coincident. In stance phase, it is noticeable that the circular arc and degree-2 polynomial trajectories are very close to each other and the tuned degree-4 polynomial is relatively close to the SLIP trajectory. Horizontal components of COM velocities for these trajectories during stance phase are shown in Fig 7. It is noticeable that again the velocity profiles and the time duration of the circular-arc and degree-2 polynomial trajectories are almost coincident, and the velocity profiles and time duration of SLIP model and degree-4 polynomial trajectories are also close to each other. All of these trajectories start and end with the same velocity of Vx = 3 m/s, but their velocities differ slightly during stance phase. Because the start and end points are fixed, this causes different stance times for these trajectories. The SLIP model has a horizontal velocity of 2.83 m/s in mid-stance and the degree-2 polynomial trajectory has 2.75 m/s. The stance phase duration is 0.200 s for the SLIP model, 0.201 s for the degree-4 trajectory, and 0.205 s for the degree-2 and circular-arc trajectories. All of the trajectories have a flight phase duration of 0.102 s and a complete step stride of 0.888 m. So the average running speed is 2.94 m/s for the SLIP model, 2.93 m/s for the degree-4 trajectory (0.3% less than SLIP), and 2.89 m/s for the degree-2 trajectory (1.7% less than SLIP). Note all of the generated gaits in this paper use the same initial and final position/velocity for stance phase, and different trajectories differ less than 2% in average velocity.\nThe corresponding leg force profiles for the various trajectories are shown in Fig 12. It is desirable for the leg actuator force in stance phase to have an initial and final value of zero, and a peak value as small as possible. By this criteria, the tuned degree-4 polynomial has the best force profile specifications among these trajectories, with 11% less maximum force than SLIP. The smallest maximum leg force is found with the degree-2 polynomial, and it is 30% less than SLIP. Although this gait needs less motor force, it has the disadvantage of starting and ending at its maximum value. The COTs of the generated gaits are compared in Table 1. Notice that SLIP is a passive model with a COT of zero. In order to gauge whether the PMB gaits are energy efficient, we compare them to a SLIP model where the leg spring has been replaced by a force actuator that needs to generate the same force profile and displacement i.e. a force-actuated SLIP. The resulting force-actuated SLIP has the best COT with a value of 0.2422, but the PMB gaits have very similar COTs (Table 1). The worst PMB COTs are found with the degree-2 polynomial and the circular-arc trajectories, both 1.7% higher than force-actuated SLIP. The tuned degree-4 polynomial PMB has a COT only 1.3% higher.\nOptimized degree 6 polynomial.\nWe conclude that the PMB tuned degree-4 polynomial trajectory meets the main requirements of biped running. In an effort to discover more about optimal gaits, we next use an even function of degree 6 polynomial y = ax6 + bx4 + cx2 + d, where the coefficient a is a free parameter that satisfies the three initial conditions (similar to the tuned degree-4 polynomial). The relevant trajectories with coefficient a from -30 to 10 are shown in Fig 13, which illustrates that the leg length shortens with increasing a. The corresponding leg force profiles are shown in Fig 14, which depicts single-hump profiles for a > −7.22 and double-hump profiles for a < −7.22. (Note the case a = 0 in Fig 14 is identical to the tuned degree-4 polynomial in the previous section). This is an interesting result because a single-hump force profile is known as a characteristics of bipedal running gaits, while a double hump is characteristic of walking [15,16,25]. The double-hump force profile for a running gait is a new result to the best of our knowledge. It is likely that one could capture running gaits with triple and quadruple-hump force profiles by choosing higher-order polynomial trajectories. We claim that a single-hump force profile is not a characteristics of bipedal running gaits (at least in the field of robotics). Although all observed biologic running gaits demonstrate single-hump force profiles, either single or double-hump profiles can be chosen for the running gaits of robots according to engineering requirements. One important restriction for the running gaits of robots is the maximum torque of the motors. To overcome this restriction we need gaits with less maximum leg force. It can be observed in Fig 14 that there is an optimum value for the coefficient a that minimizes maximum leg force, resulting in a double-hump profile. The variation of maximum leg force with respect to a is shown in Fig 15, which shows that the optimum value of the free parameter is a = −12.24. The leg force profile corresponding to the optimal value of coefficient a is shown in Fig 14 by a dash-dot line.\nThe important specifications of the force profiles of all previously mentioned stance trajectories are summarized in Table 1. The row for the degree-6 polynomial in this table uses the optimal value a = −12.24 and for mid-stance leg force we use the maximum leg force in the double-hump profile. Notice that stance times differ a bit for the various trajectories because we constrained only stance starting velocities, ending velocities, and its path profile (not average running speed). These differences are not significant and do not cause any problems to our investigation.\nEffects of Stance Initial Condition on Running Efficiency\nWe defined the stance phase state vector as . Equivalently the velocity can be defined by Vx, Vy, where the vertical velocity can be written as Vy = Vx tan β according to Fig 16, β is the angle of velocity vector V with respect to the horizontal, and θ is the leg angle with respect to the vertical. So instead we can use [r, θ, Vx, β] as the stance phase state vector and [r0, θ0, Vx0, β0] as the stance initial condition. In this section we examine the effects of attack angle θ0 and velocity angle β0 on the efficiency of the running of a biped robot with free leg length of r0 and touch-down speed of Vx0. Thus r0, Vx0 are assumed to be constant with values of 0.95m and 3m/s respectively.\nBecause the tuned degree-4 polynomial trajectory includes the necessary biped running dynamics and since we aim to investigate trends of gait specifications, we choose the tuned degree-4 polynomial to generate gaits in this section. For each initial condition [r0, θ0, Vx0, β0] there is a unique tuned degree-4 polynomial. Parameters θ0, β0 are varied from 1° to 34° to generate feasible running gaits. Using the proposed control strategy, the stance trajectory is uniquely defined for each initial condition. The COT and the maximum leg force are calculated in these cases, shown in Figs 17 and 18. It turns out that the COT increases with both θ0 and β0, and it approaches zero when both θ0 and β0 approach zero. Also it can be seen that maximum leg force decreases with θ0 and increases with β0.\nOptimal values of stance initial condition within the intervals are summarized in Table 2. The best COT, with value 0.0176, is obtained by the smallest attack angle and velocity angle (θ0 = 1°, β0 = 1°), but this produces a relatively large leg force Fr,max = 1789.8 N. The smallest maximum leg force is obtained by the smallest velocity angle β0 = 1° and the largest attack angle θ0 = 34°, but it results in a COT = 0.346, which is a large value relative to the other gaits shown in Table 1. To find an overall optimum gait considering the trade-off between COT and maximum leg force, we define a normalized index as (23) which is normalized relative to the COT and Fr,max values of the tuned degree-4 polynomial trajectory gait. Minimizing this normalized index generates a gait with θ0 = 4°, β0 = 1 that results in COT = 0.0440 and Fr,max = 1228.2 N. Profiles of leg force components Fx, Fy for the gaits with minimum COT, Fr,max and NI are shown in Fig 19. It is worth noticing that all these gaits have the same horizontal velocity but considerably different time duration and step length. This implies that shorter gaits will need a higher frequency of running steps to travel the same horizontal distance in the same amount of time.\nHere we put only the normalized sum of COT and Fr,max as the objective function to obtain an optimal gait. However, humans, animals and robots have some more constraints which should be taken into account when choosing an appropriate gait. For example choosing a relatively small attack angle θ0 = 4° causes an optimal COT and Fr,max, but this requires a high frequency of feet switching that would cause muscle fatigue in humans/animals and challenges in robots due to motor response-time restrictions. Thus choosing a larger attack angle makes more physical sense.\nChoosing velocity angle β0 as small as possible is beneficial in minimizing both COT and Fr,max. This is convenient because it has been observed that COM travels on an (almost) horizontal line during high-speed, high-efficiency running in both humans and animals.\nA point mass biped (PMB) model provided the basis for generating arbitrary symmetric trajectories in the stance phase of steady running. To show the generality of the method, a circular-arc trajectory and polynomials of various degrees (all satisfying the initial stance conditions) constituted desired trajectories in stance. The algorithm calculated the required force profile for the leg actuator for each trajectory. We found that paths from polynomials with only two parameters (satisfying initial position and velocity) do not start and end with zero force, which is not desirable. To overcome this problem we added the stance phase initial acceleration to the initial condition, then considered paths with three and four parameters. A degree-4 polynomial with three parameters resulted in a path and force profile very similar to those from a SLIP model, with nearly-equal COT and a maximum leg force 11% less. For a degree-6 polynomial with four parameters, optimizing the maximum leg force resulted in a gait with maximum leg force of 25% less than SLIP. The degree-6 polynomial trajectory can generate biped running gaits with either single-hump or double-hump GRF (previously double-hump profiles was counted as a characteristics of walking ). It is worth mentioning that for a defined touch-down velocity, a SLIP model needs a unique attack angle to generate a periodic running gait. However, PMB can generate periodic running gaits with arbitrary touch-down velocities and attack angles (within reasonable limits). We then investigated the effects of attack angle and velocity angle on running efficiency. Choosing the velocity angle as small as possible reduced both COT and maximum leg force. Larger attack angles increased COT and reduced maximum leg force, so there is an optimum value. Using PMB instead of SLIP as a template for multibody biped robots offers some practical advantages: a PMB trajectory can be optimized to overcome real-world limitations such as maximum motor torque, ground coefficient of friction, etc.\nWe generated symmetric trajectories for the stance phase in this work. Because this was analytic, exact trajectory planning did not deal with stability issues. Implementing these open-loop gaits on consecutive running steps of an underactuated robot will generate periodic unstable gaits. Designing controllers to stabilize these planned underactuated gaits (for example using Poincare map control  or energy level control ) defines future research work. Also, in future work asymmetric trajectories can be investigated in order to reject disturbances in the stance initial condition for steady running, transient running gaits, or running on stairs. Furthermore, this method of gait planning can be applied to 3D PMB and biped robot models with higher degrees of freedom.\nThe authors would like to thank Dr. Mohammad-Reza S. 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{"text": "How to Calculate the Direct Materials Ending Inventory\nDirect materials are the supplies you use to manufacture your inventory: wood for cabinets, steel for girders or wool for coats. Accountants distinguish direct materials from indirect materials, which you use without incorporating them into products. For example, any oil you use to lubricate your factory machinery and any replacement parts you install would be indirect materials. Indirect and direct materials are collectively known as raw materials. When an accounting period ends, you need to calculate your raw materials inventory.\nThe direct materials inventory for the end of the period equals the beginning inventory, plus purchases, less any direct materials you used up.\nAccounting for Direct Materials\nSuppose it's time to calculate the direct materials inventory for the previous quarter. You use the same formula for your calculations as you do for figuring the ending inventory of sales stock. Add the beginning materials inventory to the amounts purchased during the quarter. Subtract any materials you used. For example, say you start the quarter with three tons of steel and buy another ton partway through. You use up two tons manufacturing girders. That leaves you with an ending inventory of two tons of direct materials.\nIf your factory wasted some of the material – a hundredweight of steel scrap, another hundredweight discarded because it was defective, for instance – you still count those amounts as direct materials used in the quarter.\nReport on the Balance Sheet\nYou report the direct materials inventory on the balance sheet for the quarter. The balance sheet combines direct and indirect materials as one entry: raw materials. You add the raw materials to finished goods and work in process for the total inventory. Work in process covers raw materials that have been partially converted to finished goods.\nYou may discover some of your raw materials have become so degraded that you can't use them. As part of your ending inventory calculation, subtract the value of unusable material from raw materials, and credit it to the cost of goods sold.\nPlanned Ending Inventory\nThe ending inventory for one accounting period becomes the starting point for the next period. Planning how much of a direct materials inventory you want on hand protects you against running short and having to stop manufacturing.\nSuppose your company sells a line of glass ornaments. Each ornament uses 0.2 pounds of glass. You plan to manufacture 1,000 ornaments in the next quarter, which requires 200 pounds of glass. You started the current quarter with 300 pounds and expect to use 150 pounds. You'll need to buy 50 pounds of glass to have 200 pounds in the ending inventory. That glass will then be ready for use in the next quarter.\nFraser Sherman has written about every aspect of business: how to start one, how to keep one in the black, the best business structure, the details of financial statements. He's also run a couple of small businesses of his own. He lives in Durham NC with his awesome wife and two wonderful dogs.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII\nIn chapter eight, titled \"The Road Back Home,\" Miller discusses some of the implications of the findings of science on a religious person's faith in God. Or, to put it another way, he goes into a theological discussion of what kind of God can be seen as compatible with the findings of modern science. In short, his answer is that the findings of modern science do not at all contradict the traditional God of the western monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). This chapter seems to be a catch-all chapter for discussing some of the religious objections to evolution.\nFirst, he lays out three foundational beliefs about God shared by all three western monotheistic religions. These are: 1) the primacy of God in the universe, 2) we exist as the direct result of God's will, and 3) God has revealed himself to us.\nMiller then walks the reader through some of the findings of modern science to demonstrate that science does not contradict these core beliefs of theists. He begins with the scientific findings that the universe did in fact have a beginning. If the universe had no beginning, then perhaps the view of God as creator would become untenable. Yet, the universe did have a beginning in the so-called big bang, and science has discovered when it was.\nNext, Miller discusses what has been called the anthropic principle. In short, the anthropic principle states that the universe, and specifically a few constants (constant physical forces) in the universe: gravity, strong nuclear force, and electromagnetism, for example, make possible the development of life. If any one of these constants were just slightly higher or lower, then life would not be possible. Miller, quoting Stephen Hawking, writes: \"'If the rate of expansion one second after the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size.' Conversely, if g were smaller, the dust from the big bang would just have continued to expand, never coalescing into galaxies, stars, planets, or us\" (227-228).\nMiller notes that these constants by no means prove the existence of God, they also speak to how wonderfully hospitable this universe is to life, such that even strong atheists, such as Daniel Dennet note the danger of the anthropic principle. Miller quotes Dennet as follows:\nBelievers in any of the proposed strong versions of the Anthropic Principle think they can deduce something wonderful and surprising from the fact the we conscious observers are here--for instance, that in some sense the universe exists for us, or that perhaps we exist so that the universe as a whole can exist, ore even that God created the universe the way He did so that we would be possible (228).The next issue that Miller tackles is the notion of luck or chance. Many religionists object to evolution on the ground that, they say, God would not have left creation to chance, as evolution holds. Yes, Miller concedes, evolution does rely on chance, especially in the appearance of mutations. Yet, for him, the existence of chance in no way nullifies the existence of God. Miller compares evolutionary chance to historical chance. If chance can play a part in history, determining the rise and fall of human empires and the like, then of course it can play a part in evolution. Neither discounts the existence of God. Moreover, without the element of chance, there can be no free will, no free creatures, and no true love of God.\nMiller moves on to discussing the role of God in a self-sufficient universe as described by modern science. First of all, Miller does not discount miracles. He claims no philosophical worldview that would deny the possibility of miracles. That said, he says that natural phenomena have natural, scientific explanations. Miller also claims that God can be seen at work through natural, scientific phenomena. For example, he explains that the very existence of the universe cannot be explained through science alone. God, according to Miller is responsible for the existence of the universe.\nIn short sections, Miller refutes the idea that God would not have taken so long to get to his crowning achievement, humans; and the idea that evolution is too cruel to be the process by which humans were created. His refutation of the first is simply that God is patient and not bound by time as humans are. His answer to the second is twofold. First, cruelty is relative and nature can be seen as cruel, or beautiful. Second, the real surprise in life is not that nature can be cruel, but that something like altruism exists at all.\nIn the end, I found this the weakest chapter in the book so far. There are some great insights in this chapter, but as a whole, the organization was a little weak and slipshod. Some of Miller's generalizations about religion were not nuanced enough. In the end though, Miller does present plausible reasons why evolution need not be a threat to traditional belief in God.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Until now, all interpretation of the scriptures has made the natural assumption that it was written totally from the viewpoint and imagery of folks who lived in the late Bronze Age. This is largely true but for those parts that were inherited and transcribed into the overall compendium of scriptures. Meanwhile, we have discovered that by the single expedient of changing viewpoint, the chapters on Noah present us with a much more modern and technical interpretation.\nI was hesitant to tackle Noah, because I was perhaps unsure if it was relevant to my principal thesis surrounding the Pleistocene Nonconformity. It was not only relevant but an eyewitness accounting of the partial evacuation of Earth before the nonconformity but also a short history of the reestablishment of the human presence from one such effort’s account. It not only fit as a glove, but the intact word usage fitted that of transportation via a magnetic exclusion vessel and clearly had little to do with seamanship. This ended an interpretation problem I have always had with the text, even as a child.\nSo we are now starting with an entirely different set of assumptions. We presumed the oldest texts are derived from the times of Noah’s settlement establishment around 13000 years ago. These texts were written with the viewpoint of advanced technology and a space based human diaspora supporting the resettlement of Earth with surface prepared humanity after the displacement of the crust. In short, they had the capacity to prepare a set of initial texts that both reflected modern understandings yet was still understandable by a readership lacking those insights.\nWe have already seen how a description of the Ark morphed into a wooden boat but retained a grasp of size and shape and the ability to lift. This happened in a world in which metal work had shrunk to banging bronze and brittle iron so this is unsurprising.\nLet us now walk through Genesis to see if there are any other insights to be suggested. This may also inspire you to see things not seen yet.\n1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.\nFirstly, what do we mean by earth? The concept of planet does not show up in other creation myths, yet here we find it easily assumed if one does not ask this question. This makes good sense if you understand space and planets. What does it mean if you do not?\nThis act of creation also accepts my conjecture of particle creation between bounded curvature and unbounded curvature. A snap of the fingers and our universe emerges.\n2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.\nIf we substitute unorganized particles for the word ‘earth’ then the first phrase makes sense. An even better reading of the last sentence and this sentence is to substitute the word ‘matter’. Now we have the oddity of the words surface and deep. It is a visual image into which we introduce the Spirit or presence of the presumed creator. We do not introduce a material ‘God’. The oddity of the image of water is introduced as a visual metaphor.\nThis is pretty good. The idea of creation induced a universe of particles or matter. This conforms exactly to my own conjectures. The presence of God is introduced right at the beginning and described as a spirit independent of matter and is given the task of creation, neatly circumventing of who is first with a circular argument. Welcome to theology.\n3 And God said, \"Let there be light,\" and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light \"day,\" and the darkness he called \"night.\" And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.\nOf course, the next step in the evolving universe is the massing of matter leading to the ignition of stars. Naming lit and shadow day and night is fine and also reflects a limited language and little need to explain orbits.\n6 And God said, \"Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.\" 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse \"sky.\" And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.\nThe universe has been created and now exists. We are sitting on a planet. We are describing the sky above and water at our feet and the fact the water also pours from the sky. Thus we call upon God to separate the waters below and above.\n9 And God said, \"Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.\" And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground \"land,\" and the gathered waters he called \"seas.\" And God saw that it was good.\nTaking the analogy that one step further we do the obvious and introduce dry land. There is no concept of gravity or a concept of the creation of land as part of the creation process, but it is not particularly necessary.\n11 Then God said, \"Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.\" And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.\nAgain, an actual explanation of the formation of life is not necessary for this audience. It is enough to know that the land will be covered with plant life. It also does not defy common sense when the reality was just the opposite. By the way there is no reason to think that the order of creation was conserved from the original text. We are reading common sense from the Bronze Age where the option existed to re order the verses to have them fit appearances.\n14 And God said, \"Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.\" And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.\nIt is time to explain the star filled heavens, so it never needs further discussion. We are sitting on land, surrounded by sky and water and are lit with stars and moon at night. We are almost there. Except why have we not named any stars after Uncle Joe or called them gods? Everyone else did just that. In fact, this reads as a text written by moderns and not by shamans.\nIn fact, once creation is begun, God acts like a government agent and most likely was in view of our conjecture.\n20 And God said, \"Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.\" 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, \"Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.\" 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.\nWe can finally let in all other life forms starting with the seas which is fine, but we also throw in the birds to get them out of the way. This is called poetic license.\n24 And God said, \"Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.\" And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.\nAnd on we go to the land animals, including the domesticated stock surrounding them. Again we are slapping paint on the canvass as efficiently as possible.\n26 Then God said, \"Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.\"\nAs a last step humanity is created.\n27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.\n28 God blessed them and said to them, \"Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.\"\n29 Then God said, \"I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.\" And it was so.\nMan is given the explicit task of taming all this. Why did this have to be said at all? Was this not a natural assumption? Yet a group of new settlers could be told this as they began to take charge. God is welcoming them to their new world.\n31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.\nHere we are with a few short verses, with a wonderfully modern explanation of the establishment of man’s place on earth. There are no sub gods or wars and the phraseology would do good service to describe out own understanding of the evolution of life and our cosmos though a little jumbled. God appears as the colonizer in chief and is introduced as a spirit at the beginning to initiate a theological interpretation instead of a real event.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In the campus area, access to the opioid overdose-reversal drug, naloxone, has increased with the passing of House Bill 4, but Ohio State is lagging behind in the effort to make available the life-saving drug.\nAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adults ages 18-25 years old are at the highest risk for heroin addiction. Between 2011 and 2013, heroin use was seen in 7.3 people per 1,000 people, a 109 percent increase from their measure in 2002-2004, which listed 3.5 people per 1,000 people having used heroin.\nThe bill, which passed last summer, “takes further strides in curtailing Ohio’s opioid epidemic,” according to a House release.\n“This legislation will save lives in the State of Ohio, and make this life-saving medication more widely available,” Ohio Rep. Robert Sprague, a primary sponsor of the bill, said in the release.\nPharmacies across the state have already started selling the drug without a prescription, but the Office of Student Life Student Health Services have not yet established the protocols for availability.\n“Each pharmacy must create their own protocol for dispensing the medication, and Student Life Student Health Services will develop it as part of an overall medication treatment program for individuals with a diagnosis of substance abuse disorder,” said Dave Isaacs, spokesman for the Office of Student Life, in an emailed statement.\nWalgreens and CVS announced in respective press releases in February that both chains had made the drug available over the counter in Ohio.\nKen Hale, associate director of the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Drug Misuse Prevention and Recovery, said the misuse of prescription opioids, like the painkillers Vicodin and Oxycodone, are directly linked to heroin use. The CDC says that addiction to opioid painkillers makes someone 40 times more likely to use heroin.\n“We know that the heroin epidemic we have in the U.S. is growing. House Bill 4 is a great step,” Hale said.\nHale said he hopes to see the university establish a protocol for dispensing the drug without a prescription within a year. For now, if students want to get the drug because they or someone they know has an opioid substance-abuse problem, they can make an appointment at the student health center to get a prescription or go to one of the pharmacies located off campus.\n“We have created the perfect storm,” Hale said. “Drugs are part of our culture, we have easy access to medications, and we have lots of misconceptions about using these drugs.”\nIn an effort to reduce opioid-related deaths and addiction, the CDC’s website offers information about opioids.\nThe student pharmacy at OSU is having a drug takeback day in April in an effort to get dangerous drugs out of the supply chain, Hale said. Students are encouraged to bring their unfinished prescriptions so that they can be properly disposed.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The making of hand planes for woodworking.\n|Status||Critically endangered (see ‘Other information’ for further details)|\n|Craft category||Wood; Metal|\n|Historic area of significance|\n|Area currently practised|\n|Origin in the UK||17th century|\n|Current no. of professionals (main income)||6-10 (see ‘Other information’ for further details)|\n|Current no. of professionals (sideline to main income)\n|Current no. of trainees||1|\n|Current total no. serious amateur makers\n|Current total no. of leisure makers\n|Minimum no. of craftspeople required|\nHistorically, tradesmen would purchase irons from a blacksmith and fashion their own bodies. The first documented professional maker of wooden planes was reportedly Thomas Granford in the late-seventeenth century.\nTimber is carefully selected for grain direction and seasoning. It is dimensioned and marked out. The mortise is then chopped out and detailed using traditional plane makers tools, and a wedge is cut and made to fit the mortise. The cutting iron is made from steel, and the then the iron and wedge are fitted to the body so they are a perfect match. Depending on the type of plane there may be a handle or additional fences added. The plane is then tested and chamfered and details.\nIn terms of making individual or very small batches, wooden planes are typically easier and quicker to produce than infill planes, and as such are priced accordingly. Both can be made either using only hand tools or with a mixture of machine tools and hand tools, but it is more advantageous to use engineering machinery for infill planes because of the resistive nature of metal. Industrial planemaking on a larger scale is carried out by casting the body from iron or bronze and subsequent machining operations before a final assembly of all machined components. Very little handwork is involved in this scale.\nSome wooden hand planes are made on machinery by splitting the body down into individual components, forming various geometry that make up the planes function before gluing the body back together into a single piece. The better quality wooden hand planes have their internal geometry morticed out from a single solid block using chisels and specialist plane makers edge tools called ‘floats’. This is superior because their inherent strength is not dependant on glue.\nInfill planes are called so because of their construction. A metal shell is formed from thin steel, brass or bronze before being ‘infilled’ with an exotic wood, which supports the blade and forms the ergonomics of the tool. These metal plates are joined to one another via dovetails, which are cut either by hand or more typically on the milling machine. When the two sides are jointed to the sole (bottom) the entire shell is permanently fixed by peening the dovetails, a type of cold forging. The wooden infills are held in place by rivets. This method is superior to casting for longevity because if done correctly, hardly any distortion will occur in the shell, whereas a cast body will invariably warp as it seasons over a century or so.\nBlade making and heat treating\nIssues affecting the viability of the craft\nBusiness issues: There are lots of issues which affect all small businesses, such as the inability to buy in bulk, and new legislation regarding pensions for all employees.\nMarket issues: Demand for traditional handmade tools is very limited in the UK.\nMarket issues: There is definitely a market for high quality hand-made tools. Woodwork is a favoured past-time for people of high net worth with stressful jobs, and there are only half a dozen or so people worldwide making super high end infill style planes.\nMarket issues: The new, bespoke and high-end handtool market is growing rapidly, particularly in the USA where there are many makers. We have also noticed a decline in the demand for high end vintage/antique hand planes in favour of new ones. This is great but If this trend takes a dive, demand will fall too and some of the makers will fold as a result.\nTraining issues: There is no structured learning for the craft in any one place. The internet is the best resource but it takes many years of research and practice to properly learn the craft. It depends on what Is being made too on how varied the skill set needs to be – making a handmade wooden plane is completely different from making a handmade infill plane, as is making a cast production plane etc. In reality, every maker is self-trained, or has previous relatable experience that can be utilised.\nMarket issues: Plane making isn’t very well paid. Bespoke toolmakers agree that they do it for the love of the craft, not the pay check. Customers don’t appreciate the sheer number of hours of incredibly skilled labour that must go into production in order to have a product of that quality, and the investment in materials, machinery and running costs.\nCraftspeople currently known\nPhil Edwards (Philly planes) – traditional 18th-century wooden-bodied woodworking hand planes, using beech and Sheffield high carbon steel. Full time maker.\nOliver Sparks – custom wood and infill-type planes. Full time maker.\nDavid Barron – Krenov style wooden planes. No longer makers full time, although does some small batches.\nThomas Flinn & Co, Sheffield – there are three skilled craftspeople in the plane department, but this is geared to industrial, factory-style production.\n- Theo Cook (Robinson House Studio) – won the 2019 won Future Icons Award for accessories for his collection of hand planes.\nKarl Holtey and Bill Carter have recently given up the craft.\nStatus: 30 years ago plane making was nearing extinction but since then there has been more interest in the craft, helped by the internet and a resurgence in the interest of use for hand tools.\nNumber of trainees: Thomas Flinn & Co has one trainee, although they are not currently specialising in plane making.\nTotal number of craftspeople: There are two full-time plane makers plus three plane makers at Thomas Flinn & Co which took over the Clifton brand, although they are geared towards industrial factory production. There are also approximately another five or so hobby makers who are capable of practising the craft but do it occasionally for fun in their spare time rather than professionally, The internet has been great at encouraging hobby makers, and knowledge is gladly shared and published to help people make planes.\n- Goodman, W L, (1978) British Planemakers from 1700", "label": "No"}
{"text": "US 7883566 B2\nA method of using scrap rubber and other scrap materials, such as tires or parts or pieces of tires, to manufacture or melt steel and other metals in a furnace is disclosed. The scrap rubber may be used as a carbon source for the manufacture of steel and other metals, and may be used as an energy source to melt the scrap metal used to make the steel and other metals. The net benefit of this method includes reducing the amount of scrap rubber, such as tires, to be sent to a waste disposal facility or landfill, thereby improving the environment. In addition, by increasing the use of scrap rubber as a source of energy for steel or metal production, less energy is required from other sources.\n1. A method of manufacturing steel and other metals or metal alloys comprising the steps of:\napplying a quantity of metal into a furnace;\napplying energy to the quantity of metal in the furnace to commence the melting of the metal; and\napplying a quantity of an energy source to the melting metal in the furnace, wherein the quantity of an energy source does not include added metal,\nwherein the quantity of an energy source is used to melt the metal and is selected from the group consisting of whole tires, tire pieces, tire parts, tire sections, tire bales, tire powder, tire particles, tire chunks, waste hoses, carbon-based rubber materials, rubber pieces, rubber parts, rubber sections, rubber powder, rubber particles, rubber chunks, carbon-based waste materials and carbon-based scrap materials.\n2. A method of manufacturing steel and other metals or metal alloys comprising the steps of:\napplying a quantity of metal into a furnace;\napplying energy to the quantity of metal in the furnace to commence the melting of the metal;\ntransferring the melted metal in a ladle; and\napplying a quantity of an energy source to the ladle to further melt the metal or provide a source of carbon, wherein the quantity of an energy source is selected from the group consisting of whole tires, tire pieces, tire parts, tire sections, tire bales, tire powder, tire particles, tire chunks, waste hoses, carbon-based rubber materials, rubber pieces, rubber parts, rubber sections, rubber powder, rubber particles, rubber chunks, carbon-based waste materials, carbon-based pieces, and carbon-based scrap materials.\n3. The method of\n4. The method of\n5. The method of\n6. The method of\n7. The method of\n8. The method of\n9. The method of\n10. The method of\n11. The method of\n12. The method of\n13. The method of\n14. A method of manufacturing steel and other metals or metal alloys comprising the steps of:\napplying a quantity of metal into a furnace; and\nseparating a quantity of an energy source from a quantity of scrap metal or scrap steel, and\napplying the quantity of an energy source to the furnace to further melt the metal or provide a source of carbon, wherein the quantity of an energy source is selected from the group consisting of whole tires, tire pieces, tire parts, tire sections, tire bales, tire powder, tire particles, tire chunks, waste hoses, carbon-based rubber materials, rubber pieces, rubber parts, rubber sections, rubber powder, rubber particles, rubber chunks, carbon-based waste materials, carbon-based pieces, and carbon-based scrap materials.\n15. The method of\n16. The method of\n17. The method of\n18. The method of\n19. The method of\nThis application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 12/489,837, filed Jun. 23, 2009, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,674,317, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 12/165,002, filed Jun. 30, 2008, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,553,351, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/108,950, filed Apr. 19, 2005, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,393,379, which claims benefit to U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/563,701, filed Apr. 20, 2004.\nThe invention relates generally to the melting of scrap metal in a furnace using rubber tires, or parts of rubber tires, as an additional energy source. The invention also relates generally to the inclusion of rubber tires, or parts of rubber tires, as a carbon component for the making of steel and other metals.\nIt is known to use scrap tires, or parts of tires, as a supplemental fuel source and carbon source for steel melting in an electric arc furnace. The techniques and methods of such use are described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,322,544 and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/974,199, both of which are in the name of Franklin Leroy Stebbing and both of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. As described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,322,544, recycling scrap tires into steel or using them as a heat source improves the environment by removing the tires from landfills where they do not degrade but do create a fire hazard. Additionally, a single scrap tire, weighing about 20 pounds, has about the same heating value of coke, approximately 15,000 BTU's per pound, or approximately, 300,000 BTU's per tire.\nIn the manufacture of steel, scrap tires, which are so plentiful that they have a near zero cost, can be used as a substitute to coal or coke as the heating source, thereby significantly reducing the costs to manufacture the steel. As described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/974,199, the scrap tires can be bundled with scrap steel in a charging bucket and then the contents of the bucket placed in the furnace where the bundled tires and scrap steel are recycled into steel. The present invention described herein builds upon the known techniques and methods of using scrap tires or scrap rubber in the manufacture of steel, as set forth in U.S. Pat. No. 5,322,544 and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/974,199.\nThe present invention provides a system that permits the use of the many forms of tires and scrap rubber in the furnace. The invention allows the tires to be inserted into the furnace at a more precise and controlled rate, time, and location. To this end, for example, by inserting the tires at a slower rate into the furnace and separate from the scrap steel, as compared to batch feeding them or feeding them as tires and scrap steel bundles, it is possible to use larger quantities of tires at a specific controlled location and time. In an exemplary application, four tires or the equivalent of four tires may be added per ton of steel to be produced, as compared to two tires per ton ordinarily expected. A benefit with the increase in the amount of tires that can be used is the decrease in the number and amount of tires to be sent to a waste tire disposal facility or landfill, thereby improving the environment, and putting more scrap tires to beneficial use. In addition, by increasing the use of tires as a source of energy for steel or the metal production, less energy is required from other sources for such steel or metal production.\nThe invention further allows the use of tires in many forms, so that the tires can be more readily handled and stored before they are put into the furnace. Also, the present invention allows the tires to be put into the furnace separate from the scrap metal that is also to be put into the furnace. Unlike previous methods and techniques, the invention does not require the combining of the tires with the steel or scrap metal prior to the placement of the tires and scrap metal into the furnace. By eliminating the tires from the charge bucket, more available space for the scrap metal is created in the charge bucket. This can be especially valuable in some melt shops where headroom or other factors limit charge bucket size. Also, it is no longer necessary to transport the charging buckets to a location where the tires are stored, as is the case in many electric arc furnace shops.\nThe invention also allows the tires to be injected into the furnace at very elevated temperatures, thereby increasing the efficiency of the combustion of the tires. Moreover, the invention allows the tires to be injected into the furnace continuously and in a location most advantageous, such as while a foamy slag process is taking place. This allows the carbon monoxide that is being formed by the foamy slag process to convert to carbon dioxide with additional heat generation inside of the furnace—a result of the catalytic effect of the tires. With the invention, the tires may be placed or injected into the molten metal bath in the furnace so as to increase the carbon level in the liquid steel or metal to the desired level for the type and grade being produced.\nOther features and advantages of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon review of the following detailed description, claims and drawings in which like numerals are used to designate like features.\nBefore the embodiments of the invention are explained in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and the arrangement of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced or being carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology used herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting. The use of “including” and “comprising” and variations thereof is meant to encompass the items listed thereafter and equivalents thereof as well as additional items and equivalents thereof.\nThe invention is generally depicted in\nTo transport to and place the scrap steel or metal into the furnace 10, a number of devices and techniques are possible. The device might be a conventional charging bucket that is filled with scrap steel and is moved to a location above the furnace where the contents can be emptied into the furnace. The device may include a conveyor that is used to convey the scrap steel directly into the furnace in a continuous or semi-continuous mode. A similar device includes a shaft that is filled with scrap metal, and through gravity, the scrap metal moves toward and into the furnace. Typically, the previously mentioned conveyor and shaft have a dual purpose. The conveyor or shaft is enclosed and this enclosure is also used to provide a duct for the removal of the hot exhaust gases from the furnace operation. These hot gases come in contact with the steel or metal scrap to preheat the steel or metal scrap before it enters the furnace.\nThe aforementioned devices and techniques to transport and place the scrap steel or metal into the furnace 10 may also be used to transport and place the tires, or parts of tires, into the furnace 10 separately from the scrap steel or metal. That is, a conveyor may be used to transport and deposit the tires into the furnace 10, a charging bucket or box may be used to transport and charge the tires into the furnace, or a hopper may be located in proximity to the furnace 10 and used as a feeder to introduce the tires into the furnace 10.\nAlternatively, the opening 12 in the furnace 10 roof or sidewall may be used to permit any size tire or tire bales or pieces of tires to be inserted or dropped into the furnace interior and at any desired time and rate so as to maximize the benefits of the melting and refining processes taking place within the furnace 10. The opening 12 can also include a chute to direct the tires into a desired position within the furnace 10. When used with a conveyor fed furnace such as Consteel®, the tires can be dropped into the furnace and the heat from the tires will be drawn through the Consteel® conveyor enclosure by the exhaust fans, thereby providing additional heat to the scrap metal on the conveyor. The tires can be added in a location opposite the conveyor opening to maximize the travel distance from the point of deposit to the conveyor entrance thus maximizing residence time in the furnace for best heat transfer to the scrap in the furnace but also to allow the tires sufficient time to more fully combust before the heat is drawn into the Consteel® enclosure to preheat the scrap. When used with a shaft furnace such as that manufactured by Fuchs, the tires would likewise be deposited to fully maximize the combustion and to gain contact time with the scrap in the furnace. In some instances, it is advantageous to combust the tires alone, prior to adding the scrap steel. This heat energy is drawn through the scrap metal in the shaft or the feeding conveyor, thus preheating it before it is moved into the furnace proper.\nAs another exemplary alternative, a pneumatic powered gun 14 may be used to put the tires into the furnace 10. In this embodiment, the tires are in a granulated or powdered form or suitable pieces and are blown through a tube or pipe 16 and into the furnace 10. The gun 14 can use compressed air or other gases to propel the tires or tire pieces through the pipe 16. Alternatively, the gun 14 may simply be a tube for inserting the tires and tire pieces into the furnace 10. The gun could be used through the door to “cut in” scrap like a conventional carbon lance and also to provide the added benefit of CO conversion. In a similar fashion, tire pieces can be used to augment or replace carbon in the sidewall burners found in most electric arc furnaces to gain the advantages accruing from the use of tires in place of coal.\nThe gun 14 can also function as a burner, with the tires or tire pieces serving as the fuel and using air and/or oxygen for combustion. In this embodiment, the tires serve as an additional energy source for the furnace 10. The air can be conveyed by the same pipe as the tires or by a separate pipe 18, as would likely be the case if oxygen were used to promote or enhance the combustion of the tires.\nYet another alternative device or technique for inserting the tires into the furnace 10 includes the use of a thrower device to throw the desired amount of tires into the opening 12 in the furnace 10, or through a door or other suitable opening (not shown). The thrower device would be used as an alternative to the gun in the situations where the tire pieces were not suitable for gunning into the furnace because of the size or shape of the pieces, or if the tires contained wire or bead materials from the tires that were interfering with the operation of the gun. The thrower device may be configured to work in conjunction with the specific size and configuration of tires being used. That is, the thrower device may be configured to accommodate any size tire or combination of tire sizes, along with any size of tire particles, large or small.\nBy adding the tires separately to the furnace 10, the conventional technique of first combining the metal scrap and the tires, and then putting the combined metal scrap and tires into the furnace is eliminated, thus saving time, effort, and resources. Moreover, this allows the tires to be added separately and directly to the furnace 10 in controlled quantities and at the correct time and location inside of the furnace to obtain maximum benefit. Also more space is created in the charging buckets for additional scrap metal.\nMore particularly, the objective in operating the furnace is to add energy at the maximum rate possible without causing damage to the furnace, or wasting energy that cannot be absorbed by the scrap metal quickly enough. This is desirable because of the large energy losses that occur to the water cooled furnace walls and roof and also to the furnace fume exhaust duct, combustion chamber, and dust collector. The longer the time taken to bring the scrap to tapping temperature, and/or holding at this temperature, the greater the heat losses. Because of the heat lost through radiation, equipment water cooling, and exhaust gases, the amount of total heat lost is proportional to the time spent in heating the scrap to molten temperature and holding at this temperature before tapping. The higher the rate of heat input, the lower the heat lost to the surroundings because of the time factor. Through the modulated, controlled, insertion of tires to the furnace, separate from the scrap steel, the heat lost is better controlled.\nApart from the heat lost, the cost of energy is also a major consideration, with electricity the most expensive, followed by natural gas, coke, coal and finally scrap tires, which have a negative cost (because they provide a disposal fee for consuming them along with some gain in the scrap steel which they contain). By replacing the traditional heat sources, such as electricity, with scrap tires, significant cost savings can be achieved. More specifically, the cost of electricity is highest at the early stages of the melting cycle because this is the time when the maximum amount of energy can be transferred to the scrap because it is cold and can accept heat more readily and also because the electric arc is shielded by the scrap, reducing damage to the furnace walls and roof. There is a power company “demand charge” for this rapidly consumed electrical energy—a charge that is established by the maximum rate of electrical power used during perhaps a fifteen-minute period in perhaps a twelve-month cycle. Different power companies have differing schedules. With the technique of applying the tires to the furnace separately from the scrap steel, this is also the time when the energy from the scrap tires can be used to reduce the demand charges and replace all or part of the electrical energy consumed during the initial and early stages of the melting cycle, while the scrap is still solid and relatively cold and able to accept the energy from the tire flames as it passes through the scrap. Thus, the use of a modulated, controlled, throttled flow of energy from the tires to replace electricity, (as well as gas, coke or coal) can result in significant cost savings.\nTire energy can be the major source of energy in the early stages of the heating cycle, with natural gas consumption then in a reduced rate and electricity gradually increased as the cycle progress but at a diminished rate at the beginning stages of the heat to save on demand charges. As the scrap metal is turned to molten metal the amount of energy that can be added to the metal bath from sources other than electricity is decreased because the liquid bath surface tends to reflect energy rather than absorb it. Also the bath is protected and covered by the insulating effects of the foamy slag. The solid tire parts can be dropped into or added to the bath, however, increasing carbon content or reacted with oxygen for additional energy in the bath.\nThe trend in this industry is to reduce electrical energy by adding more chemical energy in the form of natural gas burners and coal because it is cheaper. There are differences in the equipment being used and the melting practices followed, so the results vary from mill to mill. It is clear however, that low cost chemical energy is a very desirable commodity. It should therefore be appreciated that scrap tires clearly supply this need. The rate of energy added to the furnace by electricity, natural gas or coal injection is controlled. The rate of tire energy input needs to be controlled for the same reasons. This further allows the rate of energy release to be reduced so that the tires are not burning at a less controlled rate and consumed before the steel scrap can capture the available heat energy, as can occur if the tires are bundled with the scrap steel prior to insertion into the furnace.\nAlso, in another aspect of the invention, with the use of tires separate from the scrap steel, the other forms of energy being applied to the furnace may be reduced or regulated in a more precise and controlled manner. As indicated above, these energy inputs are usually natural gas or fuel oil with combustion air or oxygen, electricity, coal or coke. These other energy inputs into the furnace can be more precisely adjusted to correspond to the rate of tire energy input since the tire energy can now be controlled at a desired rate, as opposed to the known techniques of batch feeding the tires with scrap steel. In this invention, the tire energy is the primary source with the other energies filling the gaps not taken care of by tire energy.\nBecause the tires enhance the conversion of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide, the tires can be injected into the furnace slag area in a location where this conversion can be most beneficial. The slag having been made from the addition of lime and/or other slag forming materials having the desired flux and foaming properties. The tire injection location is chosen so that the carbon monoxide released from the foamy slag can be converted to carbon dioxide before it enters, or while it is moving through the scrap metal. The carbon monoxide bubbles are formed in the slag by the use of a lance that injects carbon, usually coal particles, along with oxygen gas, directly or indirectly into the slag which is floating on the molten steel puddle in the bottom of the furnace vessel. The foamed slag is in contact with, and partially envelopes and engulfs the steel scrap above it. The carbon monoxide bubbles continually burst and this gas flows through the scrap metal and finally is exhausted out through an exhaust port, usually a hole the furnace roof, often referred to as a “fourth hole.” A large percentage of the available energy in this gas is lost because it exits the furnace as CO rather than converting to CO2. In one method of the invention, the tires or tire pieces would be added to the coal mix during, or prior to, injecting into the slag, or the tires may be added independently of the coal mix. The added tires facilitate the conversion from CO to CO2. The ratio and timing may be adjusted to allow the slag to form CO and then convert to CO2 after the foam had done its job, releasing the conversion energy while it was passing through the scrap metal, thus heating the scrap metal. In another method, the tire or tire pieces would be injected at a location above the slag but low in the scrap layer so there would be sufficient mixing time for the tire fume to react the CO to CO2. While the tires or tire pieces are burning in the scrap metal zone in the furnace, the heat from this exothermic reaction has a chance to contact and transfer to the scrap as it passes through it, thereby improving the rate of melting of the scrap metal. In another method, the tires are used to replace substantially all of the coal for slag foaming. Thus saving the cost of the coal and assisting the CO conversion.\nSimilarly, the tires can be injected directly into the furnace while steel scrap is being fed by a shaft or conveyor system. The tires are burned in the furnace while the hot gases generated from the tire fire are withdrawn by the fume collection system. This hot exhaust is pulled through the enclosure surrounding the shaft or scrap conveyor, which causes it to be in close contact with the scrap metal. The hot gases will heat the metal as the gases move through the scrap in a counter-flow direction to the direction of travel for the scrap. This greatly enhances the purpose and value for having shaft or conveyor fed furnaces because the amount of available heat captured by them will be much greater. This also increases the efficiency of using tires because the contact time for the flames in these enclosures is even greater because the tires are gradually placed in the furnace so as to burn at a slower, controlled rate, giving the scrap metal more time to absorb the heat. This also allows any remnants of the CO to CO2 conversion to take place in the shaft or conveyor enclosure before it escapes.\nBy using tires in forms other than whole tires some of the more valuable components of the tires can be removed before the residue from the tires is used for furnace feed. For example, crumb rubber particles have value as raw material for other products. The crumb rubber and other materials can be removed from the tires first, before the residue is used as a carbon, fuel and scrap metal source for steel or metal manufacturing, thus, increasing the value of the scrap tires and helping to convert them from a waste material to valuable assets.\nAlso, when the rubber material is removed from the tires the remaining tire material has a higher scrap metal content, which can increase its value as a charge material for the furnace. Additionally, having a higher metal content can permit the tire pieces to be handled with a scrap-handling magnet—a device typically found in steel scrap handling facilities and melt shops.\nInjecting rubber from the tires directly into a hot furnace, separate from the scrap steel or metal, allows the rubber to be exposed to, and achieve a very high temperature almost instantaneously. This allows the rubber to be incinerated very rapidly with more complete combustion taking place inside of the furnace.\nAs stated above, the tires can be injected or placed directly into the metal bath so that the carbon from the tire is added directly to the metal. The tires provide a source of carbon, replacing coal or coke. The tires can be injected in controlled amounts so that the level of carbon in the bath can be more precisely adjusted according to the type or grade of steel being produced. This provides a more exact carbon level to be achieved in the finished product. The amount of tires that may be added may vary depending on the level of carbon required for the steel.\nIn summary, with various aspects of the present invention, the known step of combining the tires together with the metal scrap before introduction into the furnace is eliminated. The efficiency for the use of tires as an energy source is increased, since the energy is consumed gradually, instead of all at once with known batch-feeding techniques, and also the efficient use of the energy from the conversion of CO to CO2 is enhanced because the catalytic effect is not wasted in a rapid release from the furnace before it has time to act. A larger total quantity of tires can be converted to a useful function, greatly improving the environment. Total emissions from the process are improved on a more or less continuous basis. An emission “spike” is eliminated because of the more uniform application of the catalytic effect of the scrap tires. Also, other forms of energy now used in the furnaces can be reduced and replaced by scrap tire energy. With the principles and teachings of the invention, the production of many types of metal products including various steel alloys, iron alloys and the like can be improved.\nThe above described invention provides several advancements over the art in the use of tires, or parts of tires, as a fuel source for steel or other metal melting, and as a carbon component for the making of steel or other metals. First, the invention improves air emissions from steel melting. Second, the invention provides a way to convert additional waste materials, i.e., scrap tires or tire parts, to a valuable commodity. Third, the invention provides a method for increasing scrap tire consumption by the steel industry. Fourth, the invention eliminates the step of combining the scrap rubber from tires, or tire parts, with scrap metal prior to placing the scrap rubber in the furnace. Fifth, the invention provides a technique of injecting and placing the rubber into the furnace so that the rubber can be put into the furnace in the desired amounts, at the desired times, and in the best location. Sixth, the invention allows the use of the many forms of tires or scrap rubber, e.g., bales, pieces, crumbs, shredded pieces, and the like, as a feed for the furnace. Seventh, the invention allows the reduction of “electrical demand” charges and other electrical consumption charges. Eighth, the invention enhances the scrap preheating aspects of shaft and conveyor fed furnaces, such as Consteel® by increasing the energy for preheating as a result of burning the tires and/or increasing CO to CO2 conversion in the furnace or in the shaft or conveyor. Finally, the invention produces steel or other metals by injecting carbon directly into the liquid metal using scrap rubber as a carbon source for the steel whether the liquid metal is in the furnace or afterward when in the ladle. One skilled in the art will appreciate that the invention provides still other advancements over the art as it pertains to the use of tires, or parts of tires, as a fuel source for steel or other metal melting, and as a carbon component for the making of steel or other metals.\nVariations and modifications of the foregoing are within the scope of the present invention. It should be understood that the invention disclosed and defined herein extends to all alternative combinations of two or more of the individual features mentioned or evident from the text and/or drawings. All of these different combinations constitute various alternative aspects of the present invention. The embodiments described herein explain the best modes known for practicing the invention and will enable others skilled in the art to utilize the invention. The claims are to be construed to include alternative embodiments to the extent permitted by the prior art.\nVarious features of the invention are set forth in the following claims.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Docker image is an essential part of container infrastructure. It is an image that contains an application and all its required parts (libraries and other files).\nDocker image is usually created using a\nDockerfile contains commands to build the image, environment variables, command to run when the container starts, entry point, and many other items.\nDocker images are named using the following scheme\nregistry is omitted, the docker hub registry is used. An example of a docker image name is:\nBefore building your own docker image, it is strongly recommended to search the public registry for an existing image that contains the desired application, but also to check what is the timestamp of the last image, i.e. if someone is making new releases and bug fixes. For example, we can recommend\nbitnami images. There are some limitations to using external docker images on our infrastructure, see limitations.\nCreating your own Docker Image\nIf you find it necessary to create your own image, you will find a short guide below. For a complete guide, see official docker documentation. Knowledge of installing Linux applications and basics of Linux packaging systems is required.\nHere are the most common Dockerfile commands:\nFROM image– defines the image name to start your docker image from, e.g.\nRUN cmd– run command that changes the starting image, more than one\nRUNcommand can be used.\nCOPY localfile containerfile– copy local files to the docker image, you can use optional\n--chown=user:groupto change ownership during copying. Copying and changing ownership later using\nRUN chownis discouraged, as the resulting image will be twice as large.\nUSER uid– change the user to\nuid(or name), from this line all other commands will run as the specified user, if this command is not used, everything will be done as the\nrootuser. The last\nUSER uiddirective also specifies which user the container will run as by default.\nCMD command– run\ncommandas the default command when the container is started.\n- WORKDIR dir` – specifies current working directory, last working directory will be used as initial directory in a running container.\nExample for Dockerfile:\nFROM debian:buster RUN apt update -y && apt upgrade -y && apt install build-essential libssh-dev git -y RUN git clone https://gitlab.con/zvon/iobench && cd iobench && make && make install USER 1000 CMD /bin/bash -c \"tail -f /dev/null\"\n- Containers usually do not have a user created in\n/etc/passwd. In this case you will see the\nI have no nameprompt. Also in this case there is no\nhomedirectory which defaults to\n/, many applications fail here as\n/will not be writable. It is recommended to create a default user to run the container as. The name of the user is not important. The following command will create a group named\ngroupand a user named\nuserat the end of the command is not an error.\nRUN addgroup --gid 1000 group && \\ adduser --gid 1000 --uid 1000 --disable-password --gecos user user\n- The container defaults to the UTC timezone. If this is not desired, it should be set to the correct default, e.g.\nRUN echo 'Europe/Prague' > /etc/timezone\n- Packaging tools must not be interactive. For example, for `deb’ systems:\nRUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y curl\nDo not forget to add\n-yto most packaging tools.\n- Debian family systems usually install recommended packages by default, which is not desired here, disable it:\nRUN apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends curl\n- Keep the resulting image as small as possible. It is needed to clean up temporary files. For example, for\nRUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install curl && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*\nRUN conda install package && conda clean --all -f -y && rm -rf \"~/.cache\n**Cleaning must be done within a single `RUN’ command.\nRUN' command creates a new Docker image layer. It is recommended to merge related commands into a singleRUN` command, for example, install all required packages at once, not one at a time.\nFor Kubernetes, there is no need to use the `EXPOSE’ command to publish network ports. See Exposing Applications.\nchmodwill double the size of the change files in the docker file, i.e.\nchownon all files in the docker file will double the size of the docker file.\n- When chaining commands, always chain with\n&&and never with just\n;. If one of the commands fails, chaining with\n&&will stop the build of the whole image, which is usually what you want. Chaining with\n;can hide some failing commands and make it hard to debug why the image is not what it should be.\nBuilding Docker Image\nOnce the `Dockerfile’ is created, the docker image can be built. The following describes how to build a docker image manually. Manual building can be useful for debugging the build process.\nTo build a docker image locally, you need a machine running Linux with docker installed. To install docker, follow the instructions for your Linux distribution, usually\ndocker-ce is the right package. You may need to become a member of the\ndocker group to be able to use docker.\nDockerfile in a directory, e.g.\nmydocker, and run the following, replacing\nrepo/name:tag with the correct name and tag\ndocker build -t repo/name:tag mydocker\nIf the build was successful, the image is built locally and needs to be pushed to a registry. If you are not logged in to the registry, issue\ndocker login registry', replacing registry’ with the real registry name.\ndocker push repo/name:tag\nThe `repo/name:tag’ must be exactly the same as in the build case.\nAutomated build can be done using a CI/CD pipeline. The build is done using the runner component which is part of many github/gitlab installations. You can use gitlab.ics.muni.cz, see GitLab Containers how to do it. This gitlab also provides docker registry, so once built image can be stored here for use from Kubernetes. The registry is public or private depending on the project settings, see GitLab Containers.\nThe automated build can be slow, so it is not the best option for debugging the build process.\nRunning Docker Images\nIt can be useful to manually run the built image before running it on Kubernetes, for example to check that all files are in place, important directories are writable, and so on. Running it manually is fast and has no privilege restrictions. However, be careful about running unknown images on your machine. To run a docker image locally, you need a Linux machine with docker installed, see manual build above.\nRunning locally can also be useful for inspecting the image, for example, to get the\nUID of the running user if it is not known, as the\nUID may be needed for running in Kubernetes.\nFor testing purposes, you can run the Docker image using:\ndocker run -it --rm registry/name:tag command\nThis command will run the\nregistry/name:tag image and run the\ncommend inside it. You can add\n-u uid to run the image as user\nIf the image used has\nENTRYPOINT set, the\ncommand will not be executed, but will only be passed as an argument to the\nENTRYPOINT script. If you need to avoid execution, you can pass the\n--entrypoint /bin/bash option to\ndocker run. However, not all images have\n/bin/bash or even\n/bin/sh available. In such a case, you will need to rebuild the image and add/install\nctrl-d will kill the running Docker image. All changes inside the container will be lost unless you use\ndocker commit', see the [official docker documentation](https://docs.docker.com/develop/), in this case do not use the –rm’ option which automatically removes terminated images.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "If you have high blood pressure, the first thing you should do is to calm down and lie flat. Leave aside the task you were engaged in and slowly start taking deep breath. This stress reliving helps to bring down to certain extent. Drink water and come out of your house and walk at least 5 kms briskly. If you take 3 or 4 meals a day, take salt in only one meal. Again measure your blood pressure. You will be amazed to see that your blood pressure comes down drastically by 10mm of hg.\nYou can control high blood pressure upto 160/90mmHg at home without medication but beyond that you have to take medicine. As blood pressure improves with lifestyle changes medications can be withdrawn gradually. If you don’t want to take medicine incorporate active lifestyle.\nWorld wide approximately 40% of adults aged 25 and above had been diagnosed with hypertension. So friends wake up start leading active life. High blood pressure if not controlled is going to cause\n- Heart attack\n- Heart Failure\n- Vision loss\n- Kidney failure\nMany habits which lead to blood pressure is lack of activity, so many gadgets which keep us in one place for long hours, tendency to take cooked food from hotels instead of cooking ourself and stress. Nowadays children are also suffering from blood pressure. Children prefer to play online games rather than going to playground. So friends time has come to realise our mistake and act accordingly. We might avoid, delay or reduce the need of medication by doing lifestyle changes.\nFew lifestyle changes which we should follow are:\n- Loose extra pounds and watch your waistline. Blood pressure increases as weight increases. So try to shed pounds.\n- Exercise regularly Regular physical activity can lower your blood pressure by 5 to 8mm Hg. It’s important to be consistent if you really want to control your high blood pressure. Its upto you what you choose for your fitness. Yoga, walking, jogging, swimming, dancing anything you can include in your daily routine.\n- Eat a healthy diet DASH diet. You should incorporate diet rich in whole grains, fruits, vegetables and low fat dairy products and skimps on saturated fat and cholesterol can lower your blood pressure by 11mm Hg, Dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) is highly recommended by doctors. Friends it’s not easy to change our eating habits but we should try adopt a healthy diet.\nEat potassium rich food It helps our body to get rid of sodium and eases pressure on our blood vessels. For details, you can read my blog post here.\n- Reduce sodium in your diet Even small reduction in the sodium in your diet can improve your heart health and reduce your blood pressure by 5 to 6 mm Hg. We should try to limit sodium to 2.3 mg a day. To decrease sodium in your diet, consider these tips. Read food labels. If possible choose low sodium alternatives of the food. Eat fewer or no processed food. Don’t add extra salt.\n- Quit smoking Each cigarette you smoke increases your blood pressure. Quitting smoking can reduce your risk of heart disease and improve overall health.\n- Cut back on caffeine\n- Reduce stress Stress contribute to raise blood pressure. Try to analyse what causes stress in you. Few tips to de stress yourself:\n- Change your expectations Try to understand that there are something you can’t change or control so don’t overthink.\n- Focus on issues you can control If you are facing any issues at work place try talking to your boss or any issues with your spouse or kids talk to them to resolve it. Communication gap also creates stress between loved ones. So talk and resolve.\n- Avoid stress triggers Avoid people who cause you stress. Try to manage your time properly to avoid stress.\n- Practice gratitude Expressing gratitude to others can help reducing your stress.\n- Relaxation Spend 1 to 2 hours daily in doing meditation and breathing exercises. You will definitely going to feel good.\nNever try self medication. By doing this you are risking your life.\nMonitor your blood pressure at home regularly and visit your doctor.\nI have managed my blood pressure by following the above mentioned points.\nDo write the feedback and your feedback means a lot to me. Don’t forget to subscribe my blog, share or like it to motivate me. How you are managing your blood pressure?\n2 thoughts on “Manage high blood pressure in minutes at home”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The ‘68 Tlatelolco Massacre\nThe Tlatelolco Massacre that occurred just before Mexico City hosted the 1968 Olympic Games was part of the Mexican government's so-called “Dirty War.” The event helped to trigger new forms of political art and artistic expressionism in Mexico that vented the frustrations of the surviving generation. While there were some government efforts to reconcile what happened only decades later, the seemingly never-ending injustices in the following decades fomented distrust and mass migration by Mexicans seeking better lives in the U.S. and elsewhere.\nRoss Chambless: In 1968, just before Mexico was about to host the Summer Olympic Games, the country was also experiencing a growing and energetic new student movement. Young Mexicans, including workers, farmers, housewives, merchants, intellectuals, artists, and teachers were mobilizing and calling for political change and more accountability from their government and the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).\nStudents marching in 1968.\nRoss: On the evening of October 2, 1968, when a large group of students gathered in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco Plaza for a peaceful protest and march, it didn’t seem that unusual. This was just 10 days before the Olympic Games were scheduled to begin.\nOne of the students on the plaza that day was Fanny Blauer’s father, Fernando Alvarado Rosas.\nFanny Blauer: He was protesting with the students. He had already graduated and was a professor of English. He was doing his Master’s [degree] actually.\nFanny Blauer's father, Fernando Alvarado Rosas, with her mother in July 1968.\nRoss: It was around 6:50 PM that evening when the students reported seeing a light coming from a military helicopter in the sky.\nFanny: And soldiers are marching towards this big group of people, thousands of people. And when this light, like a firework, was dropped from the helicopter, the army started to shoot people.\nRoss: Chaos erupted among the thousands of unarmed students.\nFanny: People started to run, trying to figure out exactly what was happening. Everybody was rushing back and forth, didn’t know exactly where to go. People who were being captured. People falling down were being killed.\nRoss: Some soldiers were shooting from surrounding buildings and rooftops. An investigation later revealed that snipers with the Presidential Guard were even instructed to fire on the military forces in order to provoke them.\nFernando was among those students who were shot.\nGovernment footage of the '68 Tlatelolco Massacre.\nFanny: He was shot in the leg. But he didn’t notice he was shot until he saw blood. I remember him saying that the adrenaline of what was happening was so intense. And there was no electricity. And it was raining really hard, and he was wearing a long coat. He was laying on the floor when he saw blood. “What is this? Oh, it’s me?”\nRoss: Fanny says right at this moment, a man wearing a single white glove, grabbed him by the hair and pulled him down a flight of stairs.\nFanny: And he was swearing at my dad, saying you’re going to hell. At that point, they started to shoot. They were shooting everywhere. And he told my dad, stay here, I’m coming back. So, my dad of course, instead of waiting for this man, who was a spy… because there were policemen and soldiers and people dressed as civil people, but they were working for the government and they were identified by this white glove.\nRoss: Her father knocked on the door of a nearby apartment and a kind woman let him in.\nFanny: Within this apartment, there was a nurse and when she saw my father, she told him you are going to die, you are bleeding. So, she saved him by saying you are my husband and we went out for bread for our children… because this is happening in an apartment complex for children and families live! This is not an industrial area or a financial district. It’s in a neighborhood. People being killed in a neighborhood.\nThe military arrested thousands of people, and it's estimated 300 to 400 people were killed.\nRoss: This podcast is Nuevas Voces – Episode 17 – a podcast by Artes de Mexico en Utah. In this episode, we’re talking about the Tlatelolco massacre – or the massacre of student activists that occurred in Mexico City 10 days before the 1968 Olympics began. The event was considered part of the so-called “Dirty War” the Mexican Government waged against its own citizens for several decades, from about 1968 to 2000. It was a devastating time for Mexico. We’ll be talking about how the event is remembered or misremembered, and how it affected artistic expression and political art and protest by that surviving generation.\nOn that day, thousands of students were arrested, the final death toll is a mystery. While the earlier estimates were grossly under-counted by the government, some estimate hundreds of civilians lost their lives or were injured.\nThe government’s official account at the time was that the students — infiltrated by communist forces — had fired on the army first, and the soldiers had to fire back to defend themselves. Fanny’s father was one of the fortunate survivors of a massacre that the army attempted to cover up.\nFanny: The most horrible thing about this is that the next morning, the plaza was completely clean. It looked like nothing had happened…They were sweeping with water, right, cleaning the plaza, to make sure there was no evidence of blood or anything.\nMy dad, whenever he shared this story with us, ever since I was a little girl, he always told us to never share this story with anybody. For 20 years he was basically undercover because he was so afraid he would be killed.\nA memorial to the people who lost their lives in the Tlatelolco Massacre.\nRoss: But today, thankfully, the event is acknowledged and memorialized. But it wasn’t until 2001 after the PRI lost its 70-year reign on power and newly elected President Vicente Fox ordered the release of previously classified documents about the massacre released to the public.\nFanny: Now there’s a museum in Mexico City, close to this plaza. It includes everything that was found that night. There are pictures taken at the moment. There is a picture I remember of shoes, of people just running trying to save their lives.\nRoss: There is now quite a lot of literature, dramatic films, and documentaries about the Tlatelolco Massacre. Now we actually see the Mexican army’s own film footage of the massacre taken from a nearby rooftop.\nFanny: Famous Mexican writer, Helena Poniatowska wrote about this movement. Jose Luis Cuevas our \"La Ruptura - Cortina del Nopal\" creator, is believed to be one of the initiators of this movement because he was against the corrupt political party.\nMasacre en Tlatelolco, 2 De octubre 1968. Directed by Alan Tomlinson.\nRoss: One interesting issue that some social scholars point to regarding this event, and similar conflicts between the Mexican military and civilians today, is one of social class inequity and conflict.\nFanny: Remember, we’re talking about a new social class. Suddenly we have this new middle class, and people coming from rural areas. But the army in Mexico is mostly indigenous. They don’t come from the cities, they come from rural areas. Maybe it’s their only option to succeed. So, the army was very upset against this new middle class, still looking indigenous maybe, but still middle class. So, they didn’t mind killing their own people representing the new urban Mexicans.\nRoss: Here’s Jorge Rodríguez.\nJorge: In today’s day and age in Mexico, there is this a hierarchy of “low lives,” because the police are “low lives”, the military are also looked down upon. And like Fanny said, they are predominantly from rural areas, indigenous people, who don’t have access to a comprehensive education. Usually, the military is their only option for a stable income. Even today we have this huge divide.\nRoss: The Mexican Student Movement and the Tlatelolco massacre itself had an impact on artistic expression, specifically on Mexican political protest art. Oddly, the artistic designs of one American graphic artist, Lance Weiman, who ultimately created the logo and graphic designs for Mexico City’s ’68 Olympic Games, were co-opted by the student movement.\nFanny: He had never been in Mexico, and suddenly he was fascinated by the culture by visiting museums. I found it interesting how he developed his art based on ancient cultures. All the circles and continuation of geometric shapes. (learn more of his story here) So, there was suddenly a new movement of art that was used by the students after this massacre, to protest the government. It was the “bloody Olympics.”\nAdolfo Mexiac, Mexico 68, 1968, lithograph\nRoss: One visually gripping lithograph shows a student with his mouth bound with chains, along with the logo for the ’68 Olympics. Here’s Susan Vogel.\nSusan: This was created by one of the artists who was part of the Taller Gráfico Popular. But many of the artists from the Taller, like Pablo O’Higgins, were no longer producing political art, and certainly not political art that showed the current problems, because they were so close to the government. They were getting a very good deal through the government galleries. The government started art galleries and then they could choose the artwork that was in their favor. So, there were few artists who were still really speaking out against the atrocities happening during what’s now called the “Dirty War.”\nRoss: Another image that was produced after the massacre shows a white dove being stabbed by a bayonet.\nFanny: The Olympics in Mexico were called the Los Juegos de la Paz, the Games of Peace. And then they have the icon of the pigeon here.\nFanny: And, the poster phenomenon in Mexico still exists. You go to Mexico City and you see posters, political posters on every wall. Everywhere. Print and post.\nRoss: So, these were meant to be massed produced, so they could spread out and widely seen?\nFanny: Yes, they still do it.\nRoss: Part of the goal of the mass-produced posters was to combat the government’s misinformation campaign and how the massacre was reported at the time by Mexican media, and to shape how it was to be perceived and remembered afterward.\nFanny: The newspapers were advertising that a bunch of anarchists started this fight against the government to break the reputation of the \"Mexican Miracle\". The other personal experience that I have is when my mom and dad were dating. She was very worried about my dad. She didn’t know what happened until she saw him. She heard something on the radio but didn’t imagine the significance of what happened. My grandmother was upset to think he was part of these anarchists when my dad was saying that’s not how it happened.\nRoss: So, there was a narrative and a counter-narrative.\nFanny: There was a huge division socially. Remember, we’re talking about a new middle class that was divided. The students who are fighting for social justice, and the Mexicans growing in this very wealthy Mexico who felt that they needed to protect this industrialized Mexico.\nJorge: It’s an interesting contrast because I have family members were very poor. But on the other side, some of my family are wealthy and would be millionaires. There was this contrast. And there was this feeling that we have to keep this quiet. There was a feeling not to rattle the cages and keep it nice and civil. Anyone trying to mess up that image up is not welcome. And definitely, you can still see this today with most affluent people in Mexico.\nThe families of the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College lead a protest, Sept. 26, 2015 in Mexico City. (Getty Images)\nRoss: As we mentioned, when the political reign of the PRI party ended, around 2001, the government began a period of reconciliation about what happened. But did things really improve for Mexico?\nFanny: I think the phenomenon of immigration can give you the answer. In the ‘70’s, immigration grew tremendously in the U.S. To me that is a manifestation of people wanting to escape the corrupted system. The revolution was just an ideal. My dad was constantly, constantly – like an existential crisis – he was very sad. My grandparents fought in the revolution, and he was a result of the revolution, he participated in this industrialization, hoping to have a better life condition. We grew up fine, but not rich. But so many social injustices. You would think after the Revolution, thousands of people were killed, 60 years later, and this thing happened, and the government acted like nothing happened. In 1971, there was another movement – \"Los Halcones\" – and same thing, nothing happened. And then the 43 (young student teachers) who disappeared a few years ago, and again, nothing happened. The government doesn’t have an answer. And people can see it’s a corrupted system. It makes me very sad.\nJorge: Something to add to that idea, on just how difficult it is to live. I grew up in a city, and there are different levels of police. And nobody is feared more than the judicial police. They are the law and executioner. They have the impunity to kill anyone at any time without repercussions. They became a myth, a bogie man. I had some run-ins with them as a kid. I had friends’ families run into them, and it’s not uncommon to hear about people disappearing, even in a large city, because of different political ideologies. And it’s still going on to this day.\nMexican immigrant Nieves Ojendiz holds her 4-year old daughter Jane as she attends an immigration reform rally in New York City, on June 28, 2016. (Drew Angerer—Getty Images)\nRoss: For me, as someone trying to better understand the phenomenon of mass migration and the political concerns of immigration of people from Mexico wanting to come to the U.S., this conversation seems relevant and important.\nSo, you see this mass movement of people wanting a better life and wanting to get out and come to this country. But did that pick up after this event, or was it more gradual?\nJorge: It picked up in the ‘80s, especially after the Reagan Administration as the economic situation became direr, there were more immigrants, there was more movement of people and we started noticing it more and cracking it down more, and it became more of an issue in the U.S. in the 70s and 80s. You can see the reaction by the U.S. to this migration, which is interesting since the U.S. was largely responsible for the conditions that created this movement in the first place.\nRoss: The Mexican “Dirty War,” and the seemingly never-ending injustices that hurt Mexico and its people in the decades following the Tlatelolco massacre is something that still today weighs heavily on the minds of many people.\nFanny: I think for me, from my perspective as a Mexican immigrant, I see it as history repeating itself all the time. It doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad, it’ll happen again. Maybe to make peace we have to have war? But it depresses me that these things are constantly happening, that shows these things are always happening. It’s why we have to have these conversations because we have to question what happened. We have to look, and study and ask people their personal stories.\nJorge: There’s another problem and that is today we have a very tailored ideology. Mass media and the arts are custom made to specific ideologies to push the narratives. And one of the beautiful things of the art world was it was able to speak about injustices and bring the public face on it in a unique way. Whereas you couldn’t just protest without repercussions, and some artists were persecuted, but a lot of their works tended to survive. But now, in the U.S., artists are depicting a specific ideology based on their political ideas, and it creates more confusion. And it makes it harder to learn any specific thing out of it. Now it’s harder to tell what side was right. Because now we have this idea that if only this side would do what we need them to do, or if this side would only do this other thing, and there’s no reconciliation. It’s only gotten worse in the past decades.\nSusan: When we do exhibits of photographs of the Mexican Revolution, we have a lot of older people who shed a lot of tears. They saw there was so much hope, million people died and family members died and they say, what for? So I think, that really signaled the end of hope that a lot of people had in Mexico. And the muzzling of the opposition, or artists or people who speak out is awful because usually, the artists are the first to speak out against injustices. And now, journalism, journalists in Mexico – it’s a very risky profession. A lot of journalists are being silenced.\nJorge: It’s the most dangerous place for a journalist in the world – Mexico.\nFanny: But, to be optimistic, when I go there to visit my family, as a foreigner in her own country, what gives me hope is that level of authentic artistic expression. If you go to Mexico, any plaza, any museum, you will find art somehow, color, vibrant expressions. People have a huge desire to express themselves through art. It’s the only way they can do it. And they do it through crafts because it’s their ancient culture or through paintings, or singing, or street art. It's fabulous. I get so passionate about it. You can almost touch it. It's there. You can hear the voice of the people, you can see it in every single thing that they do. And it's in the families, too.\nJorge: A few years ago, I became very interested in ancient history, Mexican ancient history, native history, especially in art. In the last eight to ten years there has been some sort of \"renaissance\", \"decolonization\". All sorts of modern movements, different types of artists (from musicians to actors to painters). All the mediums, expressing this idea, that we are done with the past, it's time for us to find ourselves again, find our roots again. That as an artist excited me to explore that as well. I think there's definitely an optimism there. It’s not over yet.\n~ ~ ~\nThanks to our commentators Susan Vogel; Fanny Guadalupe Blauer; and Jorge Rodriguez. Episode produced and edited by Ross Chambless; Thanks to the Scope Radio at University of Utah Health for the studio space; Music credit: The music you heard in this episode comes from Cliff Martinez, Gustavo Santaolalla, Ellito Goldenthal, Calexico, Al Caiola, Antonio Pinto, Philip Glass, and Fernando Delgadillo.\nEngage with Us:\nDid you or one of your family members have an experience with this sad event in 1968?\nDid the decline of civil society in Mexico affect you or your family in the years following? What has been your experience?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "* This is the Consumer Version. *\nPaget Disease of Bone\n(Osteitis Deformans; Paget's Disease of Bone)\nPaget disease of bone is a chronic disorder of the skeleton in which areas of bone undergo abnormal turnover, resulting in areas of enlarged and softened bone.\nThe breakdown and formation of bone increase, resulting in bones that are thicker, but weaker, than normal.\nSymptoms may be absent or may include bone pain, bone deformity, arthritis, and painful nerve compression.\nX-rays show the bone abnormalities.\nPain and complications are treated, and bisphosphonates may be given.\nPaget disease can affect any bone, but the most commonly affected bones are the pelvis, thighbone (femur), skull, shin (tibia), spine (vertebrae), collarbone (clavicle), and upper arm bone (humerus).\nPaget disease rarely occurs in people younger than 40. In the United States, about 1% of people older than 40 have the disorder, and the prevalence increases with age. However, the prevalence of the disease seems to be decreasing. Men are 50% more likely than women to develop it. Paget disease is more common in Europe (excluding Scandinavia), Australia, and New Zealand. Many people have no symptoms.\nNormally, cells that break down old bone (osteoclasts) and cells that form new bone (osteoblasts) work in balance to maintain bone structure and integrity. In Paget disease, both osteoclasts and osteoblasts become overactive in some areas of bone, and the rate at which bone is broken down and rebuilt (bone remodeling—see Osteoporosis) in these areas increases tremendously. The overactive areas enlarge but, despite being large, are structurally abnormal and weak.\nThe cause of Paget disease is unknown. The disorder tends to run in families, and recent information suggests that a group of genetic defects possibly contributes. Also, some evidence suggests that a virus is involved. However, there is no evidence that the disorder is contagious.\nOvergrown bone may compress nerves and other structures passing through small openings. The spinal canal may become narrow and compress the spinal cord. Osteoarthritis (see Osteoarthritis (OA)) may develop in joints near the involved bone.\nRarely, heart failure develops because the increased blood flow through the affected bone puts extra stress on the heart. Because blood flow through affected bones is unusually high, those bones may bleed excessively if subjected to surgery. The affected bone becomes cancerous in fewer than 1% of people who have Paget disease. People whose disease progresses to bone cancer usually develop an osteosarcoma (see Osteosarcoma).\nHigh blood levels of calcium (hypercalcemia—see Hypercalcemia (High Level of Calcium in the Blood)) occasionally occur in bedridden older people with Paget disease or in anyone with severe Paget disease who becomes immobilized or dehydrated. These high levels of calcium can result in many problems, such as high blood pressure, acute kidney injury, muscle weakness, constipation, and stones in the urinary tract.\nIn some people, the parathyroid gland becomes overactive, resulting in a need to consume more calcium. If too little calcium is consumed, low blood levels of calcium can occur, occasionally resulting in problems such as confusion, poor memory, and muscle aches and twitches.\nPaget disease usually causes no symptoms, although bone pain, bone enlargement, or bone deformity may occur. Bone pain may be deep, aching, and occasionally severe and may worsen at night. The enlarging bones may compress nerves, causing more pain. If osteoarthritis occurs, joints become painful and stiff.\nOther symptoms vary depending on which bones are affected. The skull may enlarge, and the brow and forehead may look more prominent. A person may notice this enlargement when a larger hat is needed. Enlarged skull bones may damage the inner ear (cochlea), which can cause hearing loss, and dizziness. The enlarged skull bones can compress nerves, which causes headaches. The veins on the scalp may bulge, possibly because of the increased blood flow through the skull bones. The vertebrae may enlarge, weaken, and buckle, resulting in a loss of height and a hunched posture. Damaged vertebrae may pinch the nerves of the spinal cord, causing pain, numbness, tingling, weakness, or, very rarely, even paralysis in the legs. People may have bowing of the upper arm, thigh, or leg bones. People with bowed thighs or legs may take short, unsteady steps. Affected bones are more likely to break.\nPaget disease is often discovered accidentally when x-rays or laboratory tests are performed for other reasons. Otherwise, the diagnosis may be suspected based on the symptoms and a physical examination. The diagnosis can be confirmed by x-rays showing abnormalities characteristic of Paget disease and by a laboratory test indicating elevated blood levels of alkaline phosphatase, an enzyme involved in bone cell formation. A bone scan (a radionuclide test using technetium—see Radionuclide Scanning) shows which bones are affected.\nThe prognosis for people with Paget disease is most often very good. However, the few people who develop bone cancer have a poor prognosis. People who develop other complications, such as heart failure or compression of the spinal cord, may also have a poor prognosis, unless treatment of these complications is timely and successful.\nA person who has Paget disease needs treatment if the symptoms cause discomfort or if there is a significant risk or suggestion of complications, such as hearing loss, osteoarthritis, and deformity.\nCommonly used analgesics such as acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) help reduce bone pain. If one leg becomes bowed and shortened, heel lifts can help make walking easier. Sometimes surgery is needed to relieve pinched nerves or to replace a joint that has become arthritic from Paget disease.\nOne of several bisphosphonates—alendronate, etidronate, pamidronate, risedronate, tiludronate, or zoledronate—can be used to slow the progression of Paget disease. Except for pamidronate and zoledronate, which are usually given by vein (intravenously), these drugs are given by mouth. These drugs are given for the following:\nBefore orthopedic surgery to prevent or reduce bleeding during surgery\nTo treat bone pain caused by Paget disease\nTo prevent or slow the progression of complications (such as hearing loss, weakness, or paralysis), especially in people who cannot have surgery\nTo attempt to prevent arthritis, further hearing loss, or further bone deformity\nTo people with a blood level of alkaline phosphatase twice the normal level or higher\nThe newer bisphosphonates (such as zoledronate) seem to slow the progression of Paget disease for a longer period of time.\nCalcitonin is occasionally injected under the skin or into muscle. It is not as effective as the bisphosphonates and is used only when the other drugs cannot be given.\nDoctors encourage weight bearing (such as standing and walking). Bed rest (except for sleeping at night) should be avoided, if possible, to prevent hypercalcemia. If severe hypercalcemia does develop, intravenous fluids and a drug called furosemide are given to increase the excretion of calcium.\nDietary intake of calcium and vitamin D (necessary for calcium absorption) should be sufficient to ensure that the incorporation of calcium into bone (bone mineralization) is adequate because bone is being remodeled rapidly (see Bones). Vitamin D and calcium supplements are often needed. Otherwise, poor bone mineralization (osteomalacia) may occur.\nGeneric NameSelect Brand Names\ntiludronateNo US brand name\n* This page is for Consumers *", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The impact of family background on academic achievement, educational trajectories, and life-chances more generally has been a point of interest among academics for many years. The issue has been researched both quantitatively and qualitatively, with the two traditions generating quite different pictures of family level ‘variables’ and processes related to child outcomes and boarder inequalities in education. This paper presents evidence of how parenting aspirations, strategies and practices vary according to social class gradients and work together in a holistic way to (re)produce social advantage and disadvantage during the primary school years.\n- social class\n- Social class", "label": "No"}
{"text": "These are the people who never became ruler of England for a variety of reasons, despite the throne being their birthright\nWilliam Adelin 5/8/1103 to 25/11/1120\nThe only son of Henry 1. Henry of Huntingdon, a chronicler of the time, refers to the prince as ‘pampered’ & seemed to be ’destined to be food for the fire’ which would imply that his chances of successfully surviving the rigours of a medieval court remote. He possibly lacked the skills needed to subdue his barons to his will. William died in the White Ship disaster crossing the channel from Barfleur. The party were all drunk & the helmsman took the ship onto the rocks. William died in an attempt to rescue his half-sister. William’s death eventually led to the period in English history when ‘Christ & his saints slept’ – the war between William’s sister Maud (also known as Matilda) & his cousin Stephen, when even a self-indulgent king would have been preferable to the mayhem that swept across the country.\nHenry the Young King (as he was known to his contemporaries). 28/2/1155 to 11/6/1183\nHenry was the second son of Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine (his elder brother died in infancy). Although technically crowned king while his father was still alive, to assure a non-contested inheritance, Henry never ruled alone as he died before his father, with whom he was in conflict. The Young King was not very interested in the day to day details of government (possibly because his workaholic father kept the majority of power in his own hands). According to WL Warren Henry showed ‘’no evidence of political sagacity, military skill, or even ordinary intelligence...’’ Henry was popular as he was heavily involved in partaking of the tournaments across Europe. But this was not a necessary skill for a king. The Young King joined with a number of his French subjects in a rebellion against the older king’s rule in 1173. Henry died of dysentery contracted during a further campaign against his father.\nEdward of Woodstock – known to history as the Black Prince 15/6/1330 to 8/6/1376\nThe eldest son of Edward III, Prince Edward was popular with the people. He was a strong warrior; his victories in the Hundred Years War include Crècy, the Siege of Calais & Poitiers. He also acted as Regent during his father’s absences in France & was expected to attend council meetings. He & his wife Joan (commonly known as the Fair Maid of Kent) held court in Aquitaine as his father’s representative. After January 1371 Edward’s illness (possibly cancer or MS) meant that he was no longer able to campaign.\nHis contempt for the lower classes, evidenced by his rule in Aquitaine, would probably have been mirrored in England had he succeeded his father. There is no doubt that the sick prince would have been a sick king, potentially unable to control his nobles. But this might have been better for the country than the 10 year old Richard, who succeeded his grandfather & whose misrule resulted in deposition & murder.\nEdward of Westminster also known as Edward of Lancaster 13/10/1453 to 4/5/1471\nOnly son of Henry VI, who struggled with bouts of insanity, Edward was in thrall to his strong mother - Margaret of Anjou. There were rumours that Edward was not Henry’s son, although acknowledged as his son by Henry. In 1460, after capture at the battle of Northampton by the Duke of York, Henry VI was forced by the Yorkists to disinherit his son by the Act of Accord in 1460. Margaret was not prepared to accept her son’s disinheritance & the War of the Roses spiralled on, Edward spending much of the next eleven years on the run or in exile in France.\nFollowing an agreement with the Earl of Warwick, Edward & his mother returned to rebel against the man who had become Edward IV in his stead. Prince Edward died at the battle of Tewkesbury, three weeks before his father was murdered in the tower. It would appear unlikely that Edward would have been the strong king England needed at this time; to heal the schism between the two warring factions of Lancastrians & Yorkists. He also carried the taint of madness inherited from his French great grandfather & his father.\nEdward V 2/11/1470 to 29/7/1483? (Exact date of death unknown)\nEldest son of Edward IV, Edward was brought up as a scholar & had a dignity beyond his years according to one of his last attendants in the Tower (where he had been sent, allegedly for his safety). It is impossible to say what kind of king Edward would have made. Had his uncle done as Edward IV intended and ruled as Regent, handing the throne over to his nephew, when he reached his majority, then the final campaign of the Wars of the Roses might have been avoided. Without a strong committed guardian &/or Regent then the weakness of yet another child king would have seen a resurgence of the war. Richard, Duke of Gloucester, making use of rumours that Edward’s mother, Elizabeth Woodville, was not married to Edward IV (there were only 3 witnesses to the marriage), had Edward & his brother Richard, Duke of York, declared bastards & thereupon took the throne himself. The cause of their deaths are not known, but popular belief is that they were murdered on the order of their uncle.\nPrince Arthur 19-20/9/1486 to 2/4/1502\nThe elder son of Henry VII, Arthur was Prince of Wales & President of the Council of Wales & Marches. He was sent to live in Ludlow at the age of 6, where he began his training in kingship. Arthur was known to be studious, thoughtful & reserved. Married on the 4th November 1501 to the Infanta Catalina (known to history as Catherine of Aragon), within 6 months Arthur died at Ludlow of an unknown illness. He would probably have made a better king than his brother Henry, being less flamboyant & extravagant. Arthur appeared to be happy marrying Catherine, which would have left the country firmly in the bosom of the Catholic church. By 1509 he would have been 24, with 18 years of training in kingship behind him, ready to take on the role of ruling a kingdom.\nPrince Henry Frederick 19/2/1594 to 6/11/1612\nElder son of James I - In 1598 James I had the Basilikon Doron printed for the instruction of his elder son Henry. The Basilikon sets out James’ views on kingship. On the king’s instructions Henry’s household was more akin to a college. In 1605 Henry was sent to study at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took an interest in sports. A witty, outgoing & popular young man, Henry was also interested in naval & military matters, as well as national issues; about which he was unafraid to take issue with his father. Henry was also able to keep financial control of his money (unlike his father & brother). Henry died of Typhoid fever at the age of 18. It would have been difficult for Henry to have made more of a mess of his reign than his younger brother.\nJames Francis Edward Stuart – known as the Old Pretender 10/6/1688 to 1/1/1766\nThe son of James II – controversy surrounded even James’ birth, when Protestant supporters claimed he had been smuggled into the birthing chamber in a warming pan, rather than being the natural son of a Catholic king, who already had two Protestant daughters by his first wife. At a period when anti-Catholic feelings ran high, the thought that James would be succeeded by a Catholic son inflamed the populace.\nAt six months old James was taken abroad by his mother Mary of Modena, fearing for the safety of her son, just over a month after the successful invasion of England by William of Orange. James was brought up in France & was recognised by his father’s cousin, Louis XIV, as heir to the throne of England. In 1701, upon the death of James II, who was held by the English to have abdicated, James was declared King of England by the French & James’ Jacobite supporters. He headed an unsuccessful invasion in 1708 & in 1713 at the peace of Utrecht France was obliged to expel James & he moved to Rome, after a brief unsuccessful attempt to invade the country of his birth in 1715. Further attempts at a restoration of the Stuart dynasty were left to James’ son, Charles – the Young Pretender.\nIt is unlikely that James would have agreed to become a Protestant in order to placate his subjects fears of an enforced return to the church in Rome. His inflexibility in this matter does not indicate that he would have made a better king than his father, or his father’s successor – his brother-in-law William.\nPrince Frederick 1/2/1707 to 20/3/1751\nThe elder son of George II, Prince Frederick was left in the care of his great-uncle from the age of seven & did not see his parents again until he was 21 years old, a young man, fond of drinking, gambling & women. When he finally arrived in England Frederick set up his own ‘court in opposition’.\nLike several other Princes of Wales (including his grandson) Frederick ran up massive debts. George II refused to give Frederick an allowance that would cover his expenses & Frederick’s pecuniary difficulties were relieved by George Bubb Dodington, a rich politician. Eventually Frederick applied to Parliament for an increase in his allowance, which was granted but he was given less than he asked for.\nFollowing an incident caused by Frederick’s removal of his heavily pregnant wife from Hampton Court, to give birth without the presence of the King & Queen (a serious breach of royal protocol & without much thought for his suffering wife)) Frederick was banished from court – ambassadors in London were told not to visit the prince & his family.\nFrederick was detested by his parents & by Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister for much of George II’s reign. Frederick’s sisters considered him one of the world’s greatest liars. But to his children Frederick was a good father, taking an interest in their education & encouraging them to share in his interests in art & science, gardening, astronomy, music (Frederick played the viola & cello) and amateur dramatics. Frederick enjoyed poetry & co-wrote a play that was taken off on its opening night & the entrance fee refunded to the audience.\nIn 1751 Frederick developed an abscess on the lung & subsequently a cold, which might have turned into pleurisy. The abscess burst & Frederick died. Popular with the masses as an alternative to the greatly disliked George II, Frederick had never been much thought of by his father’s supporters. His early ‘wild’ living settled down in middle age to a happy home life. It is not possible to say whether he would have been a good king, once upon the throne, but his son, immature at 22 faced a far more difficult reign than his father would have done aged 53.\nPrincess Charlotte Augusta 17/1/1796 to 6/11/1817Princess Charlotte was the only child of the Prince Regent & his hated wife Caroline of Brunswick. As a child Charlotte was caught up in the vicious fight between her parents. The princess had restricted contact with her mother & her father was little interested in his daughter. The child was used as a pawn in her parents’ battles, both sides appealing to the king & queen to back their entrenched positions.\nCharlotte was much loved by her grandfather & her aunts & spent some happy times with them in Weymouth & at Windsor. George III doted on his granddaughter & arranged for her education. As a teenager Charlotte was considered undignified, but her father was proud of her ability as a horsewoman. She was fond of Haydn & Mozart and identified herself with Marianne from Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility. Charlotte was deeply saddened by her grandfather’s descent into madness & must have been hurt by her father’s habits of exposing her grandfather’s ravings to his cronies.\nA supporter of the Whigs Charlotte was annoyed by her father’s refusal, once Prince Regent, to bring the Whigs into government. The Prince Regent pressurised his daughter into accepting the suit of the Prince of Orange. The breaking off of the engagement by Charlotte led to a battle of wills between her & her father. But in 1816 Charlotte was allowed to marry Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. Charlotte died in childbirth, after 18 months of happy married life.\nObviously a woman with a mind of her own, Charlotte would have been 34 when she became queen. Her husband Leopold became an adviser to Queen Victoria. There is no reason to suppose he would not have done the same for his wife, whose reign might have been as successful. She would certainly have been as popular as Victoria, as Charlotte was seen as an antidote to her extremely unpopular father.\nEdward VIII – later Duke of Windsor 23/6/1894 to 28/5/1972\n|The Duke & Duchess of Windsor meet Adolf Hitler|\nIn 1914 Edward joined the Grenadier Guards but was not allowed to serve, as the effect on morale of his capture by the enemy would have been crippling. However Edward visited the front line on a number of occasions, making himself popular with the troops.\nAs Prince of Wales, Edward undertook many foreign tours, representing his father. He became extremely popular & appeared in magazines & newspapers regularly. His numerous affairs & his failure to settle down worried the king & his advisers. The affair with twice married Wallis Simpson, who appeared to have the prince completely under her thumb, was even more disturbing. It has been alleged that Wallis was very ‘friendly’ with the Nazi German ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop & in Italy there were rumours that in the 1920s Wallis had an affair with Galleazzo Ciano, when he was posted in Singapore.\nAfter the death of his father in January 1936 the politicians’ unease was increased by the new king’s apparent disinterest in the affairs of state. State papers were ignored & left about for his guests to peruse, if they so chose. Prime Minister Baldwin & his colleagues were concerned when the king spent much of August & September 1936 cruising in the Mediterranean with his mistress. Although it was not until November that the king informed Baldwin that he wished to wed a twice divorced woman.\nOn 10th December Edward signed the Instrument of Abdication, preferring to marry Wallis Simpson, to reigning as King of England. It is however believed that Edward offered to abdicate to get his own way over marrying Wallis. He was unable to believe that his offer would be accepted, forgetting that the rule of royals to produce ‘an heir & a spare’ meant that Edward’s brother Albert was available for the job. As it was Albert, who became George VI, rose to the occasion & was a source of inspiration to his subjects during the dark days of World War II.\nEdward would have caused problems in British relations with Nazi Germany as his visit as Duke of Windsor in 1937 illustrates. One of Edward’s close associates, a Charles Bedaux, was in close contact with the Nazi hierarchy & had a home at Berchtesgarden along with Hitler, Goering & Bormann. Edward would possibly also have interfered in politics. His brother was a much better choice as monarch.\nThe Later Stuarts – George Clark, Oxford University Press 1985\nEdward VIII – Frances Donaldson, Wiedenfeld & Nicholson 1978\nJames 1 – Antonia Fraser, Book Club Associates 1974\nThe Reign of King Henry VI - RA Griffiths, Sutton Publishing 1998\nGeorge III – Christopher Hibbert, Viking 1998\nKing George II & Queen Caroline – John van der Kiste, Sutton Publishing 1997\nThe Earlier Tudors – JD Mackie, Oxford University Press 1992\nEdward III – WM Ormrod, Tempus Publishing 2005\nHenry II - W. L. Warren, Yale University Press, 2000\nThe Princes in the Tower – Alison Weir, Pimlico 1997", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hiking is an outdoor activity which consists of walking in natural environments, often in mountainous or other scenic terrain. People often hike on hiking trails. It is such a popular activity that there are numerous hiking organizations worldwide. The health benefits of different types of hiking have been confirmed in studies. Some of the health benefits of hiking include, but are not limited to, losing excess weight, decreasing hypertension, and improving mental health. The word hiking is understood in all English-speaking countries, but there are differences in usage.\nIn the United States and United Kingdom, hiking refers to walking outdoors on a trail for recreational purposes. A day hike refers to a hike that can be completed in a single day - not requiring an overnight camp. Multi-day hikes with camping is referred to as backpacking. In the United Kingdom hiking is usually called rambling, which resulted in the hiking organization named Ramblers. Bushwhacking specifically refers to difficult walking through dense forest, undergrowth, or bushes, where forward progress requires pushing vegetation aside. In extreme cases of bushwhacking where the vegetation is so dense that human passage is impeded, a machete is used to clear a pathway. Australians use the term bushwalking for both on- and off-trail hiking. New Zealanders use tramping (particularly for overnight and longer trips), walking or bushwalking. Multi-day hiking in the mountainous regions of India, Pakistan, Nepal, North America, South America, Iran and in the highlands of East Africa is also called trekking. Hiking a long-distance trail from end-to-end is also referred to as trekking and as thru-hiking in some places.  Examples of long-distance trails include the Appalachian Trail (AT) and Long Trail (LT).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We began the class period with the following entry task: How are carbon-12, carbon-13, and carbon 14 similar? How are they different? Which isotope would you expect to find most often in nature? Explain your thinking.\nNext, we watched a segment of the NOVA video Hunting the Elements, beginning at 1:39:33 and ending at 1:52:04. The video served to remind students about last week’s lesson about isotopes (Lesson 13) and to help prepare them for our work this week.\nAfter the video, we reviewed the Lesson 14 PowerPoint. Students then received copies of the Lesson 14 Worksheet and the Chart of Naturally Occurring Isotopes. working in pairs to complete the lesson by the end of the class period.\nHomework for this evening:\n- Read Lesson 14 in the textbook. Login via hs.saplinglearning.com and enter your username and password:\n- Username: wahps****s-####### (**** = first 4 letters of your last name and ####### = student number). Remember to include the dash between s and #.\n- Password: S-####### (the S must be capitalized)\n- Work through the homework problems at the end of Lesson 14 and then verify accuracy with the Lesson 14 Homework Answers.\n- Write notes for Lesson 14 on the Chapter 03 Notes handout.\n- Come to class tomorrow prepared to ask questions about anything of the homework problems from Lesson 14 you did not understand.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Vegan diets are, for some people, perhaps a good choice. But many of my veterinary clients ask about the potential for feeding their cats such a diet. In answer to that question, a vegan diet is a poor choice for your cat. Such a diet cannot provide all of the nutrients that your cat requires for health.\nIt’s natural, in many ways, for a person who has made certain lifestyle choices to consider the same types of choices for their pet. In this case, if a vegan lifestyle and diet is important to you, your choice of pet cannot be a cat. There are many pets that you could choose that would thrive on a vegan diet but a cat is not one of them.\nCats, as a species, are obligate carnivores. In very simple terms, this means that cats require meat in their diet. They have specific nutrient needs that can only be supplied through the ingestion of animal meat.\nCats, like all other species, have very specific nutrient needs. They require certain proteins and other nutrients in their diet that are simply not found in plant sources.\nQuestions I sometimes hear are, “Isn’t a protein a protein?” and “Does it really matter where the protein comes from?” Here are the answers. There are many different types of proteins. Each protein is made up of amino acids. Amino acids are frequently referred to as the “building blocks” of protein. And each protein requires specific types of amino acids. So, one protein is not simply a protein like any other, and one amino acid is not either.\nFor instance, taurine is a specific amino acid that is required by all cats. Without sufficient amounts of taurine in the diet, cats can experience heart disease, vision problems, and other health issues. And cats cannot synthesize taurine by themselves. It needs to be provided through the diet. Taurine is not available through plants though. It is only available through animal sources (although there is a synthetic source).\nTherefore, for a cat, the source of the protein definitely does matter. Cats not only require a higher protein level in their diet than other species (i.e., humans, dogs), but they also have a need for very specific proteins, and thus specific amino acids. Other essential amino acids for cats include methionine, arginine, and cysteine. These amino acids must be supplied in adequate quantities in the diet of all cats, also.\nAmino acids are not the only nutrients required by cats that are not available through plant sources either. Others include Vitamin D, vitamin A, and arachidonic acid. In people, vitamin D is produced through exposure to sunlight. Cats lack the ability to do so, resulting in Vitamin D (in its active form of calcitriol) being a nutrient that needs to be provided in the food. It is rare in plant sources, except those fortified with synthetic vitamin D, but is found in animals and fish.\nVitamin A generally needs to be provided through animal sources as well. Cats cannot synthesize the active form of the vitamin from beta-carotene as other species can.\nArachidonic acid is an essential fatty acid for cats. Again, it needs to be provided in the food your cat is eating and is primarily available through animal sources.\nAs a result of these unique dietary requirements, without synthetic supplementation of the diet, a cat is unable to safely eat a vegan diet. Even with supplementation, producing a cat food that is complete and fills all of the nutritional needs of a cat is difficult (and dangerous) without adding meat to the diet. This is why they are referred to as obligate carnivores and require meat in their diet.\nEnjoy the vegan diet for yourself, if that is your choice. But do not expect your cat to eat the same way.\nDr. Lorie Huston\nImage: António Maneira / Flickr", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Asthma is not just a disease that every child can outgrow. It can also be carried throughout adulthood and until the senior years. What’s even worse is that as the person grows older, the lungs and body may get weaker and the asthma can be harder to combat.\nDon’t worry though, if you have suffered from asthma all your life and until your golden years, it’s probably safe to assume that you have successfully triumphed over it and have overcome it. It may not be completely eradicated but if you continuously follow the doctor’s recommendation, keep a healthy diet and a happy mindset you can control this disease.\nSometimes older people who didn’t have asthma growing up may find themselves developing it later in life; the cause for this is not yet known but it can probably be associated with the weakening of the body’s immune system as one ages or perhaps it’s because of being constantly expose in different environments over the years that eventually triggers allergies and asthma.\nDiagnosis of Asthma in Older Adults\nYou’re not alone though, according to many surveys there’s a lot of people over the age of 60 that have been recently diagnose with asthma across the United States, for some they have been already diagnose since they were young and may have carried it through but for other it has recently developed even without medical history of asthma or allergies.\nThe downside of being diagnosed with asthma at a later age is that it could be difficult to treat since most seniors or older people may have other diseases or special concerns. When it comes to treatment, older people may experience more side effects from medicines than that of younger patients.\nIf you have just been recently diagnosed with asthma along with other health concerns or if this is something that you have carried through during your younger years, it’s always important to have a regular checkup so that you doctor can monitor your condition and prevent any asthma attack or symptoms.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How to Insert a Sound Object in Your PowerPoint 2007 Slides\nMove to the slide on which you want to insert sound.\nYour slide is open for editing.\nOpen the Insert tab on the Ribbon and then click the Sound button located on the right side of the tab.\nThe Insert Sound dialog box appears.\nSelect the sound file that you want to insert.\nClick Start—Search to search for files.\nA dialog box appears, asking whether you want the sound to play automatically when you display the sound, or play only when you click the sound’s icon.\nClick either the Automatically or When Clicked buttons.\nThe sound clip is added to your slide and represented by a little speaker icon.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A poetry workshop and conversation on superheroes, antiheroes, and villains in pop culture and how we identify with them. This program is an introduction to escapism in literature while improving the students’ introspection of self and the world around them.\nStudents will find their unique voice through the exploration of Haiku poetry, learning about the origin of Haiku, a short Japanese form of poetry. They will be instructed on how to use a Haiku Evaluation Rubric for Formatting, Clear Imagery & Illustration. Finally, to show off their creativity, students will have the opportunity to participate in a poetry slam.\nThis program is an introduction to folk music and folk musicians, including audience participation and sing-alongs to folk music and fairy tales. Children will be introduced to the guitar, including the parts of the instrument and how it can be played (strumming versus finger picking). Children will hear stories with musical components (piano/forte) and will sing and use hand signals to reinforce lyrics and melodies. Songs and stories will feature fantasy creatures, such as dragons and unicorns and a musical trip on a bear hunt.\nStudents begin by creating an original work of poetry and finish by making it into a dramatic performance. They will learn PIPES (Projection, Inflection, Pace, Eye Contact, Stance) skills needed for performance poetry and culminate with a spoken word reading, teaching them to transform their work into an artistic tool for self-expression. Teaching artist Ali McClain will expose students to various writing prompts (poetry, movie/TV clips, news, pop culture, etc.) for inspiration. Students will have the opportunity to provide critical feedback during the spoken word readings in an effort to improve performance techniques such as adding gestures for meaning, PIPES and overall content. Ali McClain will emphasize the importance of writing for oneself in order to have a voice in their community and even the world. In addition, students will be exposed to national young spoken word poets, local open mic venues and other resources for encouragement to continue writing.\nDuring your unit on Shakespeare or Emily Dickinson, your students may complain and ask, “Why do they talk so funny?” To appreciate the language of Shakespeare or Emily Dickinson, students need to understand poetic meter. In this program, students will learn about meter and rhyme in the poetry of Shakespeare and/or Emily Dickinson by reading their poems as well as more recent and accessible examples of poetic verse. They will discuss the themes and structure of the model poems, and then write their own poem in meter to experiment with the form.\nLake Erie Ink also offers poetry workshops in spoken word, figurative language, and much more, and can customize a program to meet your students’ needs.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "WE BELIEVE LEARNING CAN AND SHOULD BE FUN!\nWith that in mind we have developed this Education section to promote understanding of maple production and appreciation for the forest environment. There are learning opportunities suitable for all ages. Browse through the various activities where you are sure to find something of interest. There are riddles, word games, fun facts, songs, experiments, and much more...\nWHO MIGHT USE THIS EDUCATION SECTION?\nThere is something here for everyone! Children, adults, parents, caregivers, second language learners, teachers, and anyone wishing to learn more about maple syrup production will all find something of interest.\nHOW MIGHT THIS EDUCATION SECTION BE USED?\nParents: Is your child preparing a Science Project? Find our Project Guide below. Want help explaining maple syrup production? Find the Steps in the Process here.\nSecond Language Learners: Develop specific vocabulary and engage in all sorts of language developing opportunities here.\nTeachers: Want an interesting and meaningful theme for an integrated unit? Find a valuable classroom resource here.\nAll Ages: Think you know all about the maple industry? Try our Quiz and learn Fun Facts here.\nChildren: From coloring pages to challenging puzzles, find lots of fun things here.\nGAMES & PUZZLES\nREADING & WRITING\nCanadian Organic Maple syrup is consumed and enjoyed in many parts of the world including Asia, Europe, Middle East, United States and Canada.\nTotal length of piping used at Canadian Organic Maple is nearly 1,000 kilometers (620 miles).\nApproximately 140,000 liters of Maple syrup is processed each season at Canadian Organic Maple. Since it takes 40 liters of sap to produce 1 liter of syrup, that means over 5,600,000 liters of sap is collected each season. That’s enough sap to fill more than 2 Olympic sized swimming pools, or more than 14,000 average sized bathtubs!\nDepending on the size of the tree, some trees can have 2 taps.\nAbout 20 liters of sap is harvested per tap per season.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "“Communication is the key to relationships.” ~ James T. Webb.\nCommunication happens on many levels every minute of every day. Silence is as much a message as talking at top volume. Body language has an enormous impact on the meaning of our words. Technology both simplifies and complicates communication– we can communicate faster, but sometimes meaning is lost without physical or vocal inflections.\nFor gifted kids, communication is further confounded by asynchrony– the state of being at many stages and levels of development all within one person. Gifted kids may find conversation with age peers to be less comfortable than with adults, but at the same time struggle with the communication skills necessary for effective self-advocacy. Asynchrony may also increase a young person’s susceptibility to anxiety, which is another barrier to positive communication, using the best bath bombs with CBD help them to overcome this barrier.\nOur three-part workshop addresses these concepts and concerns, and gives young people and their families tools to identify and develop their own healthy communication strategies and styles. Each week will include an overview, a self-assessment, a library of ideas, and guidance to develop take-home strategies for immediate implementation.\n- March 6th, 2019 — Communication styles\n- March 13rd, 2019 — Self-advocacy\n- March 20th, 2019 — Self-talk and nonverbal communication\nPresenter, Carol Malueg, M.A., GCT, 2e\nCarol Malueg is the mother of 2 gifted daughters, a professional in the field of gifted education, and an active member of several state and national organizations that support gifted kids and their families. Carol is a Master Facilitator and Trainer for Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG). She has worked on three Javits Grant projects focused on improving identification of and services for gifted at-risk students. Carol is co-founder of absentmindedlearner.com, works with Mr. Gelston’s One Room Schoolhouse as a Learning Coach, and is an Independent Educational Consultant in gifted and twice-exceptional education. Carol serves as Past-President of the Minnesota Council for the Gifted and Talented.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "First Transcontinental Railroad - Auburn\nCalifornia State Historic Landmark 780-4\n#780-4 First Transcontinental Railroad\nAfter an eleven-month delay due to political opposition and lack of money, Central Pacific tracks reached Auburn May 13, 1865, and regular service began. Government loans became available when the railroad completed its first 40 miles, four miles east of here. With new funds, Central Pacific augmented its forces with the first Chinese laborers and work began again in earnest.\nNothing remains of this site.\n639 Lincoln Way, Auburn.\nReturn to other landmarks in Placer county.\nPlease note: I have no connection to any organizations mentioned on this site.\nSite contents copyright 1996-2000 by Donald Laird - all rights reserved\nSend comments to:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Óðin is attested heavily through many early sources across Europe. He is claimed as the ancestor of many kingly lines and is thus mentioned in ancient lineage records. More commonly known sources include Tacitus’s late 1st-century Germania, Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum in the 11th century, the 12th century Bryggen inscriptions, the Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Heimskringla, and many of the sagas.\nÓðin’s image can also be found on many archaeological finds: wooden and stone carvings, statues and crosses, tapestry fragments, armor and weapons, and decorative objects.\nHe is considered a god of wisdom, battle, death, magic and kinship, and considered popularly to be the leader of the Æsir. In later Christian texts, he is referred to as “king” of the gods, though this is more a reflection of the time period. In older texts it’s attested that the power structure of the Æsir mirrored that of human clan groups, with a community spokesperson who was involved with important decisions, represented the community at local Things and who presided over legal disputes. This leader was elected by the community, and could easily be un-elected and replaced. Óðin held this position of honour among the gods. As such, he is included in most of the stories of the gods, in brief cameos or to further the plot.\nÓðin is the husband of Frigga, and by her is the father of Baldr and Höðr. Pagan marriage was often broader in scope, and he had other consorts, including the giantess Jörð with whom he fathered Thor. By the giantess Gríðr, he is the father of Viðarr, and by the giantess Rindr, Váli. He is sometimes listed as the father of Bragi and Ullr, though the reference to Ullr is likely a later invention. He may have also been a husband of Freya.\nHe is the son of Borr and Bestla, and along with his brothers Vili and Vé (or sometimes Hœnir and Lóðurr) slew the first being, the giant Ýmir, and turned his body into the Earth. Walking along the shores of this new world, he and his brothers stumbled upon driftwood from the World Tree. These they fashioned into the first man, Ask and the first woman, Embla. As noted in the Poetic Edda:\n“Spirit they possessed not, sense they had not, blood nor motive powers, nor goodly colour. Spirit gave Óðin, sense gave Vili, blood gave Vé, and goodly colour.”\nThus the three brothers created the human race and gifted us consciousness and all of our senses. Under the protection of the Æsir, Miðgarðr became our home.\nÓðin is famous for his pursuit of wisdom, and many stories revolve around the sacrifices he makes to acquire knowledge and mastery. Early in his mythologies, a detailed scene is played out in which he raises a dead seeress, and questions her about the future of the gods. After learning of the death of Baldr, the coming Ragnarök, and his own death at the jaws of Fenrir, he sets off on quests to find how to stop, or at least stave off, the end of the world. The lore says that he appears in the world as a wanderer, or sometimes as the wind itself.\nHe is portrayed as one-eyed because he traded his eye to the beheaded god Mímir for a drink from Mímisbrunnr, the well of wisdom. Óðin also hangs himself upside-down from a tree (generally agreed to be Yggdrasil) denies himself food and drink, stabs himself with a spear, dies and resurrects to gain hidden knowledge – most notably the secrets of the Runes. In other stories, Ullr takes the high seat of the Æsir while Óðin wanders the world for years at a time, seeking answers to his questions and bestowing gifts upon mortals.\nIn the Prose Edda, he disguises himself as three characters: High, Just As High, and Third. In answering the questions of a man named Gangleri (the king Gylfi, also in disguise to test the wisdom of the gods) we learn that Óðin has two ravens, Huginn (Thought) and Muninn (Memory) who fly over the world to gather information for him daily. He also has two wolf servants, Geri and Freki, to whom he gives all of his meals, preferring to sustain himself on red wine. Through other readings, we discover that Óðin’s horse is eight-legged Sleipnir, the greatest of all horses, and the son of Loki.\nIn the Poetic Edda, a disguised Óðin seeks out the wisest of the giants, Vafþrúðnir for a contest of knowledge to the death. The two seem matched until Óðin asks Vafþrúðnir what Óðin whispered into the ear of his son, Baldr on his funeral pyre. At this point, the giant realizes that his guest is the wisest of the gods, and concedes that he cannot answer, forfeiting his life. We are led to believe through these tales of Óðin’s pursuits that he is indeed the wisest of beings – and yet he still cannot prevent the fall of the Æsir and the coming Ragnarök. Norse myth is rich with such dialectics and paradoxes.\nÓðin has several halls within Ásgard, and his main is Valaskjálf (“Shelf of the Slain”) which contains the tower holding Hliðskjálf, the high seat from which he can see everything happening in all worlds. The other important hall is Valhöll (“Hall of the Slain”) which is home of the Einherjar, Óðin’s chosen warriors for the battle at the end of the world, who are served mead by the valkyrja at night, and who practice fighting all day.\nIn Germanic and English folklore, he was believed to lead the Wild Hunt, a parade of dead souls he has gathered along the way, haunting the rural countryside. The Wild Hunt were believed to ride out from ghostly realms on Halloween, bringing with them frost and Winter winds. Ullr was also associated with the Hunt. The procession was greatly feared by Christians, and the tradition of jack-o-lanterns appeared, which were carved and set out as wards, that the Wild Hunt might pass by without recruiting those who dwelled within to their number. This procession is celebrated in modern times in the forms of Krampus parades at Christmas time.\nThoughts on Óðin\nÓðin is believed to be a powerful, active figure. He is famous among modern Heathens for “recruiting,” or reaching out to non-Heathens through dreams, meditations and visions, and inviting them into a spiritual relationship with him.\nHe is called the All-Father for good reason – not only because he pals around with mortals, gods, and jötunn alike, but because he is the mythic creator of the human race, and a figure of Divine leadership among the Æsir. He embodies wisdom, strength in battle, and the spirit of self-sufficiency. He is a god who participants in existence with us: suffering, struggling, pleasure and joy. Óðin is thought to be both a god of war and sex, of all that is exhilarating, and the experience that accompanies being alive.\nIn the lore, the All-Father isn’t afraid to go the distance, and he never asks his children to do anything he wouldn’t – which isn’t much. He’s even delved into seiðr in pursuit of wisdom, which is a traditional shamanic practice exclusive to women. He is also the master of galdr, or men’s magic. Galdr includes all magic that is consciously directed. Today we might call it hypnotism, psychology, and persuasive speech. Seiðr we might call intuition, dream interpretation, and oracular practice.\nÓðin’s horse, Sleipnir, is likely a metaphor for the trance and meditation journeys that he took. Sleipnir represented shamanic practice, and he was even able to travel through Hel and back.\nWorking with Óðin is reported as an intense experience for a lot of people, as he demands exchange for insight. Modern Heathens who work with him have noted that he tends to have a domineering, pushy quality and is rewarding to work with, albeit demanding.\nÓðin was widely worshiped throughout northern Europe, including Celtic lands, as the Celts and Norse were in constant contact. He shares archetypal similarities and motifs with the Celtic god Lugh. The Romans saw Óðin as alternately Mercury, Hades, or both.\nAs a god of war, Óðin is depicted as duplicitous at times with regards to men’s earthly fates. This speaks to the nature of war as a means to power, but one which is uncertain and ever-shifting. His devout warriors dressed as wolves and invoked their spirit in shamanic ceremonies and in preparing for battle. In doing so, they were believed to be impervious to pain, fear and were greatly feared on the battlefield. Stories of werewolves may owe their origin to a cult of Óðin.\nThough we often see him portrayed as an old man in armor or his trademark dark blue cloak, it should be noted that Óðin can take many forms, and has been kept youthful by Iðunn’s golden apples.\nSuggested Signs & Symbols\nSpears, ravens, all runes, poetry and writing. Hanged men and the valknut. The colours gold, royal and midnight blue. The wind and breath. Travelers, wizards (think Gandalf!) and shamans. Pirates and other one-eye imagery. The runes Odal and Óss. The numbers three and nine, and the day Wednesday. Red wine. Werewolves.\nÓðinn, Woden, Wotan, Wodanaz, Wuotan, All-Father, Harbardr (‘grey-beard’) are some of the main ones, but there are sooooooooooo many – Over 170 recorded so far!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Paul in Ephesians 6:4 has a similar message for parents, that they are not to “provoke their children to wrath” by “bringing them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” Similarly, Deuteronomy 6 includes the command that parents are to diligently teach their children the words of God. During the Reformation, in encouraging parents to take seriously this duty, Martin Luther wrote, “Where the Holy Scriptures are not the rule, I should advise no one to send his child.” The consistent message (which could supported by multitudes of additional witnesses) is that parents have the responsibility before God to steward the education of their children in the things of God.\nTrue education is that which is dedicated to the growth in wisdom, virtue, and godliness, and is intended to be a partnership between parents and the school. Parents are called to raise their children in the “discipline and instruction” of God, to be good stewards of the trust God has put on them. Schools assist in this important work, but the ultimate responsibility rests with parents. Veritas’ ‘Portrait of a Graduate’, a set of statements that describe our ideal graduate, helps to guide our work with students both in and out of classroom. Under the parents’ authority, we seek to see these things lived out in our students, including that our graduates will:\n· - spend some of their leisure time actively pursuing the liberal arts and attending to the fine arts\n· -use logical reasoning to draw valid conclusions, recognize invalid reasoning, and make wise decisions\n· - practice their Christian faith in thought, word, and deed\nHow we choose to use our leisure time will indicate what we think is important. It may be too much to say that it is a window into our soul, but it certainly reflects our priorities and our view of our place in the world. Just as parents are called to be stewards of their children’s education, we are all called to be good stewards of our leisure. We desire that our students will want to use at least some of this time (which is increasingly abundant in our automated world) in an active, rather than a passive, pursuit of things that are distinctly human. To make this possible we work to equip them with an understanding of, and a growing love for, the arts in many forms—literature, inquiry into the physical world, mathematics, music, painting, sculpture, etc. Parents, of course, must model this interest for the school’s impact to be most effective.\nOne of the hallmarks of classical education is the training of logical reasoning that supports wise decision making. To foster these habits words and truth in discussable propositions form key element in our curriculum. Writing, debate, and discussion are frequent classroom activities designed not for mere personal expression but for the development of sound thinking. We want our students to understand that wisdom comes primarily with the use of words that carry ideas, not images laden with vague impressions. Again, in their role of stewards of their children’s education parents will provide the most potent example of commitment to words, and particularly to applying the word of God to all of life. Words and ideas, not images, pervade the home where children are growing up into thoughtful and wise adulthood.\nOf course, it is of vital importance that the elements of the Portrait are lived out in concrete ways and are not merely nice ideas to assent to. This is emphasized in the last of the points under consideration, that of practicing the Christian faith in thought, word, and deed. It is not enough to have correct theological positions. Christianity is to be incarnated. (There is a potential danger, perhaps, of hypocrisy here, but if students are encouraged to rely on the grace of God for these things in their lives, then the genuine strengthening of the faith of the humble is worth the risk that a few might try to fake it.)\nThe forces of modernism have reduced education to a system which trains humans to fit their roles in serving the machinery of the modern economy. This reduces people to mere interchangeable parts in this vast machine. Biblical education, however, offers a challenge to this view of a godless, materialist cosmos and man’s place in it. Classical and Christian education is a critique of these modernist assumptions, and it is built instead on a world where God is Creator and sustainer, where people are unique individuals made in the image of God for the worship of God and the service of others, and not for servitude to the state, the economy, or mere appetites. Classical, Christ-centered education supports the nurturing in wisdom, virtue, and godliness that parents, as stewards of their children’s souls, seek to encourage.\nWe rely on--and we rejoice in--the fact that only God can do these things. Faith is a work of the Holy Spirit not of classical, Christian schools. Wisdom and virtue can be cultivated, but God alone can give the harvest. But God uses means—parents, school, and churches. If our Portrait of a Graduate is to be realized in the lives of our students, if we all are to be found good stewards of the responsibilities that God has given us, then it will require a partnership of all of these God-given means ultimately led, directed, and supported by parents.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "West Virginia is bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the north, and Maryland to the northeast. West Virginia is the 41st largest by area and the 38th most populous of the 50 United States. The capital and largest city is Charleston.\nWest Virginia became a state following the Wheeling Conventions and broke away from Virginia during theAmerican Civil War. The new state was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key Civil War border state. West Virginia was the only state to form by seceding from a Confederate state and was one of two states formed during the American Civil War (the other being Nevada, which separated from Utah Territory).\nWest Virginia Flag\nWheeling is one of the cities in West Virginia. The city of Wheeling has a rich and varied history.\nOne of them is Wheeling Suspension Bridge. It was the first bridge built across the Ohio River in 1849 and for a time was the longest suspension bridge in the world. It is still the oldest vehicular suspension bridge in the United States still in use.\nCelebrating West Virginia State's 150th birthday", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Ever wondered what does the stuff on the back of food packages mean? Or how much of a certain food you should eat? Or what does everyone mean when they talk about a balanced diet or food pyramid? Well, let’s find answers to such questions at Silly Science this month where focus will be on Nutrition. Join us on November 12, 2013 at 4:30 PM in the Robin Bush Activity Room  to learn and have fun and eat a healthy snack too. Yum!!!\nTo enhance your knowledge and to be on top of your food pyramid, check out our collection. We have many books to help you with that. Some of them are:\nDiet And Nutrition  by Patsy Westcott\nA Balanced Diet by Catherine Veitch", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This practical book teaches the skills that scientists need for turning large sequencing datasets into reproducible and robust biological findings. Many biologists begin their bioinformatics training by learning scripting languages like Python and R alongside the Unix command line. But there's a huge gap between knowing a few programming languages and being prepared to analyze large amounts of biological data.\nRather than teach bioinformatics as a set of workflows that are likely to change with this rapidly evolving field, this book demsonstrates the practice of bioinformatics through data skills. Rigorous assessment of data quality and of the effectiveness of tools is the foundation of reproducible and robust bioinformatics analysis. Through open source and freely available tools, you'll learn not only how to do bioinformatics, but how to approach problems as a bioinformatician.\n- Go from handling small problems with messy scripts to tackling large problems with clever methods and tools\n- Focus on high-throughput (or \"next generation\") sequencing data\n- Learn data analysis with modern methods, versus covering older theoretical concepts\n- Understand how to choose and implement the best tool for the job\n- Delve into methods that lead to easier, more reproducible, and robust bioinformatics analysis", "label": "No"}
{"text": "It was just a regular school day, and I went to my locker to get my things. But then, as soon as I opened my locker, I saw a flash of bright light and before I knew it I was sitting on a big hill! That was strange. The land in Cleveland was very flat, so I wasn't sure where I was. Near me was a large acropolis. I wondered where I was. I stood up, and I realized I was wearing a toga, and that confused me. What kind of people wear togas? I wondered. Thinking back to my social studies class, I remembered that the Ancient Greeks people wore togas! That meant I had traveled back in time to Ancient Greece!\nI kept looking around. I saw mountains surrounding the land around me on three sides, and open land on one side. I tried to remember what city-state in Greece had geography like that, and then the answer popped into my mind: Sparta! I walked down to take a look at the city. The weather was quite pleasant and I saw that a lot of other people were engaging in various activities outside.\nHowever, the horrible weather in Cleveland during the winter was totally different from the weather here, so that was a total disadvantage for Cleveland. I also noticed people in the distance farming, and I saw a river too, so that must've promoted the fertility of the soil. I remembered from social studies class that the flat land in Cleveland had also been good for farming, and that was how Cleveland began to thrive. As I continued to walk in the city, I got a better view of how big the mountains really were, and they definitely were big enough to keep invaders from coming in. A long time ago, if people wanted to invade Cleveland, it would be easier than Sparta because there are no natural borders in Cleveland, which is a disadvantage.\nI kept looking around from the view of the city, and the ocean wasn't anywhere close! I could hear some people near me talking about being frustrated at how much not being able to travel by sea impeded travel and trade. That must be quite a burden, I thought, knowing that Cleveland had waterways that were very beneficial. Cleveland had waterways that went into Lake Erie, which was very important for trade and importing and exporting goods, and that made Cleveland very successful as a city. I decided to keep exploring the city of Sparta. I could hear some other people talking about how dependent on farming they were and how much they wanted to have food from the sea. I peeked around the corner of a house and saw a couple of people who seemed to have military authority. They were discussing their plan to invade a neighboring city-state and colonize them. I heard them say, \"We need more farmland and resources. What we have is not enough for our people.\" I quickly darted back from the house because I didn't want to get caught eavesdropping. I had gotten a pretty good idea of what their geography and culture were like, anyway. It seemed like both Sparta and Cleveland were able to succeed with the features of the geography of the places that they were at.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hepatitis B remains a significant cause for many liver cancer complications, resulting in untimely deaths. This chronic virus can lead to severe liver damages, including liver failure.\nAccording to the World Health Organization–, at least 60% of liver cancer cases in Africa result from late testing and treatment of Hepatitis. Despite been negligent in many parts of Africa, Hepatitis is becoming a burden and threat in Africa more than dying from HIV/AIDS or malaria.\nThe WHO Report further discloses that 325 million people are affected with Hepatitis B and C, which is ten times larger than the Global HIV epidemic adding that 3600 daily deaths occur. These deaths result from liver diseases such as liver failure and liver cancer, which is caused by the Hepatitis B virus.\nIn Africa, 60 million people are affected with Hepatitis B – resulting in 200 000 deaths yearly.\nCauses, Symptoms, And Transmission\nAccording to the NSH in the UK, most people infected in adulthood do not experience any symptoms to fight the infection unknowingly. Despite the unseen signs, infected persons can transmit the disease to others unknowingly. It can often take up to 3 months before one realizes that he/she is infected.\nNevertheless, the most common signs of Hepatitis B include (most of the time, these symptoms can be mistaken for flu, malaria, or other common illnesses).\nHigh temperature, Fever, Loss of appetite, Yellowing of skin and eyes, a general sense of feeling unwell.\nThe virus– can be transmitted sexually–especially if one is not vaccinated against the virus. It can also be infected through exposure to infected blood, body fluid–such as saliva.\nRisks, Prevention, and treatment\nChildren and infants infected with the disease less than six years are likely to develop a chronic infection.\n80-90 % who are infected during the first years develops chronicle infection\n30-50% of children who are infected at the age of 6 develop chronic diseases.\nWhen it comes t adults, less than 5% of healthy adults will develop a chronicle infection while 20-30% are chronically infected developed liver cancer.\nIt’s crucial, and it’s the mainstay for the treatment of Hepatitis B. the timely vaccine is vital, especially for newborn babies, as it will help them grow up with such a chronic disease.\nWhile short-term Hepatitis B doesn’t need specific treatment, a long-term chronic HBV will be treated with medication to keep the virus under control.\nRemember, the more information you gather about a virus, the more likely you will pay attention to unusual signs your body or the ones around you are showing.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This team of Black archivists is dedicated to documenting the Black Lives Matter movement\nThe Blackivists work to preserve the documents and oral histories of Black social movements\nHow will the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement be remembered by future generations? That's what some archivists are working to cement — and Chicago-based collective The Blackivists is among them.\nFor months, videos of tear gas, police in riot gear dispersing crowds and impassioned cries calling for an end to police brutality and racial injustice have circulated across social media. The protests first engulfed the United States, Canada and the world, after the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in May.\nThe Blackivists, formed in 2018, is a group of six Black archivists dedicated to the preservation of Black heritage. Currently, they're arming budding archivists on the ground with the tools to document the Black Lives Matter protests responsibly.\nStacie Williams, Blackivists member and the director for the Center of Digital Scholarship at The University of Chicago, says that social media shouldn't be the only record of this movement.\nShe spoke to Day 6 host Brent Bambury about why documenting the ongoing protests for archives is dangerous, yet necessary work.\nHere is part of their conversation.\nThe Black Lives Matter protests are historic because of their resonance around the world. Tell us why it's so important to catalog this moment.\nOne of the things that I think has been very instructive for me as an archivist is seeing the evidence of past resistance and past uprisings within the archives.\nAs someone who has worked in university archives, student activists have come to the archives on occasion and said, \"We heard about a sit-in that happened here in the '60s or in the '70s. And we want to know what happened and how they did it.\"\nAnd having students base their organizing work iteratively on the work that is evidenced within the archives — I think just having seen that up close is why I think it's so important. It's that history never has happened in a vacuum.\nThese events have always built on each other, over time. And because the systemic conditions haven't changed, we find ourselves still in this moment.\nWe're living in an age of digital information. We're bombarded by stuff all the time. And so much of what we've seen of these protests is being documented in real time on social media. Why isn't that enough? Why isn't that its own archive?\nAn archive is actually a space where, in theory, we are processing information; we're arranging and describing it according to a certain set of standards. And we're making it discoverable in specific types of ways and we're stewarding it for what we often think is a very long future.\nTwitter was not designed for that. None of our social media platforms were designed for that. So it just means that everything on social media is ephemeral. It's here today, gone tomorrow.\nLet's talk about what's happening on the ground level to collect and preserve as much information and experiences possible. You refer to that work as \"memory work.\"\nWe use the term \"memory work\" to be inclusive of the people who have always been the keepers of the stories, the keepers of the memory, the documents, the oral histories and their families, communities or organizations.\nWe recognize that everyone who comes to this work doesn't necessarily have a library science degree or has gone through a program. We recognize that that's not a thing that should stop people from being able to engage in this work. And we want to respect and include the people who've been doing it far longer than we have.\n.<a href=\"https://twitter.com/Wribrarian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Wribrarian</a> making it plain: “As underrepresented folks, we have not always had access to the documentation...memory work as a term respects the ways that Black people have been traditionally locked out of those spaces.” <a href=\"https://t.co/4YR4wAqjRw\">https://t.co/4YR4wAqjRw</a>—@blackivists\nWho are the people doing the memory work? What are they taking on?\nWhat we've been seeing in many instances are the activists themselves. They are documenting the movement as they are on the ground. They're documenting protests, but doing so and insisting that others do so, with a lot of attention and care and privacy for others.\nI think that the folks doing that level of documentation, where they are an active resistance against police forces wherever they happen to be at, are doing such important work.\nHow do you turn the experience into a material, into a document or into something that can be archived, something that can be accessed in the future?\nThe Blackivists are not a collecting organization. So we advise people. We provide an intellectual resource, so we can help people plan what to do with their collections with their own resources.\nThese collections then are turned into various resources that can be accessed in the future. One of those resources is something called a mapping project. Tell us how a mapping project can work in the Black Lives Matter collections.\nOne of the best examples I saw of a mapping project that's relevant to a historical uprising was a project some researchers had done at UCLA of documenting the Arab Spring uprisings. And what I learned from that project was that they paid a lot of attention to privacy and anonymizing in some ways, because the folks who are doing this type of work on the ground, they are at great risk.\nWe know that law enforcement goes through the tweets just like everyone else, but they're looking to identify organizer leaders, activist leaders, for repercussion, or in some cases, extrajudicial detainment.\nSo the Arab Spring mapping project provided me with some really instructive ways to think about how we could deal with privacy questions on social media.\nThey scrubbed avatars; they scrubbed the geolocation information if it had been listed on a tweet. Anywhere that they could, they scrubbed and anonymized so that those organizers were not at risk of reprisal.\nWhen you look back at the civil rights movement of the 1960s, do you think that it was poorly documented? Do you think that there were issues there?\nCertainly, there are arguments to be made that there are records we do not have enough of because collection development policies in archives had white supremacy issues just like everywhere else. So those histories weren't being collected or they weren't being collected in large measure.\nBut certainly, the voices that we might have been missing were those of working class protesters, because archives have always favoured people with money. And that's in archives that serve predominantly white users or in predominantly white institutions — and in, say, minority serving institutions or historically Black colleges and universities.\nBut with the Black Lives Matter movement and with digital technology that is somewhat democratizing, we've seen that it's been effective in exposing police brutality.\nDo you think that this movement will be more effective in taking on the institutional erasure of black history that you just described?\nAs a black woman, I want for the answer to be yes. I want this to be the movement that is the most effective that we've ever seen in our lifetimes — and in taking on systemic racism and being able to identify and amplify narratives to make a more complete part of our history, not just through the lens of trauma or through the lens of our luminaries, but through the people who actively make up the fabric of this country every day.\nWritten and produced by Samraweet Yohannes. Q&A edited for length and clarity.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Celebrate Cheese During National Dairy Month\nPeople around the world have a love affair with cheese, and it’s easy to see why! Cheese is a flavorful and\nhealthful addition to many dishes. Most cheeses are a good or excellent source of calcium, a nutrient that many\npeople are lacking in their diet, and cheese also provides other essential nutrients like phosphorus and high-quality\nprotein. These three nutrients are particularly important to help build and maintain healthy bones.\nWith so many varieties to choose from, there is something to please everyone’s palate, and cheese can fit into most healthy eating plans. Those watching sodium in their diet, can choose softer, less-aged cheeses as they generally require less salt than harder, aged varieties. There are also cheeses available that are lower in sodium and fat available. Even people with lactose intolerance can enjoy cheese by choosing natural, harder cheeses like Cheddar, Colby, Swiss and Monterey Jack.\nCheese is a complex food made with just a few simple ingredients.\nDid you know?\nIt takes 10 pounds of milk to make just 1 pound of cheese\nThere are more than 300 different cheeses in the U.S. and 2000 varieties in the world\nCheddar cheese is the most popular cheese in America while Mozzarella is the most popular globally\nCheese is the 2nd largest source of dietary calcium for Americans\nThe most popular cheese recipe in the United States is “macaroni and cheese”\nSome varieties of cheese like mozzarella, cheddar, Swiss and American, may help prevent tooth as it promotes saliva flow which leads to the elimination of sugar and acids form the mouth\n1 ½ oz. natural cheese or 2 oz. processed cheese is considered a serving about 4 dice-size cubes\nTips for Serving and Storing Cheese\nTake cheese out of the refrigerator approximately 30 minutes before serving for best flavor and aroma\nCreate a delicious cheese platter by choosing up to 5 cheeses that differ in texture, flavor, size and shape\nArrange the cheeses from mild to strong and soft to hard and provide separate knives for each cheese to keep the flavors distinct\nChoose a simple cracker without excess salt or flavors to enhance the flavor of the cheese(s)\nChoose crusty breads for mild cheeses or a heavy fruit or nut bread with an aged or more complex selection when serving bread\nServe cheese with your favorite fresh fruit\nGrapes can be served with almost any cheese\nPears go great with blue cheese, gorgonzola or aged Gouda\nFresh berries go nicely with a soft ripened cheese such as brie or camembert\nFresh or dried figs pair deliciously with Spanish Manchego or Reggiano Parmesan\nStore cut cheese, tightly wrapped, in the refrigerator, away from other aromatic foods as it absorbs other flavors, and also loses both flavor and moisture when exposed to air\nCooking with Cheese\nIt is easier to shred or grate natural cheese when cold\nFour ounces of ungrated cheese yields one cup when grated\nWhen preparing sauces and soups, cook over low to medium heat and add toward the end of preparation as cooking over high heat, or for long periods of time, will cause the cheese to separate\nFor casseroles and baked dishes, sprinkle the grated/shredded cheese over the dish the last ten minutes of baking\nCheese can be enjoyed as an appetizer/snack or at any meal, and here’s a few recipe ideas.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "If you’re like most teens, you probably get the majority of your news and other important information online—through social media and websites. Because just about anyone with a computer can publish web content (and make it seem believable!), it’s important to look at everything you’re seeing with a critical eye. This is especially true of information related to your health and safety.\nHere are some ways to make sure that you’re not falling for “fake news” or other misinformation online:\n- Check the source. Is the site name or the web address unusual (for instance, does it end with “.co” instead of “.com”)? If it’s not a trusted, valid source—like a well-known national news outlet, an .edu site, or a .gov site—it may be suspect.\n- Check the writing. Does the writing contain words in all caps, and/or use exaggerated language like “The ONE THING you aren’t supposed to know” or “You won’t believe what happens next”? If so, it may be clickbait— attention-getting content whose main purpose is to get people to click on it.\n- Check your gut. Fake news and clickbait often try to elicit strong emotions to reel you in. Does the information make you extremely angry, scared, or excited? Does it seem too good (or too bad) to be true? Dig deeper! Check multiple sources before you believe what you’re reading.\nHere are some other useful resources to help you think critically about online media.\nGoogle Safety Center\nHelpful resources for digital safety from Google and their partners, including information about online privacy, avoiding scams, and how to be a good digital citizen.\nPBS NewsHour: Media Literacy\nVideos and articles related to media literacy—the ability to analyze and understand how, why, and for whom media messages are being created and used.\nSnopes is a well-known, reliable resource for checking (and busting!) internet rumors, “urban myths,” and other widely-circulated stories.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Climate change isn’t all bad. Depending on where you do your reading, you may only see the downside. But there are upsides. This post examines the three main benefits – warmer winters, longer growing seasons and more fossil fuels.\nI’m writing this post because of the reader survey from the end of last year. One of you didn’t feel able to answer the question on how bad is climate change because you didn’t know about the upsides.\nThere are three main benefits as far as I can see. The first two are only benefits in the short-term; the last will keep on giving for centuries to come.\nFirstly, at the moment in most of the developed world, there are more weather related deaths in the winter than in the summer. A warmer world will mean that the average winter will be milder than before, and so cold related deaths will decrease in the short-term and in higher latitudes, according to the IPCC. There are some important caveats, of course. Excess winter deaths are higher in milder countries at the moment, so maybe it could go the other way. And climate change brings with it much more variability, such as the chilling vortex over the US at the moment, which could stretch our ability to cope. By the way, the frozen US was caused by a very weak and wobbly jet stream allowing a chunk of polar air to descend deep into the south, all as a result of a warmer world. And of course the lower latitudes are stuffed.\nThe second benefit is longer growing seasons, again for the higher latitudes. That’s the UK, by the way. On average, spring will start sooner and summer will be longer over the next few decades, so we will be able to grow more food. In fact, in the short-term, there should be an overall global increase in food productivity, again according to the IPCC. Longer term it goes the other way, of course, and the lower latitudes are again the losers throughout. And in some years, due to flooded summers or droughts, we will have to wait for the next year to eat.\nThe final benefit I’d like to talk about is the receding ice-sheets exposing more land and sea, for food growing, travel and of course for fossil fuel extraction. Greenland, here we come, and we can start drilling in the Arctic. Like a smoking amputee reaching for another packet of cigarettes because of their unrelenting addiction.\nSo, all in all, in the next few decades, the richer people in the more northerly or southerly parts of the developed world will probably benefit from some domestic improvements. Will we be better off in that time, as the rest of the world withers away?\nAnd will we be able to enjoy our spoils, with the knowledge that we have pushed the world out of its natural cycles into something new and unknown, with the inevitability that it will be coming to get us when we are old and our children are struggling on?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Alfalfa contains a wealth of nutrients that have been shown to be beneficial to plant growth. Alfalfa can be used in several forms – meal, cubes or pellets that are broadcast in the garden, or as a tea that is used as a foliar spray or soil drench. Alfalfa is a component of biological gardening.\nAlfalfa (Medicago sativa) is a perennial herbaceous legume that grows to about 3-feet in height. It has blue-violet flowers that bloom from July to September. There are species found in the wild all over central Asia and into Siberia. As with other legumes, alfalfa has the ability to ‘fix’ nitrogen in the soil. Because it is known to improve soil structure (tilth) and control weeds in subsequent crops, alfalfa is an integral component of many crop rotation plans.\nAlfalfa is classified as a ‘high water usage plant’ because it requires 18 – 36 inches of water per season, but alfalfa is resistant to drought because its roots penetrate deeply into the soil where it can reach all available water. Individual tap roots may reach depths of 20-feet, but the effective depth of feeder roots is approximately 6-feet. It is this characteristic that makes alfalfa so valuable to biological gardeners – the deep roots reach and absorb minerals and nutrients that are not available at the surface.\nAlfalfa in history\nRemains of alfalfa more than 6000 years old were found in Iran. The oldest writings about alfalfa are from Turkey, dating 1300 B.C. Alfalfa was probably domesticated near Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey, the Caucasus regions, and other regions in Asia Minor.\nAlfalfa was important to the early Babylonian cultures and to the Persians, Greeks, and Romans because of its importance for feeding horses used in war. The Arabs discovered alfalfa in Iran and dubbed the plant the ‘Father of All Foods’. They fed it to their horses claiming it made them swift and strong. The name ‘alfalfa’ comes from Arabic, Persian, and Kashmiri words meaning ‘best horse fodder’ and ‘horse power.’ The modern word alfalfa is derived from the Arabic word alfisfisa, meaning ‘fresh fodder’.\nAs early as 490 B.C. Roman writers described alfalfa as feed for horses and other domesticated animals. It was introduced into the eastern United States in 1736 and is our oldest introduced forage crop.\nEarly colonists, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, grew alfalfa on a few acres. However, it was not widely grown in this country until the California Gold Rush of 1849. Horses, beef, and milk cows were valuable, and everything was animal-powered. From California, alfalfa spread eastward to Nevada, Utah, Kansas, and Nebraska.\nAlfalfa is one of the most nutritious cultivated forage crops in the US. Today, alfalfa is grown on 23 million acres from coast to coast and is the nation’s fourth largest acreage crop.\nOut of every livestock feed available, alfalfa produces the greatest amount of protein per acre. It has a very high yield potential compared to other forage crops. It is low in fiber and high in energy when cut prior to early bloom, and is an excellent source of protein, vitamins, and minerals. It is used primarily as a hay crop and is a primary component in dairy cattle rations and feed for horses, beef cattle, sheep, and milk goats.\nAlfalfa is so valuable that it is used for human consumption as well. We are all familiar with the alfalfa sprouts used in salads and sandwiches. It is available from health food stores and herbalists in leaf form, capsules, powdered forms and as a tea. It has been combined with dandelion and kelp extracts as a health tonic and is used to treat a number of conditions. As with all herbals, moderation and education should be part of the program.\nHow it works in the garden\nTests on dry alfalfa reveal that it contains an average of 3.75 –5.5% nitrogen, 0.75 – 3.5% potassium, 0.3 – 0.7% phosphorus, 1 – 2% calcium, 0.30 – 1% magnesium, 0.2 – 0.5% sulfur. Alfalfa also contains important micronutrients – manganese, iron, boron, copper, and zinc – a high concentration of Vitamin A and a number of amino acids. A complete list is available at the end of this article.\nIn addition to these valuable nutrients, alfalfa contains a powerful growth stimulant – Triacontanol. Triacontanol is a potent plant growth hormone. This naturally occurring stimulant will significantly boost the growth of your plants. In fact, alfalfa has been used as plant stimulant for more than 50 years.\nAlfalfa tea will result in superior plant growth and greater bloom production. Plants that are fed alfalfa tea often have a greatly expanded root system over untreated specimens. They may break dormancy earlier and may have a noticeable increase in the thickness and number of leaves.\nDaylily and iris growers report a doubling of the number and size of flower buds, flowers and seeds. Orchid and rose growers use alfalfa tea as a foliar spray. Delphinium and hosta growers have found that the Epsom salts included in this brew help to ward off slugs. Vegetable growers report more production by weight, particularly in leafy vegetables. Tomato growers dilute the tea with water 10:1 and use it as a constant drip feed.\nAlfalfa supports the growth of beneficial microbes in the soil; particularly beneficial bacteria. Since it is more beneficial to bacteria than to fungi, if you have had problems with an excess of mushrooms or other fungi in your biologically active beds, using alfalfa can diminish their levels somewhat. Alfalfa is inexpensive and can be found at local feed or pet stores. There are advantages and disadvantages to each form available.\nAlfalfa meal will breakdown in garden soil more rapidly than pellets or cubes. However, it is very light and dusty. The dust is non-toxic but any dusty material can create respiratory problems if inhaled. Use a mask to cover your nose and mouth when you apply meal, even on a calm day. Stay upwind of prevailing breezes and broadcast it as low as possible to the soil.\nAlfalfa pellets are similar to those that are fed to animals such as rabbits. They break down fairly quickly, especially if applied before a rain storm or deep irrigation. The pellets are virtually dust free and can be applied without the alfalfa dust getting into your lungs.\nAlfalfa cubes are similar to those fed to stock animals such as cows. Alfalfa cubes are not the best choice for garden use. They are larger than the pellets, making them more difficult to spread across the garden surface evenly. They will take longer to break down.\nIn general, all dry alfalfa products should be mixed into the soil. This will promote more rapid breakdown making alfalfa’s nutrients and growth stimulant more readily available to your plants.\nOne word of caution – if you have trouble with wild rabbits, pellets and cubes will only make that problem worse. Mice will also forage on the pellets, but mice seldom forage on your plants. Rabbits, on the other hand, are a destructive garden pest.\nAlfalfa tea is a special brew that you can make and apply as a drench directly to your garden soil or use as a foliar spray. Alfalfa tea is the quickest and most effective way to supply alfalfa’s nutrients and growth stimulator to your plants. The tea can be brewed in small batches in a pail or bucket, or can be brewed in quantity in a large drum or trash can. There are several ways to brew alfalfa tea.\nHere is one method for a 30-gallon batch:\nYou will need:\n- 32-gallon plastic trash barrel with a fitted lid\n- Alfalfa pellets or cubes\n- Epsom Salt\n- Iron Chelate\n- Fish Emulsion\nWe recommend Brute® by Rubbermaid because these trash barrels are so sturdy. Place the barrel in a convenient location on a flat, sturdy surface. Water weighs 8 pounds per gallon and you will not be able to move it once it is full.\nPlace 24 cups of alfalfa pellets or cubes in the barrel and fill it with water. Let this sit for 24 hours then stir. Repeat stirring for the next three days to completely dissolve the pellets. If you have used cubes, you may have to stir more than once a day. Keep the lid on tight to prevent mosquitoes from breeding.\nThe tea will be ready in three days, but you can leave this tea to brew for up to a week. It may begin to bubble. This is just a sign of fermentation and it is not harmful to your product. Your nose will tell you when it is ready since it has a distinct barnyard smell. This is only temporary. If you can stand using fish emulsion on your plants, you can stand using alfalfa tea.\nWhen you are ready to use the tea, add (2) cups of Epsom salt, (3) Tbls of iron chelate and (1) cup of fish emulsion to the barrel and stir thoroughly. Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate which improves nitrogen uptake and increases the production of chlorophyll. Iron chelate is an organic substance that holds micronutrients in a form that can be absorbed by plants. Fish emulsion is a fertilizer made from fish byproducts.\nMaking smaller batches\nDon’t need 30 gallons at a time? Use the ratio of (4) cups of alfalfa to 5 gallons of water. When ready to use, stir in ¼ cup of Epsom salt, (2) Tsp of iron chelate, and (1) Tbls fish emulsion.\nUsing alfalfa tea\nBefore applying the tea, put on some old clothes. You may splash a little of the brew onto your clothing. It is not harmful, but it your friends may not want to socialize with you while you are wearing alfalfa tea.\nTake a small or convenient size pail and scoop into the tea barrel after stirring one last time and apply to your plants. Apply up to a gallon around a large clump of bulbs or perennials. For smaller clumps, reduce the amount by about one-half.\nIf you want to use alfalfa tea as a foliar spray, you will need to strain it through several layers of cheesecloth or muslin. An old pillowcase or piece of a bed sheet works well. The solids you strain out can be broadcast in the garden and scratched in.\nApply the tea once per month in the spring and summer. For repeat flowering plants apply after the first flush of flowers to encourage the next flush of blooms.\nStop applying the tea in late August for plants you want to begin hardening off for the winter. Stop applying in early October for all other plants except for winter-blooming annuals.\nReduce or eliminate the Epsom salts in later batches. Epsom salt encourages new canes to break on roses and berries. You do not want to encourage this new growth that could be burned by an early frost.\nAlfalfa nutrient information:\n* Triacontanol (growth stimulant)\n* Vitamin A (high concentration)\n* Pantothenic Acid\n* Folic Acid\n* Crude proteins (16 – 25% in dry alfalfa)\nAmino acids (% in alfalfa meal):\n* Tryptophan, 0.3 %\n* Aspartic Acid, 2.3%\n* Threonine, 1.0 %\n* Serine, 1.0%\n* Glutamic Acid, 2.7%\n* Proline, 1.2%\n* Glycine, 1.1%\n* Alanine, 1.1%\n* Cystine, 0.2%\n* Valine, 1.0%\n* Methionine, 0.3%\n* Isoleucine, 0.8%\n* Leucine, 1.6%\n* Tyrosine, 0.5%\n* Phenylalanine, 1.0%\n* Histidine, 0.4%\n* Lysine, Total, 1.1%\n* Arginine, 1.1%\nMinerals (contained in dry alfalfa):\n* Nitrogen 3.75-5.5 %\n* Potassium .75 – 3.5 %\n* Phosphorus .3 – .7%\n* Calcium 1 – 2 %\n* Magnesium .30 – 1 %\n* Sulphur .2 – .5 %\n* Manganese 30-200 ppm\n* Iron 20-250 ppm\n* Boron 20-80 ppm\n* Copper 5-20 ppm\n* Zinc 20-70 ppm", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Glaucoma is a very dangerous condition which results in blindness. It is the most common cause of blindness in cats and dogs. Cats of various breeds are susceptible to Glaucoma and as such care should be taken if one finds any early symptoms in your pet.\nWhat is Glaucoma?\nFor this, one has to understand the working of the eye and its aqueous humor. This fluid maintains the shape of the eye as well as nourishes it. But for smooth functioning of the eye, the amount of aqueous humor produced should be equal to that which is drained out so that a balance is produced. Sometimes there is an excess of this liquid which is produced or some problems generate by way of blockage due to which the draining procedure is reduced. This results in a imbalance resulting in increase of pressure in the eye causing it to bulge or get enlarged. This pressure can destroy the retina and optic nerve causing permanent damage to the eye which can result in blindness. This disorder is called Glaucoma. There are two types of Glaucoma found in cats, Primary and Secondary Glaucoma. The first type i.e. primary Glaucoma is mostly caused due to inheritance tendency in which there is a problem in the drainage of aqueous humor from birth. This may cause the disorder of Glaucoma in later stages of life of a cat. This is a rare disorder and is found in only 5 to 10% of the Glaucoma affected cats.\nThe other type of Glaucoma i.e. secondary Glaucoma is basically the most common of the disorder. It is caused due to side-effects of some other disease or disorder in the cat. Various diseases can cause the blockage of the fluid aqueous humor from draining out. In this, inflammation is the most common cause. Inflammation results in debris which then blocks the flow of the fluid. Another cause of secondary Glaucoma are tumors caused inside the eye which block the smooth process of the flow. There are also other causes such as trauma during injury or lens laxation i.e. dislocation of the eye lens.\nSymptoms of Glaucoma – The symptoms of Glaucoma in cats can be easily seen externally. The first indication is that of Red eye. The eyes of the cat appear red and this goes not increasing as the disease advances. The cat yells a lot as the eye becomes painful. You may often find the cat squinting again and again, the cornea becomes cloudy. Some other symptoms are taring or dilated pupils which does not react to light. Blindness in the eye is the last symptom. At times green or yellow discharge from the eye is also seen.\nDiagnosis of Glaucoma in cats – Diagnosing of Glaucoma in cats can be done by the veterinary doctor and results may be identified if it is a primary or a secondary Glaucoma. It is done by measuring introcullar pressure (IOP). For this instruments such as Schiotztonometer or Tonopen is used.\nTreatment of Glaucoma in cats –\n- Hospitalization is required for treatment of Glaucoma in cats.\n- Medications are prescribed to be given for removing the blockages caused due to above mentioned causes & for the smooth drainage of excessive fluid. These medications are in the form of eye-drops.\n- The other option is to go in for surgery to reduce the process of manufacturing of fluid. For this, a process called cryotherapy i.e. freezing of the cells is used or else laser surgery may be the other option. Surgery kills the cells in front section of the eye.\n- Surgical removal of the eye is the last resort for treatment. If the cat has lost its vision completely, but if the pain continues, it is advised to remove the eye and if required a prosthetic ball can be fitted in. The glaucoma can be removed thus curing the disorder. This process is called as enucleation.\nPrognosis – Glaucoma is a very common disease found in cats of various breeds. Treatment of Glaucoma is very expensive as the cat has to undergo surgery and hospitalization. As such frequent and periodic checkups should be made along with eye readings if symptoms of Glaucoma are found. Normally if one eye is infected, the other eye may soon catch up the infection. Also apply topical or oral medications as directed at the first signs of the disorder. Lastly, it can be said that your cat is valuable to you, please take its proper care.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Iron constitutes about five per cent of the Earth's crust and is the fourth most abundant element in the crust.\n98% of the iron ore mined is used to make steel\nSteel represents around 95% of all metals produced\nThe biggest producer of steel by far is China (1607 million metric tonnes in 2013), followed by the EU (165), Japan (110), USA (87) and India (81)\nSteel use per capita increased from 150kg in 2001 to 220kg in 2010 (Wsteel Assoc)\n51% of global steel is used for construction (Wsteel Assoc\n6.5% of CO2 emissions derive from iron and steel production (IEA 2010)\n1 Mineral Extraction\nIron doesn’t occur naturally. Being highly reactive, it combines easily with other minerals to form ores. Those with the highest iron content are found near the surface of the earth and are relatively easy to mine.\nThe principal iron ores are hematite (Fe2O3) and magnetite (Fe3O4).\nMost iron ore is extracted through opencast mines.\nTo be economically viable for mining, iron ore must contain at least 20% iron.\nThe three major sources of iron are China (23%), Australia (18%) and Brazil (18%). (2011 figures)\nWhere to find it\nIron ore mining in Western Australia\nIron ore is converted into various types of iron through several processes. The most common process is the use of a blast furnace to produce pig iron which is about 92-94% iron and 3-5% carbon with smaller amounts of other elements. Pig iron has only limited uses, and most of this iron goes on to a steel mill where it is converted into various steel alloys by further reducing the carbon content and adding other elements such as manganese and nickel to give the steel specific properties.\nLimestone is calcium carbonate (CaCO3). It is mainly composed of the skeletal remains of marine organisms.\nGeologically, limestone occurs as a sedimentary layer over bedrock. As such it is relatively easy to extract through quarrying.\nLimestone is removed from the quarry, crushed and transported to steel mills.\nCoke is produced from coal. The coal is heated, or ‘carbonised’ in an oven until it becomes coke. It is then removed from the oven and cooled before use in the blast furnace. The coal gas produced during carbonisation is collected and used as a fuel in the manufacturing process while by-products such as tar, benzole and sulphur are extracted for further refining.\n2 Manufacture of Iron\nCoke, ore and sinter are fed, or ‘charged’, into the top of the blast furnace, together with limestone. A hot air blast, from which the furnace gets its name, is injected through nozzles, called ‘tuyeres’, in the base of the furnace. The blast fans the heat in the furnace to white-hot intensity, and the iron in the ore and sinter is melted out to form a pool of molten metal in the bottom, or hearth, of the furnace. The limestone combines with impurities and molten rock from the iron ore and sinter, forming a liquid ‘slag' which, being lighter than the metal, floats on top of it.\nFe2O3 (iron ore) + 3 CO (carbon monoxide) >>> 2Fe(iron) + 3 CO2 (carbon dioxide)\nThe molten iron from the bottom of the furnace can be used as cast iron.\nCast iron is very runny when it is molten and doesn't shrink much when it solidifies. It is therefore ideal for making castings - hence its name. However, it is very impure, containing about 4% of carbon. This carbon makes it very hard, but also very brittle.\n3 Manufacture of Steel\nMethods for manufacturing steel have evolved significantly since industrial production began in the late 19th century. Modern methods, however, are still based around the Bessemer Process, namely, how to most efficiently use oxygen to lower the carbon content in iron.\nToday, steel making comes from both recycled as well as from raw materials. Two processes:\nBasic Oxygen Steelmaking (BOS)/ Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) and\nElectric Arc Furnace (EAF) account for virtually all steel production.\nPrimary steel production\nPrimary steelmaking methods differ between BOS and EAF methods. BOS methods add recycled scrap steel to the molten iron in a converter. At high temperatures, oxygen is blown through the metal, lowering silicon, manganese and phosphorous levels and lowering carbon content to between 0-1.5%. The addition of chemical cleaning agents called fluxes help to reduce the sulfur and phosphorous levels.\nEAF methods, alternatively, derive from 90 -100% recycled steel scrap and passed high power electric arcs (temperatures up to 1650 °C) to melt the metal and convert it to high quality steel.\nSecondary steel production\nSecondary steelmaking involves treating the molten steel produced from both BOS and EAF routes to adjust the steel composition. This is done by adding or removing certain elements and/or manipulating the temperature and production environment.\nThe molten steel is cast into a cooled mould causing a thin steel shell to solidify. The shell strand is withdrawn using guided rolls and fully cooled and solidified. The strand is cut into desired lengths depending on application; slabs for flat products (plate and strip), blooms for sections (beams), billets for long products (wires) or thin strips.\nThe steel that is cast is then formed into various shapes, often by hot rolling, a process that eliminates cast defects and achieves the required shape and surface quality. Hot rolled products are divided into flat products, long products, seamless tubes, and specialty products.\nManufacturing, Fabrication and Finishing\nFinally, secondary forming techniques give the steel its final shape and properties. These techniques include:\nshaping (e.g. cold rolling)\nmachining (e.g. drilling)\njoining (e.g. welding)\ncoating (e.g. galvanising)\nheat treatment (e.g. tempering)\nsurface treatment (e.g. carburising)\n4 Types of Steel\nCarbon steels contain trace amounts of alloying elements and account for 90% of total steel production. Carbon steels can be further categorised into three groups depending on their carbon content:\nLow Carbon Steels/Mild Steels contain up to 0.3% carbon\nMedium Carbon Steels contain 0.3 – 0.6% carbon\nHigh Carbon Steels contain more than 0.6% carbon\nAlloy steels contain alloying elements (e.g. manganese, silicon, nickel, titanium, copper, chromium and aluminium) in varying proportions in order to manipulate the steel's properties, such as its hardenability, corrosion resistance, strength and ductility along with its abilities to be formed and welded\nstainless steel pipes\nStainless steels generally contain between 10-20% chromium as the main alloying element and are valued for high corrosion resistance. Stainless steels can be divided into three groups based on their crystalline structure:\n• Austenitic: Austenitic steels generally contain 18% chromium, 8% nickel and less than 0.8% carbon. They form the largest portion of the global stainless steel market. Typical use of austenitic steel is in masonry support systems.\n• Ferritic: Ferritic steels are weaker and less ductile than austenitic steels. They contain trace amounts of nickel, 12-17% chromium, less than 0.1% carbon. They are prone to ‘pitting’ so if appearance is important, their use tends to be limited to internal applications such as shop fitting.\n• Martensitic: Martensitic steels are strong but brittle and harder to weld and shape. They contain 11-17% chromium, less than 0.4% nickel and up to 1.2% carbon. Though cheaper than austenitic steels, their low resistance to corrosion limits the range of suitable applications.\n• Duplex Steels: Are a mixture of austentic and ferritic which makes them suitable for applications where corrosion resistance and strength are equally important .\nAverage energy in the production of primary steel: 18.68 GJ/t\nAverage CO2 intensity: 1.77 t CO2/t\nBasic Oxygen Steelmaking (BOS): 70% of total production energy\nElectric Arc Furnace (EAF): 30% of total production energy\nElectric Arc Furnace in operation\nEnergy sources in producing primary steel:\n50% coking coal\n5% natural gas\n5% other gasses\n(source World Steel Association)\n7 Recycling & Reuse\n42% of crude steel produced is recycled material\nRe-melting proportion of steel scrap is constrained by availability. Availability can sometimes be defined as cost effective recovery.\nIron and steel are the world's most recycled materials, and among the easiest materials to reprocess, as they can be separated magnetically from the waste stream. Recycling is via a steelworks: scrap is either re-melted in an electric arc furnace (90-100% scrap), or used as part of the charge in a Basic Oxygen Furnace (around 25% scrap). Any grade of steel can be recycled to top quality new metal, with no 'downgrading' from prime to lower quality materials as steel is recycled repeatedly.\nRecovery and reuse in construction\nGlobally around 85% of construction steel is currently recovered from demolition (sourceWSA) (UK 96% source steelconstruction.info)\nRe-use of structural steel\nSteel reuse is any process where end-of-life steel is not re-melted but rather enters a new product use phase.\nSteel buildings and products are intrinsically demountable. Easily re-usable components include:\nPiles (sheet and bearing piles)\nStructural members including hollow sections\nLight gauge products such as purlins and rails.\nDesign for reuse\nTo facilitate greater reuse it is important that designers not only use steel but also do what they can to optimise future reuse. Steps that the designer can take to maximise the opportunity for reusing structural steel include:\nEnd plate beam to column and beam to beam connections\nUse bolted connections in preference to welded joints to allow the structure to be dismantled during deconstruction\nUse standard connection details including bolt sizes and the spacing of holes\nEnsure easy and permanent access to connections\nWhere feasible, try to ensure that the steel is free from coatings or coverings that will prevent visual assessment of the condition of the steel.\nMinimise the use of fixings to structural steel elements that require welding, drilling holes, or fixing with Hilti nails; use clamped fittings where possible\nIdentify the origin and properties of the component for example by bar-coding or e-tagging or stamping and keep an inventory of products\nUse long-span beams as they are more likely to allow flexibility of use and to be reusable by cutting the beam to a new length. (source: SteelConstruction.info)\n8 The environmental impact of steel production\nSteel production has a number of impacts on the environment, including air emissions (CO, SOx, NOx, PM2), wastewater contaminants, hazardous wastes, and solid wastes. The major environmental impacts from integrated steel mills are from coking and iron-making.\nVirtually all of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with steel production are from the carbon dioxide emissions related to energy consumption.\nEmissions to air\nCoke production is one of the major pollution sources from steel production. Air emissions such as coke oven gas, naphthalene, ammonium compounds, crude light oil, sulfur and coke dust are released from coke ovens.\nEmissions to water\nWater emissions come from the water used to cool coke after it has finished baking. Quenching water becomes contaminated with coke breezes and other compounds. While the volume of contaminated water can be great, quenching water is fairly easy to reuse. Most pollutants can be removed by filtration.\nSlag, the limestone and iron ore impurities collected at the top of the molten iron, make up the largest portion of iron-making by-products. Sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide are volatized and captured in air emissions control equipment and the residual slag is sold to the construction industry. While this is not a pollution prevention technique, the solid waste does not reach landfills.\nGaseous emissions and metal dust are the most prominent sources of waste from electric arc furnaces.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Drumbeats and bugles resound through the buildings. The sounds \"scatter the congregation\" and disturb the bridegroom, the farmer, the city traffic, the sleepers, the talkers, the singers, and the lawyers. All these people hear the war cry, but the timid, the old, the children, and the mothers do not react positively to the call. The poet exhorts the drums and bugles to drown their dissenting voices. The drumbeat is a symbol of war and it creates highly passionate, even extremist responses; Whitman's poems reflect these emotions. The verse is characterized by a rapidity of movement which reflects the poet's enthusiasm, ardor, and passion. The poem also suggests Whitman's faith not only in the continuous cycle of history but also in the process of mystic evolution in the universe — that is, that the world will continue to progress in all spheres of life.\nThe poet expresses the spontaneous reaction of the North in the early years of the Civil War, following the South's attack on Fort Sumter in 1861. The three stanzas show the steady development of the theme. The poet feels the cause of war was justified by the events of that period. The drums, he says, should be able even \"to shake the dead.\"", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The refusal of the government from the reforms policy and the growth of the reaction provoked the appearance of the first Russian revolutionary movement, which was composed of the progressive-adjusted militaries from the liberal layers of the nobility. The patriotic war was one of the sources of origin of 'the free thinking in Russia\".\nIn 1814-1815 were created secret officers organizations (the Union of Russian knights, the Sacred artel, the Semenov's artel). Their founders (М.F.Orlov, M.A.Dmitriev-Mamonov, A. and M.Muravyevs) counted inadmissible the preservation of the serf condition of peasants and the soldiers who accomplished civil feat during Napoleon's invasion.\nIn February 1816, the Union of rescue was created in St Petersburg. 30 patriotically adjusted young militaries entered that centralized secret organization. In one year the Union \"status\", the program and the charter were approved, after that the organization began to be called 'the Society of true and faithful children of the Fatherland\". The purpose of the struggle was the destruction of the serfdom and the establishment of the constitutional system. These requirements were supposed to be presented at the moment of change of the monarchs on the throne.\nIn 1818 a special commission (S.P.Trubetskoy, M. Muraviov, P.P.Koloshin) elaborated a new charter named of the color of the book-cover \" he Green Book\". The first secret society was liquidated and the Union of prosperity was created. Ultimate goals of the Union were the political and social revolution.\nSoon in the Union of prosperity there were about 200 members. Educational societies of semi-legal character were formed around the Union. However the dissatisfaction of the educational activity in conditions of growth of peasants' revolts, the agitations in the army and the revolutionary events in Europe conducted to the radicalization of a part of the Union.\nIn January 1821, the congress of the Radical board took place in Moscow. It declared the Union of prosperity \"disbanded\", in order to facilitate the elimination of the \"untrustworthy\" members acting against violent measures. Immediately after the end of the congress, the secret Northern and Southern societies uniting supporters of armed revolution was created and prepared for the revolt of 1825.\nAfter the liquidation of the Union of prosperity, a new secret society at once was created, the Northern, which basic nucleus was initiated by N.Muraviov, N.Turgenev, M.Lunin, S.Trubetskoy, E.Obolensky and I.Pushchin. It was possible to judge the program of Northern society through the constitutional project of Muraviov. Russia became a constitutional-monarchic state. The Federal division of the country into 15 \"powers\" was introduced. The power was shared by the legislative, executive and judicial. The supreme legislative organ was the two-chamber National veche, elected for a period of 6 years on the basis of a high property qualification. The two-chamber veche, elected for a period of 4 years, was the legislative power.The executive power belonged to the Imperator.The judicial power was in the hands of the Supreme Court. The Class build was cancelled, proclaiming civil and political freedoms.\nThe project of Muraviov was discussed in the Northern society, but did not become the document expressing views of all the members of society. A more radical current, leaded by Kondraty Fedorovich Ryleev (1795-1826) became more and more powerful. K.F.Ryleev adhered to republican views.\nThe most intense activity of the Decembrists organizations took place in 1824-1825: the preparation for the opened armed revolt was going on, a great work was being done for the coordination of political platforms of the Northern and Southern societies. In 1824 the decision to prepare and carry out the unification of the congress and a military revolution the summer of 1826, was accepted. In the second half of 1825, the forces of Decembrists increased: the Southern society of unified Slavs joined the Vasilkovskaya board; it was created in 1818 as a secret political \"Society of the first agreement\"; in 1823 it was transformed to the Society of the United Slavs, which intended to create a powerful republican democratic federation of Slavic peoples. In May 1821 the Emperor knew about the plot of Decembrists: they informed about the plans and the structure of the Union of prosperity. But Alexander I just said two words: \"It is not my duty to execute them\".", "label": "No"}
{"text": "WOMAN FIGHTER after CAPTURE, during the WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING\nThe triple-image photo was taken by a Nazi soldier during the time of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, each frame probably taken seconds apart. These Jewish young men and women, children and teens among them, were non-professionally trained. Armed with a small number of handguns, a few rifles and \"Molotov cocktails\" (gasoline-in-bottle bombs), they were no match for the German's machine guns, planes, tanks and flamethrowers.\nNevertheless, it took longer for the Germans to defeat 600-800 Jewish civilian fighters than it took the professional German Army to defeat the national armies of several European countries at the beginning of World War II.\nIn controlling their\nown deaths and by killing some of their Nazi murderers, these Jewish Holocaust\nvictims were able to die with dignity, an act of monumental importance\nand meaning for them. The Nazis had systematically stripped not only life,\nbut human dignity from so many of the victims of their brutal fascist\ncampaign of racial cleansing.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This course will introduce students to Screenwriting Adaptation techniques, focusing primarily on the challenges of adapting “true stories” pulled from various non-fiction sources. The class will address the ethics of adaptation, questions and techniques surrounding the need to fictionalize truth for dramatic purposes, as well as touching on the differences between fictional and nonfictional original materials. Students will be exposed to various contemporary non-fiction adaptations, and will write a short film (under 15 pages) and one longer project (30 pages).\nSample reading list:\nAndy Bienan and Kimberly Pierce, Boys Don’t Cry (Script)\nTruman Capote, In Cold Blood\nJoshua Morrison, Maria Full of Grace (Script)\nLynn Barber, An Education\nLinda Hutcheon, A Theory of Adaptation\nSee instructor for complete list\nWeekly participation in table-top readings and critiques of peer materials. Active participation in film clip and screenplay text analyses. Completion of first screenplay. Completion and revision of final short screenplay (20-30 minutes). 60 pages of reading per week.\nPrerequisites and Restrictions:\nInterested students complete a creative writing application by attaching a statement about why they want to take the course and, optionally, a 3-4 page creative writing sample in any genre.\nThis course is open to both advanced and beginning students of screenwriting. All students should purchase or have access to Final Draft or equivalent screenwriting software.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The verse actually states (Genesis 2:17), “Ume’etz hada’at tov va’ra lo tochal mimmenu ki beyom achalcha mimmenu mot tamut – And of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you must not eat, for on the day you eat from it you shall surely die.”\nThe Midrash (Bereishit Rabbah 16:10) notes that the verse concludes with the words mot tamut, a repetitive phrase from which we derive that the infraction of eating of the fruit of that tree will cause death for Adam and Eve as well as death for all their future generations.\nThus, the violation of this commandment meant that this mitzva was lost forever, and it altered the course of history in that death was introduced, counter to G-d’s original plan for humanity.\nHowever, since man did not withstand the evil impulse to violate this one mitzva, he caused the circumstance whereby death comes at the end of man’s days, and he has to leave the living behind.\nThe Midrash on Parashat Toldot (Bereishit Rabbah 65:4) relates that Abraham requested signs of old age so that we may be able to differentiate between the young and the old, and the young would be able to honor their elders accordingly. Isaac requested pain and suffering so that the harsh judgment meted out to man could be lessened by the pain and suffering he endures while living. Jacob requested that illness precede death so that a person will not die suddenly, before having had a chance to sit with one’s children and discuss matters, whether it is to rebuke them and thus set them on a straight path, or to discuss their inheritance.\nThe Midrash then adds that King Hezekiah requested that one may be healed from a sickness, and only die from his final illness. This, too, was granted.\nMy uncle, HaRav Sholom Klass, zt”l, was asked a similar question many years ago (Responsa of Modern Judaism, Vol. 3 p. 201). We conclude with his discussion:\n“The reasons for illness, pain and tragedy are discussed in various sections of our Torah (Leviticus 26:14-46; Deuteronomy 28:15-69, etc.), and it is pointed out that these troubles come upon us because of our bad behavior and because we have forsaken the Torah.\n“No one asks for illness,” my uncle explains, “which, unfortunately, visits us at various times in our life. The Gemara (Eruvin 13b) states that for two-and-a-half years the House of Shammai and the House of Hillel had disputed on the subject whether it were better for man not to have been born, seeing the many tragedies which befall him, or in the long run, it is good for man to be born. At the end they came to the conclusion that it would be better if man were not born, but since he was born, let him examine his deeds.\n“When something bad or tragic befalls man he always blames G-d, not himself. When a catastrophe occurs it is called an ‘act of G-d.’\n“The Gemara (Shabbos 55a) points out that death, pain and suffering are the result of our own sins. Therefore we are taught not to blame G-d but to examine our own behavior. The Gemara (Berachot 5a) reiterates this view by stating: ‘If a person incurs illness and pain, let him examine his behavior and deeds.’\n“The Gemara (Berachot 33a) emphasizes this view with a story of a poisonous snake that would kill passers-by. They notified R. Chanina ben Dosa, who visited the place and put his foot over the hole where the snake dwelled. The snake came out and bit R. Chanina ben Dosa, but instead of the sage dying, the snake died. R. Chanina took the snake to the House of Learning and announced: ‘See, my children, it is not the poison of the snake that kills but the sin of man.'”\nMy uncle continues, “Except for rare cases, no one wants pain and suffering. The rare case is told in the Gemara (Bava Metzia 84b): R. Eliezer b. R. Shimon prayed and brought illness upon himself to atone for possible sins he may have committed when, in his capacity as a government official, he sent many thieves to the gallows.\n“When R. Chiya b. Abba became ill, R. Yochanan visited him and asked, ‘Do you enjoy your illness?’ To which he answered, ‘I do not like it, nor the reward which I may receive because of it.’ He gave him his hand and prayed for him and he became well. The same occurred to R. Yochanan and R. Eliezer (Berachot 5b).\n“Illness will strike even the greatest and most pious of our tzaddikim. The Gemara (Sanhedrin 101a) narrates that when R. Eliezer became sick his disciples visited him and began to cry, but R. Akiva laughed.\n“When questioned why he laughed, he explained, ‘As long as I saw that my master’s wine didn’t turn sour, nor was his flax smitten, nor his oil putrified, nor his honey become rancid (meaning he was prosperous in everything – he was wealthy, a great scholar and a righteous man), I thought, ‘G-d forbid, he may have received all of his reward in this world (leaving nothing for the next world), but now that I see him lying in pain I rejoice, knowing that his reward will be given to him in the next world.’\n“R. Eliezer said to him, ‘Akiva, have I neglected anything of the whole Torah?’ (That I’m being punished for my sins?)\n“R. Akiva replied, ‘Thou, O Master, have taught us, ‘There is not a just person on this earth that doeth all good and sinneth not'” (Kohelet 7:20).\nQuarreling and aggravating other people, especially shaming a person publicly, are considered very grave sins (Bava Metzia 58b). Even the great sage Rabbah, who boasted that he was born under the planetary influence of Mars, was accused by the sage Abbaye as being a shedder of blood (an allusion to his strict behavior of punishing people who didn’t agree with him, thus embarrassing them – Shabbos 126a). The Gemara (Bava Metzia 58b) explains that when you embarras a person publicly it is considered as if you killed him, for the blood departs from his face as he turns white with shame.\n“Rav Huna has another version regarding illness. He says, ‘Those whom G-d loves, He punishes with pain, as it states in Mishlei (3:12): ‘Those whom G-d likes He visits with sickness.’ Others call it a ‘pain of love'” (Berachot 5a).\n“The Gemara (Horayot 10b) explains the view that the righteous suffer so that all their sins will be expunged in this world and they can enjoy the pleasures of the next world. To which Rabbah said, ‘Would the righteous find it so distasteful if they enjoyed both worlds?'”\nMy uncle concludes, “Therefore, let us pray and do good deeds (mitzvot) so that G-d will spare us any pain or illness. For we are taught (Avoda Zara 54a): Heaven decrees that every illness is given a specific time to remain in the person and is not to leave until ordered by the Heavenly Court. Repentance, prayer and good deeds will nullify any bad decree. Therefore we pray that it be the will of the Almighty to remove all sickness and pain from all our people. Amen.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Could years of drought in India strike again, bringing famine and mass migration? New science says “yes”. Professors Gayatri Kathayat and Ashish Sinha explain. NCAR scientist Kevin Trenberth reports two marine heat waves right now. Endangered tree expert Malin Rivers with a survey of global trees. Scientists warn almost a third of tree species are in danger of extinction.\nA quick note: in last week’s show, Stanford’s Professor Rob Jackson said recapturing the powerful warming gas methane may be humanity’s only way to save a livable climate in our lifetime. Then someone blew up two massive natural gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea. Methane is erupting out of the sea into the atmosphere by the ton. Experts like Drew Shindell say that methane is not enough by itself to warm the planet much. Rob Jackson says whoever blew up those pipelines should be charged with War Crimes. I guess we don’t have Climate Crimes yet.\nDid you know Radio Ecoshock is entirely dependent on donations from blog-readers like you? The 106 radio stations do not pay for this program. Stations do not allow fundraising by program producers. As you can see, there are no ads or sign-up memberships popping up here. I don’t sell t-shirts or coffee mugs.\nYour donation pays for things like access to books or papers, program production software, specialized recording computers and associated hardware, download costs for “every file free” on this web site, etc. etc. Can you help keep this going? I’m looking for one-time donations or monthly donations – any amount you can afford.\nTHE INDIAN MONSOON CAN FAIL FOR YEARS:\nGAYATRI KATHAYAT AND ASHISH SINHA\nEven without climate change, some natural systems are unstable. Long droughts, running from decades to centuries, were not uncommon in the last few thousand years. They appeared in the American SouthWest, Australia, and many other places. In the early 1790s, the Indian Summer Monsoon failed several years in a row. An estimated 10 million people died of famine. Now the Indian Monsoon rains have to feed over a billion people.\nThere is something for everybody in this paper – a marriage of history and science, stories of mass famine killing millions, and questions about climate stability and our assumptions about the future. The title is: “Protracted Indian monsoon droughts of the past millennium and their societal impacts”. It was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy on September 21st, 2022. However, the paper is behind a paywall and it’s a difficult read with lots of tech notes. You may prefer this interview, and other articles listed below.\nThe lead author Gayatri Kathayat is Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, in China. Second author is Professor Ashish Sinha from California State University, teaching Big Ideas in Earth Science.\nDr. Ashish Sinha & Dr. Gayatri Kathayat\n“Dr. Sinha is a Professor in the Earth Sciences Department. He teaches courses in Global Change, World Ocean, Earth’s History, and Big Ideas in Earth Science. Professor Sinha’s research centers on climate change with a particular focus on high-fidelity reconstruction of precipitation patterns in tropical and monsoonal locations over the past several millennia.” Sinha has co-authored a number of papers on the Indian Monsoon over the past 4,000 years, and related collapse of civilizations. One 2012 paper led by M. Berkelhammer says:\n“The emergence of high-resolution proxy records from the Asian monsoon region suggests that the monsoon system is bistable and can abruptly transition between a suppressed and active state.“\nClimate models and governments assume the Indian summer monsoon is self-regulating, keeping within a narrow range between dry and wet years. This work from Kathayat and Sinha suggests instead: “a system prone to abrupt nonlinear transitions between strong and weak states”.\nOur guests tell us about 60% of agriculture in India – which feeds over a billion people! – is dependent on rainfall from the summer monsoons. That has failed, leading to widespread drought in the last 100 years, but only for a year, not many years. But the historic record shows the monsoons can fail to feed India many years in a row. Recurring drought appears over a decade.\nWHAT HISTORY SAYS ABOUT DROUGHT AND FAMINE\nThe records come from two sources. First, India has a long (thousands of years) or literary traditions. Many of the ancient documents speak of long droughts (and famine). Eventually British records add to that history. The Kathayat/Sinha paper says:\n“For example, classical ancient Indian texts such as Arthshastra (ca. 150 CE) and Rigveda (ca. 1500 BCE) contain numerous accounts of continuous multiyear droughts and ensuing famines, some lasting for as long as 12 y (7). Periods of protracted droughts (defined here as droughts lasting more than three consecutive years and/or multidecadal periods with drought every other or every third year) are evident in the systematic compilations of historical droughts and famines that occurred between ~1500 CE and 1900 CE.”\nBut how reliable are those stories – especially when current climate models do not show long droughts when creating the past?\nWHAT THE CAVES RECORD\nThere is a another record, kept by nature not by humans. In a certain cave in Northeast India, conditions are perfect to record rainy years and drought. When it is wet – and it can get very, very wet, – water drips down from the ceiling of the cave to form piles of stone, like limestone, on the bottom of the cave. These are called “stalagmites” – one of several varieties of cave drippings called “speliothems”.\n“Mawmluh cave is located in one of the wettest places on Earth with an average annual precipitation of over ~11,000 mm [443 inches or almost 37 feet of rain a year, average!], with 70 to 80% of its annual precipitation falling during JJAS (June to September).”\nMawmluh Cave is listed as UNESCO’s one of the ‘First 100 IUGS (International Union of Geological Sciences) Geological Sites’ in the world. It is becoming a tourist destination. Scientists, led by Gayatri Kathayat, who has been in Northeast India for the last 10 years, managed to measure rains for the last 1,000 years. Because the rock conditions are perfect, the experts are able to identify the year within a four year margin of error. This allows them to find even short-term droughts, and certainly the big ones. Generally, the physical record reinforces the historical accounts.\nTERRIBLE DROUGHTS FROM 1780s TO 1810s – MILLIONS DEAD\nFrom this paper (Kathayat/Sinha)\n“The period from the 1780s to 1810s stands out as an exceptional interval in both historical and proxy data. The historic drought compilations for this period principally draw their information almost exclusively from one East India Company report by F. C. Danvers, a British officer with the company. His report, in turn, was compiled from contemporary accounts of droughts and famines from various regions of the subcontinent.\nDanvers’ report—“A Century of Famines”, shows that there were at least 11 drought-related famines during this period, six of which, including the well-known Chalisa and Doji Bara or Skull Famines, occurred between ~1782 and 1792 CE, with a combined estimated death toll in the excess of 11 million, making it one of the deadliest decades in Indian history.”\nAfter another famine, the one-time capital of the Mughal Empire was completely abandoned by 1610 (Fatehpur Sikr). That is serious. The failing monsoons also affected Tibet and China, like the “so-called ‘Ming Dynasty drought’ (~ 1638 to 1641 CE) that affected large parts of northern China and India.” So this isn’t just a story about India.\nEnvironmental historian Richard Grove published in Nature the fatal Indian drought may have been part of a world-wide reaction to El Nino. But Kathayat and Sinha write the mechanism of the Indian Monsoons are still not fully known. They could be driven by an internal mechanism that requires no outside forcing like an El Nino, or even climate change. Nobody knows how climate will rearrange the already unstable Indian Monsoon system. That is a huge unknown risk. This paper has a section on the Monsoons and the ENSO system. They caution: “not all summer monsoon droughts are caused by El Nino events over India.”\nKathayat and Sinha question whether this recurring pattern of drought in late 1700’s India contributed to a “deindustrialization” of India in that period. The arrival of the British Empire trading system was probably the main reason India no longer became the workshop of Asia, as it had been under the Mughal Empire (around 1650 to 1750). But drought would have increased food prices, which led to rising wages hurting India’s competitive position. We still have a lot to learn about the real impact of long-term drought where a billion people presume rains will feed them.\nBy the way, the long periods of drought were often followed by a decade or more of extremely heavy rains and flooding. This looks like an unstable two-pole system. It looks to me like global warming could push that to even further extremes (but this is unknown). The authors say present day Indian water planning and other social infrastructure, including agriculture, does not include preparing for extended drought years. They say:\n“Recurrence of protracted droughts can easily overwhelm the adaptive capabilities of modern societies unless a longer-term and holistic understanding of monsoon variability is incorporated into drought management and mitigation planning.”\nOTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD NEED TO PAY ATTENTION\nThis study reminds me of findings that white settlers coming to Australia lucked out by arriving during a long wetter period, helping agriculture. We do not know if Australia is now entering a very long dry period, or whether global warming will make that more likely.\nModern humans think this civilization is stronger than such natural events. If there is a crop failure in India, we will ship in grain from somewhere else. With over a billion Indians, I doubt that. What are your concerns for India, and do you think planning for such extremes is possible? What would be the impact of a multi-year drought on the global economy? India is again a global workshop and tech hub. In a long agricultural failure, would a tide of Indian migration overwhelm parts of the world, with political repercussions?\nKEVIN TRENBERTH: HEAT WAVES IN THE SEA\nThis is the third of three conversations with Dr. Kevin Trenberth in New Zealand. Stefan Rahmstorf, a leading scientist, calls Trenberth a “top climate scientist”. That follows a long career of insightful research papers and leading role in reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Now we are working with Kevin’s new climate textbook for all: “The Changing Flow of Energy Through the Climate System”.\nKevin Trenberth spent 42 years as a scientist in the United States, leading climate analysis for NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research. But when I read Kevin’s new book – he talks more about the role of the ocean than the atmosphere.\nWe are shocked at land temperatures in so many parts of the N. Hemisphere at once. Pakistan roasted, stormed, and about one third of the country went underwater with floods. In China, extreme heat stayed for weeks. More painful heat struck Europe and the U.S. Should we presume that ocean temperatures change so slowly, that all these land events are not accompanied by anything shocking in sea changes?\nKevin says “no”. The oceans are also heating due to the greenhouse effect. In fact, while Turkey and China continue their all-time heat records into October, there are two marine heat waves right now. One is in the Tasman Sea off New Zealand. The other is a giant blob of abnormally hot waters in the North Pacific. Here is Kevin’s heat map for 2022, found in his article just published in the Conversation: “2022’s supercharged summer of climate extremes: How global warming and La Niña fueled disasters on top of disasters”.\nIt bothers me when people say 90% of our excess heat goes into the ocean, as though that doesn’t matter. Marine heat waves endanger ocean life and warming waters melt polar glaciers. The excess heat we stuff into the sea will come back in future centuries. It’s like spending money on a credit card – putting off paying for warming – into future centuries.\nKevin Trenberth is a co-author of a paper released in July 2022. The title is: “The ocean response to climate change guides both adaptation and mitigation efforts”. Trenberth, John Abraham, Michael Mann and other eminent scientists suggest Earth temperature will stabilize when we stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The planet will stop warming. I am doubtful about that. What about natural feed backs like thawing permafrost or melting clathrates? Should we really promise temperatures will stabilize as soon as we kick the fossil habit?\nKevin publishes heavily-cited papers fundamental to climate science. His new book is “The Changing Flow Of Energy Through The Climate System“. That book lived on my bedside table all summer as my teaching guide.\nSCIENTISTS WARN: TREE SPECIES ARE DISAPPEARING\nDR. MALIN RIVERS\nHumans spend trillions to get off this planet and we still don’t know who lives on this one. For example: nobody is sure how many kinds of trees there are. What we do know now: after a massive multi-year project, scientists report back with a warning: Earth is losing tree cover. And trees are facing a massive species extinction event. That affects everything, from the economy to climate and countless other species.\nExperts behind the Global Tree Assessment just issued their: “Scientists’ warning to humanity on tree extinctions.” This paper is Open Access, free for you to read. Here to explain why the plight of trees matter, is the lead author, Dr. Malin Rivers. She is an internationally recognized expert from Botanic Gardens Conservation International.\nDr. Malin Rivers\nIn this Warning we find:\n“Societal Impact Statement\nTrees play vital roles in many of the world’s ecosystems while providing many benefits to people. New evidence indicates that a third of tree species are threatened with extinction, representing a tree extinction crisis. Here we demonstrate how tree species extinction will lead to the loss of many other plants and animals and significantly alter the world’s ecosystems.\nWe also show how tree extinction will negatively affect billions of people through loss of livelihoods and benefits. We highlight a series of urgent actions needed to avert an ecological, cultural and socio-economic catastrophe caused by widespread extinction of tree species.”\nIn 1992, over 1700 scientists called for an end to environmental destruction and new relationships with nature. A second warning came out, this time with over 15,000 scientist signing. Radio Ecoshock guest William Ripple led that Second Warning in 2017.\nSince then, Second Warnings came out from specific fields, like (quote from the paper) “scientist warnings to humanity on microorganisms and climate change (Cavicchioli et al., 2019), insect extinctions (P. Cardoso et al., 2020), the freshwater biodiversity crisis (Albert et al., 2021)”… and more. Scientists in many fields are deeply worried about the future for nature, and of course, for our species.\nNow, unseen to most of us, the forest experts warn us:\nwe are approaching extinction of tree species, with widespread impacts throughout not just nature, but our human economy.\nI bet more of our listeners have never been in a first-growth mature forest. The canopy is so full, primordial forests in the North are dark places, a little foreboding, a place humans to travel through, but do not stay. Human beings apparently evolved from ape-like creatures adapted for living in trees. Now the city dweller is estranged from the trees. That is part of the problem.\nTHE FOREST NEWS IS NOT GOOD\nThese authors report:\n“… global forest area has declined by around 40% in the past 300 years, and 25 countries have lost their forest cover entirely (Shvidenko et al., 2005). At the same time, many remaining forest areas have been highly degraded by unsustainable land use practices such as illegal extraction of timber.”\n29% OF TREE SPECIES THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION!\nThis is just out. We are rapidly losing species, and all the creatures they support. Forever. Why have we not heard that in headline news stories? The web site for the Global Tree Assessment is here. Their web site says:\n“Around 43% of the already assessed trees are assessed as threatened to some level and 37% of all assessed trees are threatened globally. This means that at least 29% of all tree species are threatened with extinction globally.”\nRead more about the Scientists’ Warning on Earth’s trees from Science Alert here.\nThat’s it for this week. Please don’t forget to support the show. Tune in next week as we explore investigative reporting into the Big Lie from fossil fuel companies. It filled their pockets and helps wreck the future for all species.\nThank you for listening, and caring about our world.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Since the college’s founding, graduates have used their Converse experience as launching pads for successful careers and active citizenship. Among Converse alumnae are a Pulitzer Prize winner, a renowned heart researcher, a Texas Supreme Court Justice, a prominent civil rights attorney, Broadway performers, the deputy crew commander for Titan IV Rocket launches at Cape Canaveral, and the first female circuit court judge in South Carolina.\nAlthough the doors of Converse opened October 1, 1890, the first step towards the founding of the college was taken in 1889 when a prominent attorney assembled a group of Spartanburg citizens to discuss the project. Among the 13 men was Dexter Edgar Converse, a native of Vermont who had settled in Spartanburg before the Civil War and had become a successful pioneer in the cotton mill industry.\nMr. Converse was especially interested in establishing a college for women because his daughter, Marie, was approaching college age and he wanted her to have every possible educational advantage. His initial and subsequent contributions to the cause were so valuable that the college was given his name.\nInitially, the college was operated as a stock company and Mr. Converse headed the first board of directors, comprised entirely of Spartanburg citizens. They elected the Rev. Benjamin F. Wilson as the first president. The first faculty roster was comprised of sixteen members and the student body numbered one hundred sixty-eight.\nOn January 2, 1892, the main building was destroyed by fire, but was immediately reconstructed and enlarged. The work of the college hardly suffered interruption. In 1896, by the voluntary act of the stockholders, Converse College was incorporated under the laws of the state of South Carolina and a self-perpetuating board of trustees was established. This meant that Converse was converted into a permanent gift to the cause of higher education for women.\nBeginning in the 1900s, Converse matured into one of the leading colleges for women in the South. Academic requirements were strengthened, the ablest teachers supplemented the faculty and new buildings were constructed. It was during this period that the College’s Petrie School of Music received a national rating as a professional school of music. Converse became a charter member of the National Association of Schools of Music, which is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as the accrediting agency for music curricula.\nIn 1964 Converse introduced graduate programs, including the Master of Art in Teaching (MAT) program, the first degree of its kind in South Carolina. The graduate program would later become the School of Education and Graduate Studies and offer a wide range of degrees in fields such as music, education, the liberal arts, and marriage and family therapy.\nIn 1983 the college introduced Converse II to fit the schedules and ambitions of adult women, whether they are a few semesters shy of a bachelor’s degree or a freshman taking college-level courses for the first time.\nIn 2003, the college completed the most successful capital campaign in its history with $82.5 million in private gifts. The campaign led to the establishment of the Nisbet Honors Program, the Chapman Study Abroad Experience endowment, and an endowment to fund faculty initiatives for innovative teaching and scholarly achievement; renovation of residence halls and the Montgomery Student Center; and construction of The Rose Physical Activity Complex, the Justine V. R. “Nita” Milliken Addition of Milliken Fine Arts Building and Phifer Science Hall.\nMomentum continues today as Converse focuses on providing distinct educational experiences that enable creativity and develop the adaptive capacity necessary for students to succeed in the ever-changing world.\nConverse Model Programs (Arab League, NATO) are national leaders having defeated such institutions as Harvard, UC–Berkeley, Northeastern, Ohio State, and three U.S. military academies. Converse is home to the Southeast Region Model Arab League competition, headquarters of the Carolinas Committee on U.S.-Arab Relations, and helped establish and run a high school Model Arab League program in Amman, Jordan.\nThe Daniels Center for Leadership and Service is a partnership between academic affairs and student affairs to provide leadership development training and opportunities to learn, serve and lead on campus and in the community.\nIn 2006, Converse became the first women’s college to attain the prestigious All-Steinway School distinction.\nA member of Conference Carolinas, Converse competes in NCAA Division II – the highest level of any women’s college.\nThe curriculum supports more than 30 majors including South Carolina’s only Master’s in gifted education program, only low-residency MFA in creative writing and first Bachelor of Fine Arts in creative and professional writing, and the Upstate’s first undergraduate music therapy degree program.\nIn 2013, Converse made national headlines by announcing a 43% reduction in tuition – leading the national movement for transparent college pricing and making a top-quality private education accessible at a public-university price.\nIn 2017, construction was completed on Converse’s new junior housing complex. It is named after former Converse President Betsy Fleming.\nIn 2018, Converse expanded its reach by joining the University Center in Greenville. Converse provides a rapidly growing array of co-educational degree programs on the UCG campus, which began with the MAT in Early Childhood Education and expanded in 2019 to include an undergraduate degree completion program, the Master of Marriage and Family Therapy, and the Doctorate in Professional Leadership.\n2019 marked a historic milestone as the College announced its new status as a doctoral degree-granting institution following approval of its request for a level-change by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). In addition, SACSCOC approved Converse’s first doctoral program, a Doctorate of Education in Professional Leadership. The program began with cohorts on the Converse campus and at UCG.\nOn February 7, 2020, after many months of careful deliberation and research, Converse College decided to expand its undergraduate residential program from single-gender to co-ed beginning in Fall 2020. The Board of Trustees also approved a name change from college to university, effective July 1, 2021. Under the university umbrella, Converse will maintain a Converse College for Women and expand its international school into an international college.\nOn July 1, 2021, Converse officially changed its name to Converse University. The name change acknowledges Converse’s long-held university status and positions the institution to lead the charge for educational and economic excellence in the region.\nPresidents of Converse\n|1890-1902||Benjamin F. Wilson|\n|1902-1932||Robert Paine Pell|\n|1933-1955||Edward Moseley Gwathmey|\n|1956-1960||Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, Jr.|\n|1961-1989||Robert T. Coleman, Jr.|\n|1989-1993||Ellen Wood Hall|\n|1994-1998||Sandra C. Thomas|\n|1999-2005||Nancy Oliver Gray|\n|2005-2016||Elizabeth A. Fleming|\n|2016-2021||Krista L. Newkirk|\n|2021-Present||Jeffrey H. Barker|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "19 June 2011\nIn a speech on June 11, 2011, Economics instruction and the brave new world of monetary policy, John C. Williams, president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, said: \"Let's take a closer look at the classic quantity theory of money: MV = PY. It becomes very tenuous when traditional measures of M make up a smaller and smaller fraction of the value of transactions. For example, the velocity of M1 was around three or four in the 1950s. Now it is about eight -- and that's down from a peak of about 10-1/2 a few years ago. Today's economy uses cash and checking accounts much more efficiently.\"", "label": "No"}
{"text": "“a place of mystery, legacy & lore”\nA tiny jewel in the setting of the Hudson Highlands is called Pollepel, now familiarly known as Bannerman Island. Once an uninhabited place, accessible only by boat, it was considered haunted by some Indian tribes and thus became a refuge for those trying to escape them. These superstitions and others promoted by later Dutch sailors make for many fanciful tales. Even the name Pollepel (Polopel) originated with a legend about a young girl named (Polly) Pell who was romantically rescued from the breaking river ice and landed on the island shore, where she was promptly married to her sweetheart, who rescued her and her companion. The island was thereafter called Pollepel. History reveals a connection to the American Revolution in attempted defense of the Highlands against the British fleet in 1777 using the famous “chevaux de frise”. These were devices constructed of wooden cribs sunken in the river, filled with metal-tipped, pointed logs to obstruct the passage of ships up the river by damaging their hulls, built by men commandeered from the local prison. The attempt was however, unsuccessful, as the British took to flat bottom boats and avoided the chevaux de frise. One of the “points” is now on display at Washington’s Headquarters in Newburgh, New York. Francis Bannerman purchased the island in November 1900, for use as a storage facility for his growing surplus business. Because his storeroom in New York City was not large enough to provide a safe location to store thirty million surplus munitions cartridges, in the spring of 1901 he began to build an arsenal on Pollepel. Bannerman designed the buildings himself and let the constructors interpret the designs on their own. Most of the building was devoted to the stores of army surplus but Bannerman built another castle in a smaller scale on top of the island near the main structure as a residence, often using items from his surplus collection for decorative touches. The castle, clearly visible from the shore of the river, served as a giant advertisement for his business. On the side of the castle facing the western bank of the Hudson, Bannerman cast the legend \"Bannerman's Island Arsenal\" into the wall. Construction ceased at Bannerman's death in 1918. On August 1920, 200 tons of shells and powder exploded in an ancillary structure, destroying a portion of the complex. Bannerman's sales of military weapons to civilians declined during the early 20th century as a result of state and federal legislation. After the sinking of the ferryboat Pollepel, which had served the island, in a storm in 1950, the Arsenal and island were essentially left vacant. The island and buildings were bought by New York State in 1967, after the old military merchandise had been removed, and tours of the island were given in 1968. However, on August 8, 1969, fire devastated the Arsenal, and the roofs and floors were destroyed. The island was placed off-limits to the public.. Today, the castle is property of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and is mostly in ruins. While the exterior walls still stand, all the internal floors and non-structural walls have since burned down. The island has been the victim of vandalism, trespass, neglect and decay. Several old bulkheads and causeways that submerge at high tide present a serious navigational hazard. On-island guided hard hat tours were recently made available through the Bannerman's Castle Trust. The castle is easily visible to the riders of the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson line and Amtrak. The sign is easily visible to southbound riders.\nI'm not sure where this map is supposed to lead you, but the castle is literally on an island in the middle of river. Unless your car can drive through the Hudson, you have to kayak.\nIf you want to go to the island, you need yo go with a tour. The boat ride is about 30 minutes down the Hudson. The island is beautiful. Along with the large castle ruins there is a small castle near the top of the island where the Banermans lived when they visited the island. It is partially restored and the lower floor turned into a museum.\nWe went there and found out that this castle is on an island that you can't get to unless you got a boat.\nThis is now open to the public, with tours.\nI wonder whether the name \"pollepel\" stems from the name of a girl. \"Pollepel\" is an old Dutch word, (pictured in many famous paintings by old masters, such as Jan Steen), still in use and refers to a spoon, ladle or pot ladle. Pim Gillissen, Amsterdam, Netherlands.\nThis island is also in one of the transformer movies!\nThis place looks straight out of a Ye Old England book. I imagine on my visit I'd be doing a lot of terrible impersonations of Monty Python jokes.\nBe the first to add a review to the Bannerman Castle.\nHours not available\nIs there a problem with this listing? Let us know.\nNot Wheelchair Accessible\nOwn or Manage This Location?\nClaim this listing to keep your\ninformation up to date.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Today I released the last of twelve wild monarch butterflies. Each year I plant their host plant, tropical milkweed, in my registered Monarch Waystation where females lay their eggs. A few days later, I find the tiny larva, raise them indoors until large enough to place back in the garden, then monitor their growth, protect them from predators, then return them to the safety of the house, where they form their chrysalises.\nAbout nine days later, they emerge into the magnificent Monarchs we readily recognize. When these beauties are fully dry and active, I release them back into the garden, where they nectar on the milkweed and phlox, gaining strength for their long migration.\nOver the past four years, I raised over one-thousand monarchs and dozens of black swallowtails and handfuls of Fritillaries and Red Spotted Purples.\nMonarchs are endangered therefore I do my part to insure that those who find my garden prevail while they are here. Fewer than 1% of monarch eggs will survive in the wild without help. When I began this hobby, I had an excellent teacher, who to this day continues to answer questions, that to the novice bystander, would seem bizarre. Check out her website at www.socialbtrflies.com.\n- An excellent documentary to learn more is entitled In the Company of Wild Butterflies.\n- Learn more and help at www.monarchwatch.org\n- West Coast, USA residents may want to visit www.monarchbutterfly.org\nThis day is one of celebration, as 100% of my caterpillars emerged healthy. This day is also bittersweet, as I must bid my creatures farewell, never to know their ultimate fate. So fly strong and high mighty Monarchs. May gentle currents glide you to your winter home.\nMay you be happy and peaceful,\nMay you be healthy and strong.\nMay you be safe and protected from harm.\nMay you be at ease in your lives.\n~ S. Laufer\nCopyright © 2011 by Diane LaSauce all rights reserved", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Week Three: December 13\nOn that first Christmas night, the angels appeared to shepherds on a hill near Bethlehem. Alfred Edersheim, the great 19th-century Jewish-Christian scholar, wrote in his book The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah that the shepherds and the sheep to whom the angels appeared near Bethlehem were no ordinary shepherds and sheep.\nThe sheep were those bound for the temple sacrifices. The shepherds were outcasts because of their necessary isolation from religious ordinances. And their manner of life rendered legal observances unlikely, if not absolutely impossible.\nHow wonderful that in God’s wisdom and love the angels should appear to them—the doomed and the outcast—that night.\nToday we can declare to the world that the Good Shepherd cares for all people and wants to give them peace. Christ came on that first Christmas for one great purpose—to die on the cross for our sins. Now God offers forgiveness, inner peace, and eternal life to all who will repent and believe in His Son. This is the Christmas message!\nDo you know people who need to hear about God’s love and forgiveness? Will you share the true Christmas message with them this year?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Learning English? Check out my study guides.\nMost English adjectives that describe an emotional experience end in either -ing or -ed.\nFor instance, take the word interest:\n The book interests me. (verb)\n I’m interested in the book. (the experiencer, -ed)\n The book is interesting. (the source of the experience, -ing)\nThe experiencer takes an -ed adjective, while the source of the experience goes with an -ing adjective. Generally, inanimate objects can only take -ing.\nAnimate objects can take either -ing or -ed. Hence, a teacher could be boring if the students are about to fall asleep, or a teacher could be bored if they’ve already taught the same lesson a hundred times.\nLooking at our example again:\n The book [source] interests [emotion] me [experiencer]\n [source] [to be] [emotion]+ing\n [experiencer] [to be] [emotion]+ed\nIf you’re not sure which form to use, rephrase your sentence with a verb instead of an adjective. The word order will always tell you whether the adjective should take -ed or -ing.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Bailee Kiara January 21, 2021 Coloring Pages\nWhen H for Horse or Home or House is linked with pictures or cartoons of the objects, they find it interesting and funny and remember quickly.\nBesides helping the children to develop their imaginations, parents can utilize stories from the coloring pages to teach their kids practical lessons.\nAs children practice coloring, their abilities to stay within the lines improve over time.\nChildren who have a strong and active imagination possess a powerful tool that will serve them well throughout their lives.\nYou just need to click on the pages listed in the site and select them.\nColoring Pages Create Interest\nTag Cloudbig monster coloring book a coloring book crayola coloring book non coloring book coloring book crayons kawaii coloring book pdf coloring books adults books about the color yellow hobby lobby adult coloring books cool coloring book anatomy coloring books magic coloring book kids coloring book pdf free coloring books for adults cinnamon bear coloring book expert coloring book animal mandala coloring book zen flowers coloring book scooby doo coloring book can kindle books be read on nook color", "label": "No"}
{"text": "LituanicaSAT-1 is the first Lithuanian satellite mission. The primary mission objective is to provide university students and young engineers knowledge & real hands-on experience in satellite engineering.\nLithuanian satellite mission helps develop infrastructure and know-how in space technology by interdisciplinary interaction between academia and industry in Lithuania.\nLituanicaSAT-1 is a cube measuring 10x10x10 cm. It was carrying locally manufactured primary and secondary flight computers which control the payload consisting of an onboard VGA photo camera and FM Mode V/U Voice Repeater, designed and built by Lithuanian radio-amateurs.\nThe Satellite’s external solar panels were specially built and donated by Lithuanian based R&D company „Precizika-MET SC“. One of the mission secondary goals is also to test under space environment different micro-controller designs and MEMS sensors that are integrated into on-board computers.\nThis mission is specially dedicated to honor the 80th Anniversary of the flight across the Atlantic by Lithuanian-American pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas. Therefore the satellite bears the name of the original aircraft used during this historic flight – “Lituanica”.\nLituanicaSAT-1 is one of the two first Lithuanian satellites, and the first to transmit a Lithuanian message from space-a salutation from the Lithuanian president to all Lithuanians around the world.\nThe 1U CubeSat carries technology that conducts experiments such as FM voice repeater operation, taking pictures of Earth, and testing various controllers and sensors in microgravity.\nThe data collected asseses satellite health, attitude, and operational modes. It carries an FM transponder (uplink 145.950 MHz/downlink 435.180 MHz) and an AX.25 packet transponder (uplink 145.850 MHz/downlink 437.550 MHz). The CW beacon is on 437.275 MHz. The CubeSat was launched along with the second Cygnus spacecraft and 28 Flock-1 CubeSats aboard an Antares 120 carrier rocket flying from Pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island to the International Space Station.\nThe nanosatellite NanoRacks-LituanicaSAT-1 is a cube, with its sides 10 centimeters long, complying with the standard CubeSat design specifications. Four communication antennas are attached to the body of the satellite.\nThe total mass of the body including the equipment within it is 1,090 kg. The satellite uses low cost open-source software and hardware for primary and secondary flight computers that control the payload consisting of an onboard VGA camera and FM Mode V/U Voice Repeater.\nTransfer of multiple NRCDs from the launch vehicle to the JEM. Visual inspection for damage to the NRCDs. Installation of the NRCDs on the Multi-purpose Experiment Platform. Transfer to external via JEM airlock. Operation of JEM Remote Manipulating System (RMS) – grapple and position for deployment. Deployment of the NanoRacks CubeSats via NRCD operations.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The first aircraft to be branded British Aircraft Corporation was the BAC One-Eleven, a short-range jet airliner, which became one of Britain’s best-selling airliners. Originally designed by Hunting Aircraft, the One-Eleven was intended as a replacement for the Vickers Viscount and made its maiden flight on 20 August 1963. The design was highly successful and it saw service well into the 1990s. The One-Eleven could carry up to 119 passengers and was operated by numerous airlines, including British United Airways, British Airways, Braniff Airways and American Airlines.\nIn 1960 English Electric Aviation Limited, Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) and Bristol Aeroplane Company were merged to form the British Aircraft Corporation. Bristol, English Electric and Vickers-Armstrongs held 40 per cent, 40 per cent and 20 per cent of the share capital respectively. BAC then acquired 70 per cent of Hunting Aircraft a few months later.\nIn 1956 Hunting Aircraft had started a series of research studies for a 30-seat jet-powered airliner. Following the company’s merger into BAC the design was taken over and developed into the BAC 107, a 59-seat version powered by two Bristol Siddeley BS75 turbofan engines. Post-merger BAC had also inherited the 140-seat VC-11, a development of the Vickers VC10. The two concepts were merged into the BAC One-Eleven design with two Rolls-Royce Spey engines.\nOn 9 May 1961 the One-Eleven was publicly launched when British United Airways placed the first order for ten One-Eleven 200s. Orders soon followed from Braniff International Airways in the United States, Canada’s Mohawk Airlines, Kuwait Airways, Central African Airways and Aer Lingus amongst others.\nThe BAC-One Eleven soon found itself competing with the Douglas DC-9 and the Boeing 737, which had a lower unit cost, could carry more passengers and had more favourable maintenance costs.\nThe Canadian operator Mohawk Airlines was the first American airline to use the aircraft. The BAC One –Eleven entered service with them on 25 June 1965 and within five years the company had acquired a fleet of twenty aircraft.\nThe BAC One-Eleven was used extensively by European short-haul operators well into the 1990s, when the remaining aircraft were generally sold off to smaller airlines in Africa and the Far East. British Airways finally retired its last BAC One-Eleven in 1998.\nThe introduction of the Stage III noise abatement regulations in Europe from March 2003 meant that the aircraft was generally withdrawn from service when operators found it too expensive to develop hush-kits for the noisy and outdated Rolls-Royce Spey engines.\nThe BAC One-Eleven remained in production for nearly twenty-years, eventually ceasing in the UK in 1982. In the same year production was switched to a Romanian manufacturer under licence and the Rombac 1-11 entered service. Production continued until 1989, with most of the aircraft sold to Eastern European, Chinese and other emerging economy customers. In all 244 aircraft were delivered.\nThe European Aviation Safety Agency accepted a request from the aircraft manufacturer Airbus in 2010 to revoke the Type Certificate for the BAC One Eleven. As a result of this decision any of the aircraft registered with an operator within any European Union Member State became ineligible for a Normal Certificate of Airworthiness and were therefore forced to disappear once and for all from European skies.\nToday a BAC One-Eleven 510, in British Airways livery, can be seen at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford in Cambridgeshire. In addition BAC One-Eleven 475 G-ASYD, which was built in 1965, can be seen at the Brooklands Museum in Surrey. The aircraft was the prototype 400 series and made its maiden flight on 13th July 1965, with pilot Peter Baker at the controls. The aircraft was donated to the museum by British Aerospace Airbus Limited and it made its final flight, its 5,043rd flight, on 14th July 1994, when it touched down at Brooklands.\nThe book is published by Pen and Sword Books (Aviation) and is currently available in hardback. The ISBN reference number is 9781848846456. Click here to order your copy.\nFor more information on military conflict in the Pacific in the first half of the twentieth century take a look at The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Imperial Naval Air Service by Peter Edwards.\nThe book is published by Pen and Sword Books (Aviation) and is currently available in hardback. The ISBN reference number is 9781848843073. Click here to order your copy.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Pennsylvania environmental officials are attempting to track the source of explosive levels of methane in two private water wells in a shale gas field in Dimock, Pennsylvania.\nThat in itself is not especially newsworthy. The small town in northern Susquehanna County has been the focus of state and national investigations since 2009, when gas linked to nearby drilling by Cabot Oil & Gas seeped into the aquifer and caused a water well to explode. It’s significant, however, that the recent problems emerged in the middle of a 9-square mile area where the DEP banned drilling four years ago due to chronic methane migration problems. It’s also significant that the agency allowed fracking to resume at two nearby gas wells.\n| EPA technician collects samples at a Dimock home last year|\nPhoto James Pitarresi\nLast August, Cabot Oil & Gas reached an undisclosed settlement with 32 of 36 Dimock families suing for damages related to pollution of their water wells. Other lawsuits are pending. Due to widely publicized concerns, the federal Environmental Protection Agency began its own investigation last year. After six months of testing, the EPA found elevated levels of arsenic, barium, manganese, or methane, in five of 64 water wells – roughly 8 percent. It concluded that the concentrations could pose health risks, but those risks were mitigated by treatment systems drilling companies had installed or planned for the homes. The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry is now following up with an evaluation of it’s own.\nIn recent weeks, investigators, responding to complaints, have found two new cases where methane concentrations in private water wells pose an explosion hazard, said Colleen Connolly, a spokeswoman for the DEP. The contaminated water supplies are near the Costello and Gesford gas wells. Those wells, drilled into the Marcellus Shale, were fracked last fall, Connolly said.\nAnd this makes the story more than another gas-migration case. The industry has disputed claims that fracking – the use of pressurized chemical solution to break rock and release gas in deep formations – poses a threat to water tables above them. In fact, it has denied that it has ever happened. That denial is at the root of a national controversy that has raised the stakes on the outcome of ongoing investigations by the DEP and the EPA in Dimock and elsewhere.\nIt is known that methane migration can happen naturally in gas rich zones. It is also known that drilling (apart from fracking) can cause or intensify problems by opening pathways through the aquifer into pressurized zones below. The problem is managed by casing the well bore with cement to seal off the aquifer, a method that is effective but not foolproof.\nNot do be confused with drilling, fracking is done to stimulate the flow of gas after the well bore has been cemented. It’s functionally and technically a separate process from drilling. The industry’s insistence that fracking cannot create pathways for pollution to reach the aquifer has drawn scrutiny in several controversial cases.\nAn EPA investigation in 2011 found water wells near fracking operations on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Pavillion, Wyoming were polluted with synthetic chemicals, glycols, alcohols, methane, and petroleum hydrocarbons “consistent with gas production and hydraulic fracturing fluids.” The drilling company implicated in the study, EnCana, has denied responsibility, and the industry is challenging the EPA conclusions.\nIn a lesser-known case, the Ohio Division of Mineral Resources Management concluded that fracking caused an explosion in Bainbridge in 2007. One house was destroyed and 19 other homes were evacuated due to high methane levels. According to the agency’s investigation, the problem arose when Ohio Valley Energy Systems Corp fracked the well without properly cementing the production casing.\nThe most recent problem in Dimock surfaced after a water well near a gas well turned turbid in early February, according to the DEP's Connolly. She declined to disclose the location, but residents report that crews have been working at two affected homes near the intersection of Carter Road and State Route 3023, which are also near gas wells that have been fracked.\nCabot Spokesman George Stark was unavailable for comment today. The company has blamed the problem on a frozen pipe used to vent methane gases, Connolly said.\nThe water wells have been taken off line, and methane concentrations have fluctuated since the problem began, Connolly said. Regulators have not reached conclusions about the cause of the problem, and they are continuing to monitor the work of Cabot, Connolly said. Cabot contracts Crews were at the site last week with a drilling rig used to service and inspect gas wells.\nWhile there is relatively little documentation associating high volume hydraulic fracking to water pollution -- apart from spills and accidents related to handling fracking chemicals and waste above the surface before and after they are injected into the ground -- risks of methane migration from drilling are relatively well known. In September, 2009, the DEP issued a draft report that found methane migration from gas drilling, had “caused or contributed to” at least six explosions that killed four people and injured three others in Pennsylvania alone over the course of the decade preceding full-scale Marcellus development. The threat of explosions had forced 20 families from their homes. At least 25 other families have had to deal with the shut-off of utility service or the installation of venting systems in their homes. At least 60 water wells (including three municipal supplies) had been contaminated.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "No one has 360-degree vision. When we are focusing on something, everything else is out of focus, so there will be many important things that are there, right by us, but we don’t see them. That is fine most of the time, but on occasions it can be really problematic if we don’t make ourselves aware of those blind spots. How often have you felt like kicking yourself because, after the event, you have realised that you missed something significant and really wished you hadn’t?\nWhat is boils down to is that perception is an active process. Our senses don’t just simply alert us to what is around us in a direct way, with us passively receiving the sense data. What actually happens is that our senses are constantly filtering out much of what is presented to them. Much will depend on purpose. What is it we are doing? What are we trying to achieve? Answers to those questions and others will shape what is highlighted by our senses and what is filtered out. For example, imagine a painter and decorator entering a room to prepare for carrying out work there. What they notice will be linked to what they need to know in terms of the materials needed, any particular complications or whatever else a painter and decorator needs to know. Now imagine that a health and safety inspector subsequently enters the same room. They are likely to pay no attention at all to how many rolls of wallpaper would be needed or whether the doorframes would need to be sanded down. But what they are likely to notice is that loose electrical socket in the corner that could be highly dangerous or the pile of boxes in the other corner that is so high and so badly stacked that it is only a matter of time before someone brushes against it and gets seriously injured. They went in to the same room, but saw different things and came away with different conclusions, and therefore will no doubt behave differently as a consequence.\nWhat we notice (and don’t notice) therefore depends largely on what we are doing and why we are doing it. But that is not the only factor. Much can also depend on habit and taken-for-granted assumptions. For example, if we are used to trusting someone and have never had cause to question their loyalty to us, we may not notice the way they are exploiting or undermining us. Habit is a powerful force, and generally a very helpful one, but it does have its downside – it can blind us to important issues or potential dangers\nSo, what is the magic answer? How do we become more tuned in to these blind spots that can stop us moving forward positively at times (because we didn’t spot the opportunities) or put is in danger (because we didn’t spot the hazards)? Of course, there aren’t any magic answers, but there are things we can do. Let’s go back to the two sets of issues we have already looked at. First of all, the purpose of your activity – being clear about what your purpose is can help to keep you focused and that is a good thing, of course. But what you can also do is to think about how a situation might go wrong or how opportunities may be missed. This involves being sensitive to your surroundings – focusing carefully on what is important, but not doing that to the exclusion of all else. For example, a parent focusing on their career to enable their children to have a good standard of living may focus narrowly on work issues and not spend enough time with their children – thereby providing well for them financially, but perhaps not so well emotionally. The challenge, then, is to be holistic: focus narrowly when you need to, but also take a broader look at the situation too.\nSecond, in terms of habits and assumptions, this is where self-awareness comes in. If you review for yourself what your habits and assumptions are in certain situations, you will find yourself in a stronger position to avoid blind spots – you will be more tuned in to the potential issues to be missed because you allowed yourself to get stuck in tramlines, rather than go where your spirit takes you more creatively.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This clip is taken from the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It has Brad Pitt narrating the build-up to the traffic accident that Kate Blanchet's character suffers. During the narration the series of events that finally lead to the accident are described using past continuous and most notably past perfect tenses. At the point where any alternative actions in the series are suggested which would have avoided the accident, the third conditional is used. The key word of any standard conditional being \"if\". In the third conditional it looks like this: (If something had (not) happened) (this alternative would (not) have happenend). The \"if\" is quite clearly stated in the clip but there are distractions which may make the whole conditional structure less obvious.\nIt is an interesting clip to consider in any lesson that deals with past tenses or the third conditional. This clip does not have subtitles but is less than 4 minutes long. Despite this and because of the complexity of language, upper intermediate EFL students may benefit from it more than students at intermediate level or below.\nRelevant classroom activities could involve students being given a starting and finishing point in a series with or without any linking actions. They could then be asked to create a similar narration to that which appears in the clip. Check for logic and sentence structure.\nClick here to buy the DVD The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett\nClick here to buy the Blu-ray version of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.\nView the clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyrMhKsHHd0\nDisclaimer: The owner of this website does not claim ownership or control of any of the content accessed via the links on this site. Consequently the owner of this site is not responsible for any changes to or unexpected content found at these links. The owner of this website has no control over the continued availability of such content and cannot be held responsible for discontinued availability. Users of this site are expected to have read and agreed to these conditions and are especially advised to check content via links before use in the classroom.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "IF GOD WERE NOT BESIDE US NOW – By Martin Luther 1524\nFrom Martin Luther: Hymns, Ballads, Chants, Truth page 17-18:\nLuther’s friend Justus Jonas in 1524 wrote an eight-stanza paraphrase of Psalm 124. In contrast to the smooth-flowing style of Jonas, Luther also undertook the paraphrasing of the same psalm, his being shorter, more rugged, and closer to the text of the psalm. After Luther’s version was published in Walter’s Wittenberg hymnal of 1524, both his and Jonas’ paraphrases were included in early Lutheran hymnals. Walter’s tune is the one most associated with this text.\nContinue reading “Martin Luther – If God Were Not Beside Us Now”\n“A New Song Shall Now Be Begun” – Composed by Martin Luther 1523\nFrom Martin Luther: Hymns, Ballads, Chants, Truth page 8-13:\nOn July 1, 1523, the infant Reformation saw executed in the Brussels market place Heinrich Voes and Johann Esch, two Belgian Augustinian monks and followers of Luther. Since wandering minstrels and their ballads served as the mass media of the day, Luther wrote this first hymn of the Reformation as a ballad recounting the martyrdom of these witnesses. First appearing in 1523 in broadsheet for, it, along with Luther’s tune, was published in Johann Walter’s 1524 Wittenberg hymnal.\nContinue reading “Martin Luther Lyrics – A New Song Shall Now Be Begun”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Personal space is highly variable. Those who live in a densely populated environment tend to have smaller personal space requirements. Thus a resident of India may have a smaller personal space than someone who is home on the Mongolian steppe, both in regard to home and individual.\nIt can be determined on a habitat level by profession, livelihood, and occupation. Personal space can also be heavily affected by a person's position in society, with the more affluent a person being the larger personal space they demand. See also ethnic stereotype. While it is highly variable and difficult to measure accurately the best estimates for personal physical space place it at about 24.5 inches (60 centimeters) on either side, 27.5 inches (70 centimeters) in front and 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) behind for an average westerner.\nIn certain circumstances people can accept having their personal space violated. For instance in romantic encounters the stress from allowing closer personal space distances can be reinterpreted into emotional fervour. Another method of dealing with violated personal space, according to psychologist Robert Sommer, is dehumanization. He argues that, for instance on the subway, crowded people imagine those infiltrating their personal space as inanimate.\nAttitudes of people regarding someone else entering their personal space may depend on the sex of both people. Some train cars are women-only, to allow women to avoid men entering their personal space, providing privacy, and safety from the possibility of being groped. Changing perceptions about personal space and the fluctuating boundaries of public and private in European culture since the Roman Empire have been explored in A History of Private Life, under the general editorship of Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby, published in English by the Belknap Press.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors. Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness.\nTotal blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as NLP, an abbreviation for \"no light perception. Blindness is frequently used to describe severe visual impairment with residual vision. Those described as having only light perception have no more sight than the ability to tell light from dark and the general direction of a light source. When someone is partially sighted, they have a less severe loss of vision.\nBlindness can cause difficulty with almost every aspect of life, especially everyday tasks such as cooking, dressing, reading and writing, shopping and going for a walk.\nVisual problems may also cause huge problems for children at school. However, although baby’s eyes are tested, many schoolchildren don’t have regular sight tests even though some eye conditions set in as the child grows. As a result children may strain to see, read or contribute in class and their progress may be limited by undetected visual problems.\nThe risk of physical and social isolation is greater for people who are blind or partially sighted as it can be difficult to get out and make new friends. Blindness can also be an expensive condition because of the cost of special equipment.\nCauses of blindness\nMany different things can damage sight. Accidents and disease are often responsible for blindness, while some people are born blind or partially sighted because of genetic or developmental disorders.\nCommon causes in adults include age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, retinal detachment, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. While not causing blindness, common visual problems such as short-sightedness, squints or long sight may give a child particular problems at school.\nThere are a range of support services, charities, and devices that can all help make life easier if your vision is impaired. And just because you have low vision, it does not mean you are no longer able to work.\nWith the help of assistive technology, training and support, many people who are either partially sighted or blind can continue to work in often very demanding roles. Probably the most well-known example of such a person is the politician David Blunkett.\nSome causes of blindness can’t be prevented but there are things that you can do to reduce some of the risks.\nIf you develop problems with your sight, or symptoms of eye disease such as pain, visual changes or a discharge, then get urgent medical advice.\nIf you have a condition such as diabetes, glaucoma and cataracts, which are known to damage sight, then it is especially important to look after your eyes. Treatment may help to preserve vision.\nMost sight loss in diabetes is preventable but waiting until vision has deteriorated before seeking help may be leaving things too late. Although their vision may seem fine, people with diabetes can unknowingly develop changes in the retina which can cause permanent damage if not treated. People with diabetes are advised to have annual eye tests, which are free for them, as they are for anyone with any kind of disability.\nIf you wear contact lenses then you should scrupulously follow instructions for their use, including good hygiene in handling the lenses, and seek urgent medical advice if you develop any problems.\nResearch suggests that the following points will make sure your eyes are healthy and your risk of developing an eye condition is as small as possible.\nEveryone should have their eyes examined at least once every two years - even if there is no change in your vision. An eye examination can often pick up the first signs of an eye condition before you notice any changes in your vision. This can lead to you getting vital treatment at the right time, which could save your sight.\nDid you know smoking can double the risk of developing age-related macular degeneration, the UK's leading cause of sight loss? In fact, the link is as strong as the link between smoking and lung cancer. You definitely should speak to your GP about giving up smoking.\nEating a diet low in saturated fats but rich in green leafy vegetables such as spinach and broccoli may help protect against cataracts and AMD. Oranges, kiwis, nuts & nut oil, seeds and oily fish may also help prevent and slow down some eye conditions. Taking supplements is not a substitute for a healthy diet. It is important to maintain a healthy weight. Obesity can increase the risk of developing diabetes, which in turn could lead to sight loss.\nUVA and UVB rays in sunlight can harm your eyes and may increase the risk of cataracts and AMD. In bright sunlight it is important to wear sunglasses, glasses or contact lenses with built in UV filter to protect your eyes. You should only buy sunglasses that have a CE mark or carry British Standard BSEN 1836:1997 otherwise you cannot be sure that they will adequately protect your eyes from the harmful rays of the sun.\nDIY causes thousands of elevated injuries each year. Always wear safety goggles to protect your eyes from flying debris and fine particles. Sport (especially racquet-based sports) also causes lots of eye-related injuries each year. Investing in a good pair of protective sports goggles will help prevent serious damage to your eyes.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) community patterns in invertebrate hosts from inshore marginal reefs of the southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia\n- Publication Type:\n- Journal Article\n- Journal of Phycology, 2017, 53 (3), pp. 589 - 600\n- Issue Date:\nCopyright Clearance Process\n- Recently Added\n- In Progress\n- Closed Access\nThis item is closed access and not available.\n© 2017 Phycological Society of America The broad range in physiological variation displayed by Symbiodinium spp. has proven imperative during periods of environmental change and contribute to the survival of their coral host. Characterizing how host and Symbiodinium community assemblages differ across environmentally distinct habitats provides useful information to predict how corals will respond to major environmental change. Despite the extensive characterizations of Symbiodinium diversity found amongst reef cnidarians on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) substantial biogeographic gaps exist, especially across inshore habitats. Here, we investigate Symbiodinium community patterns in invertebrates from inshore and mid-shelf reefs on the southern GBR, Australia. Dominant Symbiodinium types were characterized using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis fingerprinting and sequencing of the ITS2 region of the ribosomal DNA. Twenty one genetically distinct Symbiodinium types including four novel types were identified from 321 reef-invertebrate samples comprising three sub-generic clades (A, C, and D). A range of host genera harbored C22a, which is normally rare or absent from inshore or low latitude reefs in the GBR. Multivariate analysis showed that host identity and sea surface temperature best explained the variation in symbiont communities across sites. Patterns of changes in Symbiodinium community assemblage over small geographic distances (100s of kilometers or less) indicate the likelihood that shifts in Symbiodinium distributions and associated host populations, may occur in response to future climate change impacting the GBR.\nPlease use this identifier to cite or link to this item:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Better Students Ask More Questions.\nWhat is subliminal retention?\n1 Answer | add yours\n- the brain can process subliminal information unconsciously\n- the sudden nature of the exposure breaks away from predictability and makes the cue more salient\n- depending on one's personal schema an instant connection can be made with the cue; maybe it appeals to the senses, or to emotions\nSubliminal retention is a short term memory process that consists of the exposure of a visual, verbal, or distorted cue, within a specific context or not, just for the sake of piquing the wavelengths of the brain.\nThe supposition is that, when the brain is consistently predicting a pattern, the application of a very sudden and brief break from the pattern elicits an impulse in the wavelength of stimulus which creates imagery that moves immediately to short memory. As a result, when someone is asked whether they saw \"something different\" to what they are used to seeing, the first recalled fact will be the distorted, visual, or verbal cue that was applied.\nA controversial study by James Vickary (controversial, because of allegations that it was flawed as far as controlled conditions, data analysis and established correlations) claimed that marketing works best when an intended product flashes out of nowhere and then disappears. The subliminal nature of the introduction of the product causes, according to theory, that the brain will retain that one piece of information due to the fact that\nTherefore, memory solidifies as a result of the combination of execution (how fast, appealing, and suddenly the cue is presented), unconscious neurological processes, and the appeal to the senses that it evokes.\nPosted by herappleness on July 21, 2013 at 8:26 PM (Answer #1)\nJoin to answer this question\nJoin a community of thousands of dedicated teachers and students.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This story now\nIN People ON 14 May, 2015\nNorth Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal and most of it is forested. It is a small island surrounded by coral reefs. People living in this area are known as Sentinelese. Their population is estimated to be between 50 and 400 individuals. They reject any contact with other people and if anybody tries to contact them, they are ready with their weapons. The Sentinelese are very protective of their own territory. But due to their hostile nature towards strangers, they have been saved from extinction for centuries. They are hunters and they also collect wild plants and go for fishing. They also happen to make tools and weapons from metal, which they recover from ships wrecked on the island’s reefs. There is no evidence of agricultural practice, however.\nDuring 2004, the catastrophic tsunami had occurred and the Andaman Islands were being slashed by the terrific waves. So, the existence of the Sentinelese remained unknown. They were living just in the path of the waves and it was predicted that they could not have possibly survived it. But it was discovered that they had shifted someplace else before the tsunami came. This discovery was made when a helicopter flew low over the island and a Sentinelese man aimed his weapon and did not allow it to land.\nThey are thought to be directly descended from the first human populations to emerge from Africa and have probably lived in the Andaman Islands for up to 55,000 years. Due to their language, it is predicted that they haven't been in contact with other people for thousands of years. They are also known to be backward due to their habit of being isolated.\nDuring 1990s, the Indian Government carried out a contact expedition. They sent boats where coconuts and gifts were being offered to the Sentinelese. In 1991, they began to accept the gifts directly. A few weeks later, a Pandit visited the islands and stayed there for a few days but towards the end of the visit, he was in the water with a group of Sentinelese when the dinghy drifted slightly away from him. And then one of the tribesmen pulled out a knife and pointed it threateningly at Pandit, obviously thinking that Pandit intended to stay on the island while his companions sailed off. The boat quickly returned, however, and Pandit left. After this incident, it was decided that the Sentinelese stay on their own and must be left alone.\nLook at some pictures from the island.\nTo access this content, confirm your age by signing up.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "NASA’s InSight Mars lander has just registered the strongest tremor ever recorded on any other planet.\nThe Marsquake, which took place on May 4, was registered at a magnitude of 5, slightly beating the previous record of magnitude 4.2 for a quake detected by InSight in August last year. Further study of the natural phenomenon that NASA dubbed a “monster quake” will help scientists pinpoint its exact location and the nature of its source. The hope is that it could also provide more information about the interior of the red planet.\nNASA reported the powerful Marsquake on Monday, May 10th on the InSight Twitter account.\n“I felt that!” said the tweet. “After more than three years of listening to the soft rumble of Mars, I’ve just felt my biggest ‘Marsquake’ yet: it looks like it’s around magnitude 5. My team is examining the data to learn more . Science rewards patience!”\nFelt that a‼️\nAfter more than three years of listening to the soft rumble of Mars, I’ve just felt what is by far my biggest “Marsquake” yet: it looks like it’s about magnitude 5. My team is examining the data to learn more. Science rewards patience!\n— NASA InSight (@NASAInSight) May 9, 2022\nMars doesn’t have the kind of tectonic plates whose sudden movements cause tremors on Earth. Instead, marquakes are caused by volcanic activity. Scientists are keen to study Mars’ seismic activity as the data may help better understand the red planet’s mantle and core.\nIn more than three years of monitoring Mars, InSight has detected more than 1,313 tremors. Its highly sensitive seismometer works under a dome designed to block the noise of the wind and protect it from the cold nights.\nBruce Banerdt, InSight’s lead investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, commented on last week’s significant Marsquake: called: “Since we set down our seismometer in December 2018, we have been waiting for ‘the big one’. This quake is sure to provide an unparalleled glimpse of the planet. Scientists will analyze this data to learn new things about Mars in the years to come.”\nNASA also reported that InSight is currently having issues with Martian dust covering its solar panels, resulting in reduced efficiency. InSight can attempt to remove dust by using its robotic arm to drizzle sand over the slabs. Windy conditions can also drive it away, but the lander must be lucky to experience such a weather event. Dust is also causing problems for NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, which last year became the first plane to perform powered, controlled flight on another planet.\nNASA’s Psyche spacecraft is almost ready for launch to a strange metal asteroid\nNASA’s single-plane observatory, SOFIA, will no longer fly\nPerseverance Rover begins exploring the ancient river delta on Mars\nWatch NASA drop a capsule from 1,200 feet to test the Mars Sample Return System\nNASA’s Mars drone takes cool shots of the rover’s landing gear\nThis article was previously published on Source link", "label": "No"}
{"text": "When we think about Parashat Noah, we tend to think about the title character. We are interested in understanding why Noah was chosen, we want to know more about his experience building the ark, living in the ark, and emerging from it. However, part of the beauty of Noah’s story is that it is not only about him, it is also about all of the animals he brought with him onto the ark, two by two, seven and seven, the impure and the pure, who were saved and tended to by him during the flood. One animal in particular, the raven, is highlighted by Rabbinic literature as having a unique experience in the ark and having a different kind of interaction with Noah. Focusing on the raven’s story highlights a different dimension of what life was like during the flood and draws our attention to the tension between being sensitive to loss and the responsibility to move on from it.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Given an input string, write a function that returns the Run Length Encoded string for the input string.\nFor example, if the input string is ‘wwwwaaadexxxxxx’, then the function should return ‘w4a3d1e1x6’.\nInput : str = 'wwwwaaadexxxxxx' Output : 'w4a3d1e1x6'\nThis problem has existing solution please refer Run Length Encoding link. Here we will solve this problem quickly in python using OrderedDict. Approach is very simple, first we create a ordered dictionary which contains characters of input string as key and 0 as their default value, now we run a loop to count frequency of each character and will map it to it’s corresponding key.\nThis article is contributed by Shashank Mishra (Gullu). If you like GeeksforGeeks and would like to contribute, you can also write an article using contribute.geeksforgeeks.org or mail your article to email@example.com. See your article appearing on the GeeksforGeeks main page and help other Geeks.\nPlease write comments if you find anything incorrect, or you want to share more information about the topic discussed above.\n- Run Length Encoding\n- Program to implement Run Length Encoding using Linked Lists\n- ML | One Hot Encoding of datasets in Python\n- Python | Character Encoding\n- ML | Label Encoding of datasets in Python\n- Python | Encoding Decoding using Matrix\n- Python | C Strings of Doubtful Encoding | Set-1\n- Python | C Strings of Doubtful Encoding | Set-2\n- Encoding a word into Pig Latin\n- Python string length | len()\n- Get length of dictionary in Python\n- Python - Extract K length substrings\n- Python | K length Padding in List\n- Python | Find whether all tuple have same length\n- Python | Strings length summation", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Taking Your Course Online, Part 3 of 6\nSelect Material Delivery Methods\nDetermine which materials should be delivered in the face-to-face component of your course (if your course has one) and which items can be delivered online. Avoid delivering materials that will distract the student from the course objective. Do not add irrelevant information to “fill-up” the course site.\nPrepare the materials for electronic delivery. This may include scanning graphics, creating files in a word processor, developing web pages, or creating slides in presentation software. If necessary, consult the Blackboard Administrator, or the Instructional Designer.\nYou may find the following guidelines useful.\n- In the place of a written lecture, several instructional articles that distill the major concepts addressed in the lecture could be utilized.\n- Instructional units should be short and concise documents conveying relevant, critical information to support concepts, procedures, and/or performance-based skills. The instructional unit should be written specifically to communicate the content-knowledge necessary for improved, more advanced performance.\n- Ensure that each instructional article supports the learning objectives/goals of the course.\n- Get the learner’s attention immediately by clearly making the topic relevant to something important within the learner’s frame of reference (e.g. job, studies, professional development)\n- Integrate questions or other interactive activities – such as exercises, problem-solving situations, and/or short simulations – into the body of the module\n- Always limit the module to one or two main ideas or concepts\n- Use only the most important “need-to-know” supporting details\n- When possible, support the module content with audio and/or video clips containing relevant information, such as “how to” instructions or examples that further clarify key learning points.\n- A case study may be included within the body of the module, encouraging learners to notice connections between the module’s text and the example as they learn a particular fact or concept. Alternatively, the course could be set up with a single case study that includes links to all the pertinent instructional units and student exercises. Learners would then use instructional units as needed to help develop solutions to the problems presented in the case study.\n- Simulations also may incorporate links to instructional units to be used as resources or prior research.\n- Self-evaluation typically tends to be quiz questions in multiple-choice or true/false format. You can increase motivation and learner interaction by using drag-and-drop design to match correct answers with their questions, or construct a game. In a crossword puzzle, for example, the critical cues for the Down and Across words could; be taken from the definitions of key terms within the course.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We’ve carried out a huge research work in the Kara sea – since 2012 a number of expeditions were performed both in winter and summer seasons.\nIn a spring period of 2013–2017 we studied physical and mechanical properties of sea ice in the Kara sea. The main task was to evaluate the sea ice’s main physical (temperature, salinity, density, texture) and mechanical properties. Ice structures of different age gradations were studied with both borehole indenter and sample coring.\nGlaciers and icebergs were also studied by different means. First iceberg towing trials in the Kara sea revealed new information on iceberg movement and behavior under tow.\nIce mechanics and physical properties\nIce properties of the Kara sea were comprehensively studied for several years in different zones. For example, we studied 120+ ice stations with 5000+ ice cores, 4000+ local strength measurements. Obtained data shows that for level ice with increase of thickness, its means temperature, salinity and density decrease, but mean values of local strength and strength of ice samples at uniaxial compression increase. Failure zones of different intensity developed after indenter penetration are studied. A range of comparison coefficient for local strength and uniaxial compression strength is updated. A comparison of strength at uniaxial compression of cylindrical ice samples drilled parallel to the ice cover surface with the ice strength in conditions of uniform compression (local strength) was also performed.\nGlaciers and icebergs drift\nIn the Russian Arctic, icebergs are widely spread throughout Barents, Kara and Laptev seas. The distribution of icebergs in the central part of Barents Sea is better described, taking into account a large amount of accumulated data. Icebergs of the Kara and Laptev seas are less studied, whereas there are more calving glaciers. We tried to fill those gaps.\nIcebergs may threaten marine structures, vessels and naval operations in a number of Arctic and Antarctic regions. These threats can be eliminated by iceberg towing. This technology is vital for the projects of iceberg towing to water-starved areas of the Earth. Our experiments on extra-long towing show great potential for this concept and bring so hope for realization of these projects.\nDue to its geography and harsh environment, this area is remains poorly studied.\nAmong the factors that have a particularly strong impact on the region, one should highlight low air temperatures, storm winds and waves, intense currents, surges and presence of sea ice for most of the year.\nSea ice characteristics\nDuring field ice studies in 2013-2017, more than 150 ice features were investigated in the Laptev sea. In most cases, a set of methods was used, including determination of the morphometry and internal structure of ice features using water thermal drilling, total station survey of the surface, sonar of the underwater surface of the ice feature, determination of the local ice strength using a borehole jack, taking ice samples to determine the physical (temperature, salinity, density) and strength (compressive and bending strength) properties of ice.\nPermafrost in the Laptev sea\nA complex multidisciplinary research was carried out from the land fast ice in the Nordvik Bay, Laptev Sea. The main aim was to obtain and summarize data on the geocryological conditions of the south-western part of the Laptev sea, which are necessary to assess the impact of adverse environmental parameters and model further possible permafrost degradation. The permafrost-geological structure and cryogenic processes, along with the presence of surface gas, are decisive geotechnical features of the shallow-water areas of the Arctic shelf.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Johns Hopkins Health - Fever Phobia\nIssue No. 2\nFever PhobiaDate: September 24, 2008\nA Recent Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study found that most parents have misconceptions about their children’s fevers and end up overtreating mild cases. Usually they reach for ibuprofen or acetaminophen.\nBut parents should be reminded that not all fevers are dangerous, says study author Michael Crocetti, M.D.\n“Fever is a sign of the body’s revved-up defenses fighting infection,” he says, “and fever-reducing medications carry their own risks.” Those risks include accidental overdosing of medications with acetaminophen.\nThe study noted that “fever phobia” was higher among ethnic groups that believe fevers cause death and brain damage, which is a misconception. Researchers say that brain damage only occurs in fevers higher than 107 degrees, which are quite rare. For more, visit hopkinsbayview.org/pediatrics.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "GREEN™ Nitride Etch\nMost integrated circuits are passivated with a protective layer of silicon nitride. The most common method of removing silicon nitride is by plasma or reactive ion etching. Plasma etching is relatively expensive and comes with the disadvantages of plasma charging damage and lack of selectivity to etching silicon. GREEN™ is a safe, easy to use solution containing less than 5% of the active ingredient, ammonium fluoride. However, GREEN™, heated to 120°C will remove typical silicon nitride passivation in about 14 minutes. GREEN™ can be reused several times.\nThe nitride etch rate of GREEN™ increases with temperature from about 90 to 140 degrees Celsius. Etch rate selectivity of nitride to oxide is about 1.5 to 1.0 at 120°C. Selectivity of nitride to oxide decreases with temperature. Aluminum etch rate is insignificant throughout the temperature range.\nThe best uniformity is achieved if the solution is constantly agitated during etching. If a magnetic stirrer/hot plate is available, a Teflon coated stir bar will to cause sufficient motion in the liquid. A small stir bar (STRBR), 1/2″ x 5/16″, leaves plenty of room in the beaker to hold a small IC sample with locking tweezers.\nStainless steel beakers (SS125, SS250) are recommended for superior temperature distribution and chemical non-reactivity.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "To Buy This material Click below link\nFrom the time the Constitution was ratified, Americans have disagreed over its meaning and the extent of the powers it gave to different branches and reserved to the states and the people. Since the Constitution took effect, it has been amended several times and, just as importantly, interpretations of the Constitution have changed over time. For this assignment, examine the history of one constitutional issue in depth and explain how, and why, understandings of, and approaches to, the issue have changed over from colonial times through the present.\nDevelop an argument about how, in your informed opinion, the constitutional issue should be interpreted. Justify your position with reference to the Constitution itself, the history of the issue under consideration, and the stance adopted on the issue by significant constitutional interpretations, past and present. In the paper, you should identify key events and documents related to the event, including momentous historical controversies, major Supreme Court cases, and significant political developments. Conclude the paper by generating an argument for how the issue should be interpreted.\nFor this assignment, chose from one of the following issues:\nGideon vs. Wainwright\nDefinitions of citizenship and citizen’s rights\nRelationship between state and federal governments\nRole of the judiciary\nFor more Assignments visit", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Learning about culture gives you ...\n- a competitive edge\n- the cognition to be a better mentor\n- a knowledge of other people's backgrounds\n- a chance to focus on people as individuals\n- information in a non-intimidated way\n- understanding that even in a group that appears the same there can be differences\n- ability to remove obstacles and barriers that block us from our full personal potential\n- techniques for gaining insight\n- a chance to be an advocate for fresh ideas\n- the tools to make your school or workplace an environment of value\n- an opportunity for new friendships\n- a reason not to quickly judge others\n- a purpose of cherishing your own culture\n- an awareness that diversity is about differences and similarities\nDefinition of Culture\nCulture is the patterns of learned and shared beliefs and behavior. This is the definition of culture according to Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions about Humanity by Robert Welsch and Luis Vivanco. However, Anthropologists cannot seem to agree on one definition of culture because of how broad culture is.\nCulture is taken for granted. The culture and environment you grow up in is part of you; culture isn’t made up of just the big things like religion, foods, holidays, art, and folklore it’s everything in-between as well.\nCulture also consists of humor, manners, marriage, gender roles, money, values/morals, your rights as a person, gestures and non-verbal communication, personal behavior and appearance, ownership, health/ medicine, superstitions, and the ceremonies we conduct.\nWhen Anthropologists talk about culture, there are four levels of culture they discuss.\nThe process of learning the culture, rules and logic of a society, which begins with birth.\nA subdivision in complex, diverse societies that shares some features with the larger society.\n- Cultural Universals\nThese are generally learned behavior patterns that are shared by all of humanity.\n- Familial Culture\nCulture shared with your family.\n[edit | edit source]\n|Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Culture|\n|Wikisource has original text related to:|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz: “The Phantom Ship”\nExcerpt, “Specimens of the Choicest Lyrical Productions of the Most Celebrated German Poets, from Klopstock to the Present Time.” With Biographical and Literary Notes translated in English Verse by Mary Anne Burt. 1856.\nThe Phantom Ship\nO’er billows impetuous grey mists arise,\nEach star has withdrawn its ray;\nA pennon, ’mid night-winds, tempestuous flies,\nOn a Ship that darts o’er the spray:\nThat Vessel is steered by a Phantom’s hand,\nMidst hurricane fierce, and storm;\nShe braveth each tempest—each rocky strand;\nIn that Ship lives no human form.\nAfar, where each billow, in silence, lies,\nA lonesome Island is found;\nThere, a rock, toward the Heavens, doth proudly rise,\nThat rock circling clouds surround.\nThere springeth no grass—no tree grows there,\nNo bird doth her offspring rear,\nThe eagle alone, as he roves through air,\nSurveyeth that region drear.\nAround the King’s tomb, on the dreary Isle,\nLoud whirlwinds impetuous fly;\nSword, helmet, and sceptre old, awhile,\nOn the Monarch’s coffin lie.\nNo mortal there dwells: the world’s rushing wave,\nOn his wearied ear, sounds not;\nNo tear of affection bedews the grave\nOf the Sleeper on that chill spot.\nMoons change in the Heavens—as years glide away,\nThe Dead, immoveably lies;\nYet, annually, on the Fifth of May,\nThe Shade doth awaken, and rise!\nThe Spirit that Night, impatient of rest,\nThrough terrestrial regions doth stray:\nOn that Night—of vitality possessed,\n’Mid earth he directs his way—\nNear that Isle is a Ship, winds swell each sail,\nFor distant realms is she bound;\nA Pennon there hovers amid the gale,\nGolden Bees on a snow-white ground.\nOn board, the lone Monarch repairs, in haste,\nWith an eagle’s impetuous speed,\nNo helm guides the Ship o’er the dreary waste,\nNo pilot that Ship doth lead!\nThe Shade of the Monarch is there alone,\nHis eye pierces through mists of night;\nHow heaveth his breast with a heart-felt moan!\nHis eye darts consuming light,\nThe Ship steers on—on towards the well-known strand;\nRejoiced, his arm he extends,\nWith soul enraptured, he views his land,\nO’er his Land his glance he bends.\nThe King leaves the Ship, and his foot doth rest\nOn that loved, that sunny shore;\nHow trembles the earth, as glides o’er her breast,\nThat Star whose light is veiled o’er!\nHe seeketh his City—’tis vanished now,\nHis People he seeketh in vain;\nWhen the sun-beams of Glory circled his brow,\nThey flocked round him like waves of the main!\nHe seeketh his Throne—in dust is it hurled—\nThat Throne which aspired so high;\nThat Throne from which he surveyed the world,\nAt his feet, as a footstool lie!\nThe King seeks his heart’s best treasure—his Child,\nWhose Heritage was a throne—\nThat Birthright was scattered by tempests wild,\nWhere, now, is the Monarch’s son?\n“Where art thou, oh Child! Who, in infancy,\nWith coronets used to play?\nOn his breast, as a Parent fondled thee,\nBliss terrestrial passed away!\nOh, my cherished Wife! Oh, my offspring dear!\nExtinct is the Sovereign’s race!\nOn the regal throne doth a menial appear,\nAnd the King has a menial’s place!”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "APSA Format Citation Generator\nMany students always try to cope with a list of reference by themselves. However, manual work lacks perfection. There will be always minor mistakes and citations which doesn’t correspond to APSA referencing style. Those students who prepare perfect bibliographies are not such wise guys as you might think. Their secret lies in free APSA citation generator. It is an automatic APSA citation machine which will quickly turn the information into a full reference. It takes minutes to write the bibliography according to the requirements. Try it out! It will save much time and nerves. Guys are ready to tear their hair out when a list of reference should be placed on 15 pages. APSA format citation generator does it at a breakneck speed. All you need to do is to copy and paste the ready made bibliography.\nAPSA in-Text Citation Generator\nAPSA (American Political Science Association) is one of the most widely used referencing styles. Multiple authors use it to present their scientific researches. The style is quite simple in creating a list of reference accordingly. Moreover, it is piece of cake if you are using APSA in-text citation generator. Here, we are going to teach you how to apply APSA citation maker.\nAPSA Citation Examples\nThe best way for you to understand how the machine works is to produce an example. Examine the following situation. You need to create APSA citation from an electronic encyclopedia, Wikipedia, for instance. Firstly, find APSA citation tool and choose encyclopedia entry among the suggested options. Afterwards, insert the URL of your entry and push the button to see what happens next. The entry we have taken to provide you with an example is about the war of White and Red Roses. This is what we have got:\nTitle of Entry: Wars of the roses\nDate Published: 16.02.2017\nName of Encyclopedia: Wikipedia\nPublisher: Wikimedia Foundation\nDate Accessed/Viewed: 17.02.2017\nThe APSA in-text citation looks like that: (Wars of the roses, 2017) and the full reference:\nWars of the roses (2017) in Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses (Accessed: 17 February 2017).\nThis is how your citation should be done if you need to APSA reference an encyclopedia entry. Did you notice any peculiarity about it? The thing is the citation is placed in brackets. All your in-text citations correlate with the full references and can be easily found by the first in-text citation word which is the same in the bibliography.\nBeneath, you can find out how to deal with the material of concrete authors. The reader can search for any reference by the scientist’s name in the list which is alphabetically done.\nA Guide on How to Cite APSA Format\nLet’s take one more example with an author’s name. For instance, you are writing a term paper on a socio-political topic and you need to insert a name of a scholar. You can start in the following way: Conducted research (Brown 2016) on this matter proves… OR In 2016, Brown declared that…. OR Brown (2016, 297) made it clear that….\nNow, you need to mention his scientific work in your bibliography. The above-mentioned citation builder is at your service! Apply the same algorithm of actions to get a ready-made reference:\nBrown, J. (2016) How to Save People from Revolutions. 2nd edn. New York: Thomson Coorp.\nAPSA Citation Style\nWe didn’t want to exhaust you with a boring theoretical material. However, it might clear your vision of APSA citation style. As you have already noticed there are two or three compulsorily elements of an APSA citation. They contain the author’s name, the year of publication and the page number. Your citation is taken in brackets. However, it doesn’t if the author’s name is used as the part of sentence. You have been produced the example for this particular APSA rule above. Mind a type of the source you are dealing with. You have examined the two APSA citation examples in the article. The first source was the encyclopedia entry and the second one was the book. They do look different.\nAPSA Referencing is Easy\nThe free APSA citation online machine produces speckles bibliography. Simply use it if you hesitate where to mention a number of edition. It has all answers to referencing questions. Each parenthetical citation will be underpinned with a correctly written reference. That is the way to an excellent grade for your term paper. There are a lot of manuals on APSA topic. We have prevented you from crazy flipping through pages to find a necessary chapter. The presented info is a concise compilation of materials in simple words you will definitely need.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Are you looking for ways to ensure safe medical waste disposal in your healthcare facility? Look no further!\nIn this blog, we discuss the best practices for medical waste disposal, providing you with tips and guidelines on how to properly manage it. With these insights, you can make sure your facility is correctly disposing of hazardous waste while protecting both your staff and the environment.\nTypes of Medical Waste\nHealthcare facilities generate a wide range of waste materials that must be disposed of carefully to ensure public safety. When it comes to medical garbage, it’s important to recognize that this type of disposal differs from other forms.\nThere are a variety of different types of medical waste, some of which can be quite dangerous if handled improperly. Therefore, it is crucial to understand what these various types consist of and how they should be managed accordingly.\nThe following are the main categories of medical waste:\n- Sharps include needles, scalpels, and any other devices contaminated with bodily fluid or tissue that can puncture or cut skin. These must be disposed of in special containers designed specifically for sharps disposal\n- Pathological wastes include cells/tissues from biopsies or surgeries, as well as cultures and stocks from laboratories. These must be incinerated before disposal in order to prevent their spread.\n- Pharmaceutical wastes include unused medication and expired products that contain potentially hazardous chemicals like heavy metals and drugs such as antibiotics\n- Chemotherapy is one of the most hazardous forms of medical waste due to its high concentrations often used for treating cancer patients; these need to be treated differently than other types and may require separate collection due to their toxicity\n- Infectious wastes contain microorganisms that can cause disease in humans or animals; this type includes soiled items like bandages, blood-soaked gauze, gloves, and masks\n- Genotoxic wastes include carcinogens (cancer-causing agents), mutagens (agents that change genetic material), and reproductive toxins (toxins affecting reproduction), all three categories having significant environmental risks if not properly managed during disposal.\nTo get rid of all this waste, it is essential to dispose of it well. This can easily be done by hiring external companies like https://www.medwastemngmt.com/.\nBest Practices for Medical Trash Disposal\nMedical waste is any solid or liquid material generated during the diagnosis, treatment, or immunization of human beings or animals that may pose a threat to public health.\nHealthcare facilities must regularly and effectively dispose of medical garbage. Following established protocols and best practices for medical garbage disposal is essential in order to protect patients, personnel, and the environment. Facilities must ensure that they comply with all applicable regulations when disposing of medical waste.\nThe following tips can help healthcare facilities establish an effective process for disposing of medical waste:\n- Identify all types of medical trash your facility generates ─ Make sure you are aware of which wastes require special handling and which can go into regular garbage bags or recyclable materials.\n- Label containers properly ─ Clearly mark hazardous materials with biohazard symbols or other warning labels.\n- Segregate it by type ─ Segregate all hazardous solid wastes from non-hazardous garbage as well as from reusable materials. This will help streamline the collection, create a safer work environment, and reduce risks associated with improper disposal practices.\n- Minimize the number of containers used for storage ─ To maintain compliance with local regulations on disposal limits, consider using space efficiently when storing medical waste containers in order to reduce the overall number needed.\n- Verify technology requirements ─ Research technological options available to safely manage large volumes of hazardous material prior to disposal at an appropriate facility such as a dedicated incineration unit designed specifically for this purpose.\n- Train staff ─ Ensure that personnel understands what falls under the “medical” or “hazardous” classification when it comes to disposal; this is often different than what is accepted in regular garbage procedures in a given city or state.\n- Establish safe transport requirements ─ Whenever possible use dedicated transportation service providers who have experience handling hazardous materials safely and properly following Department of Transportation standards and other safety requirements associated with transporting healthcare-related wastes over long distances.\nAll healthcare facilities must ensure that medical waste is placed in containers for transport with appropriate labels. The label should be bright and visible so it can be easily seen, even when the container is full and stacked against other containers for transportation. Labels may include the following information:\n- Facility name or address\n- Source or generator\n- Type or category of waste.\nLabels should also be easy to read and understand (ideally using printed text instead of handwritten) and should include a hazardous material symbol, an international biohazard symbol, or a puncture/leak-resistant packaging symbol prominently displayed on the outer surface of the container – all in accordance with applicable labeling requirements specified by your state/regulatory agency.\nFinally, labels must not detract from the original factory-imprinted label on the container. All healthcare facilities should also consider preparing necessary documents tracking container usage based on their specific requirements.\nWhen storing medical trash, it is important that facilities use a clean, dry container with a tight-fitting lid. The container should not be used for any other purpose and should display a clearly visible label outlining the type of waste it contains.\nContainers must be stored inside a secure area and kept away from food or areas where personnel may come in contact with them. Any spills or overfills should be immediately reported and cleaned up by facility staff wearing appropriate PPE.\nThe quantity of garbage stored will depend on the volume received at each facility, but excess amounts should not be allowed to accumulate; additional containers may be needed if overflow is an issue.\nFurthermore, each container should only contain one type of medical waste; mixed containers are prohibited. All containers must also be inspected regularly for tears or bulging that could indicate potential contamination issues due to improper closure or hazardous reactions within the container itself.\nBy developing facilities’ medical waste management practices that include regular assessments, access control measures, careful surveillance of inventory levels, proper labeling procedures, and information education sessions for personnel involved in the handling or disposal of medical waste materials, healthcare facilities can improve their safety environment for everyone involved.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Joshua is the kind of person that every leader would want to have by their side. He shared a relationship with Moses that no one ever had. This close relationship with Moses resulted in him having a similar relationship with God that he had.\nJoshua’s story is woven throughout the Pentateuch, but his best-known stories are found in the Old Testament book that is titled after his name. Joshua was a loyal disciple of Moses and he was a great encouragement to his Mentor. He faithfully served as a spy in the land of Canaan, he served as a military leader who fought and won great battles and he became a great leader who ushered the nation of Israel into the Promised Land. Here are some key components of this man’s amazing life.\nBackground of Joshua\nJoshua: The Faithful Disciple\nEvery mentor is doing an excellent job when they have a faithful disciple(s) at their side. Moses is no exception. In the earlier days of his life, Moses was given an enormous God sized task to accomplish. There is no question Moses could have never accomplished what he did without God being present in his life.\nMoses needed loyal men and women around him to accomplish many of the tasks set before him. It is vital for any Spiritual leader to be surrounded by faithful and loyal people to both mentor and disciple. Moses had several… but none more loyal than Joshua. Joshua was Moses’ “go to guy”. If he needed something done and needed it done right and without any lip, Joshua was his man. We do not read anywhere that Joshua ever questioned Moses’ strategies, commands or leadership, no matter how outlandish they may have seemed at the time. He trusted Moses exclusively, because he knew God was with him and he was completely submitted to God.\nIn Exodus 17 Moses tells Joshua to assemble an army and go out and fight the Amalekites, Joshua didn’t look at Moses like he had a third arm growing out of his body… he says, “Yes sir!” When Moses tells Joshua to take some spies and check out the land of Canaan. He did as he was told and he was one of two men who came back with encouraging news about how he felt they could defeat the Canaanites.\nMoses and Joshua had a special bond. Moses would take Joshua with him when he went to the tabernacle to worship God. In Exodus 24:13, Joshua goes up to the Mountain of the Lord with Moses. In 33:11, Joshua stays with Moses in the tent as the Lord speaks to him.\nOverall, Joshua has a deep love and respect for Moses. In return Moses pours his life into this young man and he mentors him to become the next great leader of the nation of Israel and who would inherit the promise of God.\nJoshua: The Faith-Filled Leader\nJoshua was a loyal servant, assistant and successor to Moses. He was not just a loyal man to Moses, he was also a loyal and dependent leader of God. Joshua had to be both a faithful servant and a faith-filled man of God. Joshua was a busy man, he had a full plate both as a Spiritual leader and a military leader. As a result he had to make some pretty tough decisions regarding sin in Israel, and he faced challenges that required a faith that seemed extraordinary.\nThe four key distinctions that made Joshua a faith-filled leader.\nThere is so much more to the life of Joshua than I was unable to touch on. I look at his loyalty to both God and his mentor and I desire to be and to have a Joshua in my life. As followers of Jesus Christ, it is imperative that we be men and women of our word, be people of faith, make tough calls when it comes to the glory of God and be men and women who are willing to pray big faith-filled prayers.\nJeff has been in ministry for well over two decades. He currently serves as Campus Pastor at West Bradenton Baptist Southside Campus in Bradenton, Florida.\nJeff Has authored an Advent Devotional (The Advent of Jesus) and a devotional on the book of James (James: Where Faith and Life Meet). Both are available on Amazon.\nHe is married to Carrie and they have four children, Micaiah, Gabe, Simon, and Berea.\nPreview or purchase Jeff's Books", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Epilepsy is a disorder where recurrent seizures are caused by abnormal electrical discharges from the brain. Evidence from randomised controlled trials (well-designed clinical trials in which people are allocated at random to test a specific drug, treatment or other intervention) are often used to examine how effective and safe antiepileptic medicines are in people who experience such seizures. This review included 12 studies and data from 2607 people with focal seizures (seizures that occur in just one part of the brain).\nData from six of the studies were combined in the analysis. All the participants (including adults and children) were previously taking at least one antiepileptic medicine and all were continuing to have seizures. Either gabapentin (an antiepileptic medicine) or a placebo (a tablet that contains no medicine) was added to the medicine regimen.\nThe results showed that gabapentin effectively reduced seizures when used as an additional treatment. Compared to a placebo, gabapentin was almost twice as likely to reduce seizures by 50% or more. The most common side effects associated with gabapentin ware ataxia (poor co-ordination and unsteady gait), dizziness, fatigue and drowsiness.\nQuality of the evidence\nOverall the quality of evidence was low to moderate as information was not reported for all participants in some of the trials and some of the results were imprecise. Research is needed into the effects of the long-term use of gabapentin.\nThe evidence is current to 20 March 2018.\nGabapentin has efficacy as an add-on treatment in people with drug-resistant focal epilepsy. However, the trials reviewed were of relatively short duration and provide no evidence for the long-term efficacy of gabapentin beyond a three-month period. The results cannot be extrapolated to monotherapy or to people with other epilepsy types.\nThis is an updated version of the Cochrane Review previously published in 2013.\nMost people with epilepsy have a good prognosis and their seizures are well controlled by a single antiepileptic drug, but up to 30% develop drug-resistant epilepsy, especially those with focal seizures. In this review, we summarised the evidence from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of gabapentin, when used as an add-on treatment for drug-resistant focal epilepsy.\nTo evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of gabapentin when used as an add-on treatment for people with drug-resistant focal epilepsy.\nFor the latest update, we searched the Cochrane Register of Studies (CRS Web, 20 March 2018), which includes the Cochrane Epilepsy Group's Specialized Register and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE (Ovid, 1946 to 20 March 2018), ClinicalTrials.gov (20 March 2018) and the World Health Organization International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP, 20 March 2018). We imposed no language restrictions.\nRandomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, add-on trials of gabapentin in people with drug-resistant focal epilepsy. We also included trials using an active drug control group or comparing different doses of gabapentin.\nFor this update, two review authors independently selected trials for inclusion and extracted the relevant data. We assessed the following outcomes: seizure frequency, seizure freedom, treatment withdrawal (any reason) and adverse effects. Primary analyses were intention-to-treat. We also undertook sensitivity best-case and worst-case analyses. We estimated summary risk ratios (RR) for each outcome and evaluated dose-response in regression models.\nWe included 12 trials representing 2607 randomised participants. We combined data from six trials in meta-analyses of 1206 randomised participants. The overall RR for reduction in seizure frequency of 50% or more compared to placebo was 1.89 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.40 to 2.55; 6 trials, 1206 participants; moderate-quality evidence). Dose regression analysis (for trials in adults) showed increasing efficacy with increasing dose, with 25.3% (19.3 to 32.3) of people responding to gabapentin 1800 mg compared to 9.7% on placebo, a 15.5% increase in response rate (8.5 to 22.5). The RR for treatment withdrawal compared to placebo was 1.05 (95% CI 0.74 to 1.49; 6 trials, 1206 participants; moderate-quality evidence). Adverse effects were significantly associated with gabapentin compared to placebo. RRs were as follows: ataxia 2.01 (99% CI 0.98 to 4.11; 3 studies, 787 participants; low-quality evidence), dizziness 2.43 (99% CI 1.44 to 4.12; 6 studies, 1206 participants; moderate-quality evidence), fatigue 1.95 (99% CI 0.99 to 3.82; 5 studies, 1161 participants; low-quality evidence) and somnolence 1.93 (99% CI 1.22 to 3.06; 6 studies, 1206 participants; moderate-quality evidence). There were no significant differences for the adverse effects of headache (RR 0.79, 99% CI 0.46 to 1.35; 6 studies, 1206 participants; moderate-quality evidence) or nausea (RR 0.95, 99% CI 0.52 to 1.73; 4 trials, 1034 participants; moderate-quality evidence). Overall, the studies were rated at low to unclear risk of bias due to information on each risk of bias domain not being available. We judged the overall quality of evidence (using the GRADE approach) as low to moderate due to potential attrition bias resulting from missing outcome data and imprecise results with wide confidence intervals.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "a grayish-white crystalline deposit of frozen water vapor formed in clear still weather on vegetation, fences, etc.\nAfter the Solstice: DECEMBER’S FULL COLD MOON\nWHAT IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE?\nThe word solstice comes from Latin sol “sun” and sistere “to stand still.” In the Northern Hemisphere, as summer advances to winter, the points on the horizon where the Sun rises and sets advance southward each day; the high point in the Sun’s daily path across the sky, which occurs at local noon, also moves southward each day.\nAt the winter solstice (Friday, December 21st, 2018), the Sun’s path has reached its southernmost position. The next day, the path will advance northward. However, a few days before and after the winter solstice, the change is so slight that the Sun’s path seems to stay the same, or stand still. The Sun is directly overhead at “high-noon” on Winter Solstice at the latitude called the Tropic of Capricorn.\nThe Full Moon for December 2018 rises on the 22nd at 12:49 PM—very near the winter solstice this year! It will be close to full (95%) on Christmas Eve. Traditionally, this Moon is called the Full Cold Moon because it is the full moon closest to the Winter Solstice.\nDon’t forget to shake your wallet at the moon to come into money. And keep in mind the days will be getting longer from here onward!\nA “Thank You” to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, Refinery 29 and Google!\nFrozen elegance in Bryant Park!\nThis year was the coldest Thanksgiving since November 30th, 1871.\nAccording to the National Weather Service, that year there was a low of 15 F(-9.4 C) and a high of 22 F(-5.55 C) .\nThis year’s windchill took the temperatures downward.\nBlack Friday started out chilly (17 F or -8.3 C) — after this Frozen Moment we are back to 50 F (10 C).\nYet, dievca did cycle to work and Jury duty…\nAnd people wonder why they are sick~\nPhotos: dievca Bryant Park fountain 11/2018", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The discrete elements of nature are the negative and positive unit potential point charges, aka the electrino and positrino, respectively. These point charges continuously emit an electric potential field from their current position (t, s). That electric potential expands spherically at a radial speed @.\nGeometrically each expanding spherical potential is defined as a Dirac sphere, which is a term I coined. I presume there may already be a geometrical object for this purpose, and will update the terminology once I become aware.\nThe electrino emits a Dirac sphere which propagates from (t, s) with radial velocity @ and has value –δ/r where r = @ times Δt, where Δt is the absolute time since the potential was first emitted on the path of the electrino.\nLikewise, the positrino emits a Dirac sphere which propagates from (t, s) with radial velocity @ and has value +δ/r where r = @ times Δt, where Δt is the absolute time since the potential was first emitted on the path of the positrino.\nA unit potential emits a continuous stream of Dirac sphere potentials along its path history in space and time. When a Dirac sphere potential stream encounters a point charge, action occurs. Each point charge may be considered to be constantly encountering the Dirac sphere stream of itself and every other point charge in the universe.\nThe path history of velocity of the point charge that emitted the Dirac sphere stream determines the vector potential. The velocity of the point charge that encounters a Dirac sphere stream is a factor in determining the action upon the point charge.\nIf a point charge is traveling at a velocity v < @ then it stays within the spheres of it’s own Dirac sphere stream and no self action occurs, or rather the action is null.\nWhen the velocity of a point charge exceeds @, then the point charge is outside the spheres it has just emitted and is exploring its own prior emissions in a path dependent fashion and self action occurs.\nWhen the velocity of a point charge equals @ this is a symmetry breaking point, since self action will change the point charge velocity.\nNote that there are no infinities at small r nor zeros at large r. The magnitude of each Dirac sphere is somewhere on the |δ/r| curve. That said, at large distances, the magnitude is a very small real number and not only that superposition of negative and positive unit potentials will tend to cancel out.\nLocally we think about action in terms of the path history of all significantly interacting point charges, including the self, where ‘significantly’ is defined relative to the scale of the problem to be solved. In this way we can compute each individual action and then sum all the action to determine how the point charge will move along its path.\nAs a matter of convenience, we define the term ‘aura‘ as the scalar and vector potentials that result from the superposition of all Dirac spheres at the current location of the point charge, i.e. (t,s), beyond those point charges in an assembly or set of local assemblies. That is to say, “aura” represents the churning background potential from far enough away to not be part of the typical behaviour of the assembly or reaction. The aura certainly has influence on the path of point charges, but that influence is generally very small compared to the nearby point charges. Occasionally superposition can result in a change in the aura that is in the right location and the right time and with the right magnitude to influence a reaction.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Over the last thirty-five years, state and local government spending on prisons and jails has increased more than three times faster than spending in education for pre-kindergarten through grade twelve, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Education (ED). At the postsecondary education level, spending on corrections grew nearly twenty times faster over a shorter time frame (School Years (SYs) 1989–90 to 2012–13).\nThe report partly attributes the increase in corrections spending to the “enactment of additional, often lengthy mandatory minimum sentence laws.” As a result, the number of people incarcerated in state and local correctional facilities more than quadrupled, rising from about 490,000 in 1980 to more than 2 million in 2014—even as crime rates declined by more than 50 percent between 1980 and 2014.\nLinkages Exist Between Poor Educational Outcomes and Incarceration\nOf the people who are incarcerated, a large percentage are high school dropouts. According to a 2013 report from the Alliance for Excellent Education, 56 percent of federal inmates, 67 percent of inmates in state prisons, and 69 percent of inmates in local jails did not complete high school. Additionally, the report finds that the number of incarcerated individuals without a high school diploma is increasing over time.\n“If the nation made a comparable investment in effort and dollars in schools as it does in jails and prisons, the return would be decreased levels of criminal activity and incarceration as well as significant and life-changing impacts on the individual,” reads Saving Futures, Saving Dollars.\nThe return would also be significant from a financial standpoint. In fact, the nation could save as much as $18.5 billion in annual crime costs if the high school male graduation rate increased by only 5 percentage points.\nAmong Individual States, Dramatic Differences in Spending on Education and Corrections\nUpon examining individual states, the ED report finds spending differences that exceed 500 percentage points in the five states shown in the table 1 below. In total, twelve states posted differences of 300 or more percentage points. The states with the smallest spending differences were Massachusetts (63 percentage points), Connecticut (87 percentage points), and New York (88 percentage points).\nWhen reporting the data on a per-capita basis to adjust for increases in the population, the report finds smaller percentage increases in spending, but gaps between education spending and corrections spending that remain very large. As shown in the image below, four states (South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, and Wyoming) continue to post differences that were greater than 300 percentage points. Notably, only two states (Massachusetts and New Hampshire) saw spending on pre-K–12 grow at a faster pace than spending on corrections.\n“All too often, children growing up in poor communities not only do poorly in school, but also are disproportionately arrested and incarcerated during their teenage and young adult years,” the report notes. “Even for offenses for which there are few differences by race or ethnicity in the likelihood of committing a crime, individuals of color—black youth in particular—are more likely than white individuals to be arrested and receive longer sentences for the same offenses.”\nCiting a “large body of research,” the report notes that incarceration’s effectiveness in reducing future crime is “particularly weak,” with a 10 percent increase in incarceration accountable for only a 2 percent reduction in crime. Investments in education, however, can “reduce criminal activity by altering student behavior and improving labor market outcomes,” the report notes.\nThe Alliance report backs up this finding. In addition to saving $18.5 billion in annual crime costs, Saving Futures, Saving Dollars finds that increasing the male high school graduation rate by 5 percentage points would decrease overall annual incidences of assault by nearly 60,000; larceny by more than 37,000; motor vehicle theft by more than 31,000; and burglaries by more than 17,000. It would also prevent nearly 1,300 murders, more than 3,800 occurrences of rape, and more than 1,500 robberies.\nA life of crime might not pay, but as these studies show, investments in education do.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "| Last updated\nAs we all learned from Jason Statham's important - and totally historically accurate - film The Meg, megalodons were absolutely huge sharks that existed in prehistoric times.\nTo make such a find, and in such condition, just wandering out and about is nothing short of incredible.\nHowever, that's exactly what Jessica Rose-Standafer Owens and her husband Simon Chandley Owens did as they were walking along the bed of the Stono River just outside of Charleston.\nThey spotted a grey mass jutting out of the muddy riverbed, and decided that it looked just like a 'shark tooth'.\nThat's pretty much exactly what it is.\nDuring a video filmed for her TikTok, Jessica said: \"If it's a tooth, it's going to be like biggest one we have ever found.\"\nAs she brushed back the dirt, the find was revealed, and it is seriously impressive.\nYou wouldn't fancy sharing the water with whatever has the mouth that thing came out of.\nThey've measured it up, and this single tooth comes in at 5.75 inches long. That's just one tooth out of the hundreds that the megalodon would have once possessed.\nShe then shared the video on Facebook, and you can see how excited she was to have made the find. Both of them can be heard to audibly gasp as their haul is revealed.\nJessica-Rose even exclaimed: \"I am literally about to cry.\"\nUpon realising what they'd discovered, they shared the vid on Facebook, where The Mace Brown Museum of Natural History at the College of Charleston responded: \"That's a great meg find - finds like that are why Charleston is known as the megalodon capital of the world!\"\nWow, let's hope that is on the 'Welcome To Charleston' sign, right?\nThe museum added: \"Well done, we can tell you were excited! As for an age, it's likely weathered out of the Goose Creek Limestone, so Pliocene in age (~3-5 million years old).\"\nThe megalodon was the largest shark that ever lived on this planet, and could measure up to 60 feet in length, that's three times the size of the great white shark.\nThe earliest megalodon fossils that have ever been uncovered were from about 20 million years ago.\nChosen for YouChosen for You\nMost Read StoriesMost Read", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Definition of 'Imputed Cost'\nA cost that is incurred by virtue of using an asset instead of investing it or undertaking an alternative course of action. An imputed cost is an invisible cost that is not incurred directly, as opposed to an explicit cost, which is incurred directly.\nImputed cost is also known as \"implied cost\" or \"opportunity cost\".\nInvestopedia explains 'Imputed Cost'\nFor example, businesses that were created decades ago may own very valuable real estate in the downtown core. The imputed cost for such businesses is equal to the interest that the business would earn if those funds were invested. Another example of an imputed cost is that of a worker's decision to go back to school. The imputed cost in this case is the loss of wages.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cable Landing Station is one important component of a submarine cable system which comprises of Wet Plant and Dry Plant.\nThe Dry Plant of a submarine cable system is a segment between the beach manhole and the cable landing station, comprises of land cable, power feeding equipment (PFE) and submarine line terminal equipment(SLTE), etc. The Wet Plant of a submarine cable system lies between the beach manholes, consists of submarine cable, repeater/gain equalizer, branching unit. A typical schematic of a submarine cable system is shown below.\nThe PFE and the SLTE of a submarine cable system are installed at the cable landing station. In some cases, the PFE is installed at a cable landing station nearby the cable landing site, while the SLTE may be installed in another cable landing station much faraway. For example, the terminal station at Hillsboro for the SLTE of the TPE cable system is about 150 mile away from the cable landing site at Nedonna Beach.\nMultiple submarine cable systems may share the same cable landing stations. The submarine cable system is connected with the terrestrial network at the cable landing station, through the so called backhaul system.\nThe cable landing site is usually carefully chosen to be in areas:\nMultiple types of submarine cables may be used in a submarine cable system, subject to depth of the seabed where the cable lies.\nThe double armored submarine cable is used at the shore-end, terminated at the beach manhole at the cable landing site, and is interconnected with much lighter land cable going onward to the cable landing station.\nIn most of the jurisdictions worldwide, the cable landing license is required to land a submarine cable.\nThere are now the following submarine cables landing in Mainland China:\nCables to the US:\nCables connecting Asia：\nCables to Africa and Europe：\nThe cables land at 9 submarine cable landing stations in China.\nChina Telecom owns three cable landing stations, including\nChina Unicom owns four cable landing stations, including:\nChina Mobile owns two cable landing stations:\nThere are now 15 submarine cables landing in 7 cable landing stations in Taiwan:\nGlobal internet giants and operators have heavy investments in Taiwan.\nGoogle has two hyperscale data centers in Taiwan, one in Changhua County which costs US$780 million and was completed in 2013, the other in Tainan Technology Industrial Park which will cost US$850 million, with a power supply of 10MW. So, Google builds two subsea cable connecting Taiwan and the US, FASTER and PLCN. Google also acquies huge capacity on other subsea cables connectign Taiwan.\nBesides local operators including Chunghwa Telecom, Far EasTone Telecom (NCIC), etc., Telstra represents a key player on submarine cable business in Taiwan, its EAC-C2C network landing in 4 cable landing stations in Taiwan, and being HKA landing party in Taiwan.\nGeographically, the east and south coast of Taiwan island is of significant importance for the submarine networks, and is also a high-risk region for the submarine networks due to the characteristics of the geology of Taiwan.\nThe east and south of Taiwan are a complex system of belts formed by, and part of the zone of, active collision between the North Luzon Through portion of the Luzon Volcanic Arc and South China, where accreted portions of the Luzon Arc and Luzon forearc form the eastern Coastal Range and parallel inland Longitudinal Valley of Taiwan respectively. This region is encountered frequent seismic faults which may caused serious harmful impact to the submarine networks. For example, the magnitude 7.0 Hengchun Earthquake in December 2006 resulted in 18 cable cuts in 8 submarine cable systems, atastrophically disrupted Internet services in Asia and Pan-Pacific regions.\nBrunei Darussalam is shaping up as a bandwidth transit hub for the Bornean States of Sabah, Sarawak and Kalimantan. Terrestrial fibre optic cables connect these Bornean States to Brunei cable landing stations which then provide direct connectivity to 9 international destinations, namely Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Japan, China and USA.\nThe Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry (AITI) facilitates the deployment of telecommunication infrastructure and services, including submarine cables, in Brunei. An Infrastructure Provider for the Telecommunication Industry (InTi) is required to deploy a submarine cable system into Brunei.\nAs of January 2020, Brunei Darussalam is connected to 4 active submarine cable systems, with a potential bandwidth capacity of 10 Tbps. These 4 submarine cable systems are landed in two cable landing sites in Brunei, namely the Tungku landing site and the Telisai landing site.\nThere are currently two cable landing stations:\nThere are now four submarine cables connecting Brunei:\nRiding on the strong growth in IP-based traffic, Brunei has successfully lighted up 10 Tbps of international capacity to fuel bandwidth demand.\nBrunei’s geographical location with no history of natural disasters like typhoons and earthquakes, and substantially lower power costs, presented the sultanate with added advantages as a connectivity and transit hub for the underserved regions of Borneo Island and the BIMP-EAGA (Brunei Indonesia Malaysia Philippines East Asia Growth Area)\nBrunei is connected Sabah and Sarawak of Malaysia and the West Kalimantan Province of Indonesia with terrestrial connectivity via the border crossing of Sungai Tujoh, and with commercial traffic of 1 Tbps.\nGuam is a natural hub and communication gateway for trans-Pacific telecommunications. On this 212-square-mile island, Guam arguably has one of the most extensive telecom infrastructures in the Asia Pacific region and most areas throughout the United States.\nThere are following cable landing stations in Guam:\nThere are 7 cable landing stations in Hawaii Islands, including\nCable landing stations in the Big Island:\nCable landing stations in Honolulu - Oahu Island：\nAmerican Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa (formerly known as Western Samoa). The 2000 census showed a total population of 57,291 people. The total land area is 76.1 square miles (197.1 km2). American Samoa is the southernmost territory of the United States.\nThere is one international fiber optic cable between American Samoa, Samoa and Hawaii, the ASH/SAS Cable, and connects America Samoa to the existing global telecommunications infrastructure networks.\nThe ASH/SAS Cable lands at the Pago Pago Cable Landing Station.\nSamoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa and German Samoa, is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in Polynesia, Savai'i. The capital city, Apia, and Faleolo International Airport are situated on the island of Upolu.\nSamoa is connected into the global submarine networks with the Samoa American Samoa Cable (SAS Cable), and onward connectivity with the American Samoa Hawaii Cable (ASH Cable).\nThe ASH/SAS Cable lands at the Apia Cable Landing Station.\nFrench Polynesia is an overseas collectivity or constituent country of the French Republic. It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory (Papeete).\nThere are several cable landing stations in French Polynesia, including Vaitape, Uturoa, Huahine, Moorea and Papenoo cable landing stations.\nThe Papenoo Cable Landing Station in Tahiti island is the cable landing station for the Honotua submarine cable connecting French Polynesia and Hawaii, with onward connectivity to link French Polynesia with global submarine networks.\nIt is currently one international submarine cable linking Papua New Guinea, i.e., the PPC-1 cable landing at the Madang Cable Landing Station in Papua New Guinea.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Prof. M.E.G. Lyons\nDependence of rate on concentration. Revision of definitions of order of reaction and reaction rate constants. Initial rate and integrated rate equation methods. Pseudo-nth order reactions.\nExperimental Methods. Physical monitoring of reaction. Use of conductivity and spectrophotometric methods. Introduction to experimental methods for fast reactions.\nMulti-step reactions. Competitive and consecutive reaction steps. Reactive intermediates and the steady state principle. Relevance to gas phase (atmospheric), and polymerisation chemistry, Oscillating reactions, and Catalysis.\nDependence of rate on temperature. Arrhenius Equation. Activation energy and Arrhenius (pre-exponential) factor.\nTheory of Chemical Reaction Rates. Bimolecular reactions. Simple collision theory and Activated Complex Theory (Thermodynamic Formulation). Potential energy surfaces, DeltaH & DeltaS of activation.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "MANSOOR, JIM K.; ELDRIDGE, MARLOWE W.; YONEDA, KEN Y.; SCHELEGLE, ED S.; WOOD, STEVE C.\nAscent to altitude is characterized by reductions in the PIO2 leading to changes in breathing pattern that are often accompanied by sensations of dyspnea, often described as “air hunger” or “breathlessness”(21). The mechanisms responsible for sensations of dyspnea in normal healthy individuals have not been fully elucidated. Ascent to altitude presents the individual with a variety of stimuli, including hypoxia because of the reduced barometric pressure, cold, and decreases in relative humidity, which may result in different or additional mechanisms being responsible for dyspneic sensations. For example, both subclinical interstitial edema and clinically relevant alveolar edema can occur with ascent to altitude, particularly if accompanied by exercise (10). The lung edema can stimulate a variety of pulmonary afferent fibers (5) that could potentially play a role in both the breathing pattern changes and sensations of dyspnea experienced by individuals at altitude. To our knowledge, there has been no attempt made to examine the mechanisms behind sensations of dyspnea experienced by individuals on either acute ascent to altitude or after prolonged acclimatization to altitude.\nA variety of mechanisms have been proposed to explain dyspnea. One mechanism proposes that pulmonary receptors may be responsible for dyspneic sensations. Guz et al. (9) showed that bilateral vagal and glossopharyngeal blockade in conscious humans reduced the sensations of respiratory discomfort associated with breath-holding. However, Banner et al. (4) showed similar intensities in sensations of breathlessness in heart-lung transplant patients compared with heart transplant patients and healthy controls. In addition, Winning et al. (22) showed no significant reduction in dyspneic sensations after delivery of bupivacaine aerosol in exercising humans. Although these studies suggest that pulmonary vagal afferents do not play a significant role in sensations of dyspnea at sea level, the role that these receptors play in respiratory-related sensations at altitude has never been studied in humans and may be potentially important. Rapid ascent to altitude combined with heavy exercise can significantly increase pulmonary arterial and wedge pressures (8), which in turn may lead to increases in interstitial (3) or pulmonary edema (20). Lung edema has been shown to be an important stimulus for both pulmonary C-fibers (5) and rapidly adapting receptors (17).\nThe purpose of this study was to examine respiratory-related sensations in men and women on acute ascent to altitude and after prolonged acclimatization to altitude. We examined the intensity and type of respiratory-related sensations using nine different respiratory-related descriptors adopted from Simon et al. (18) in seven male and five female subjects after acute ascent to 3500 m and after prolonged acclimatization at 5000 m. These sensations were examined in the presence and absence of inhaled aerosolized tetracaine in order to determine if airway pulmonary afferents play a role in these responses. Additionally, we examined these sensations at rest and during exercise to increase the hypoxic stress and in turn the respiratory-related sensations experienced by the subjects.\nSeven male subjects (age, 33 ± 9 yr (mean ± SD); weight, 71 ± 5 kg; height, 176 ± 5 cm) and five female subjects (age, 31 ± 5 yr; weight, 57 ± 9 kg; height, 162 ± 7 cm) between the ages of 16 and 41 yr gave their informed written consent to participate in this study, which was approved by the Institutional Review Board at Summa Health System Foundation of Akron, OH. All of the subjects were healthy and free of disease at the start of the study. All but three subjects exercised regularly before the expedition. Six subjects had little experience at altitude, never having been above 2400 m, whereas the other six subjects had been above 3600 m hiking, skiing, or climbing on many occasions (at least 5–10 times). Of those that had been above 3600 m, three had experienced acute mountain sickness. None of the subjects had a history of high altitude pulmonary or cerebral edema before the start of the study.\nDuring the study, one of the male subjects developed high-altitude pulmonary edema and was safely evacuated to Leh Hospital, where he recovered completely. There are no data from this subject beyond 3500 m. There are also no data from a second male subject at sea level because of complications in collecting these data. When possible, their data were included in the data analysis.\nExpedition and ascent profile.\nThe subjects left the United States at different times in the Spring of 1998 and gathered in Delhi, India, on May 30, 1998. Sea level data was collected on five of the subjects in Delhi, India, whereas the sea level data from six subjects were collected at the University of California, Davis (Davis, CA). All of the subjects then flew to the city of Leh in the Ladakh region of northern India. Leh is located at an elevation of approximately 3500 m. The subjects spent the first day in Leh relaxing and sightseeing. On the following 2 d, data were collected on all of the subjects (Fig. 1).\nFrom Leh, the subjects and investigators drove to Tsomuri, a lake located a day’s drive from Leh at an elevation of 4540 m. The next 14 d were spent trekking in the Himalayas between the elevations of approximately 4000 and 5400 m. A high camp was established at the base of Kang Yaze at an elevation of approximately 5000 m, where the final data were collected over the course of 2 d. Subjects thus had 18 d of acclimatization at elevations ranging from 3500–5400 m (Fig. 1).\nResearch design and general protocol.\nData were collected at three different elevations: sea level, 3500 m, and 5000 m. At each of these elevations, subjects gargled with Dyclone (0.5% dyclonine HCl), a topical anesthetic for mucous membranes, and then inhaled either aerosolized tetracaine or normal saline before data collection. Subjects were randomized in a single-blind fashion to determine which treatment they would receive for that given day, either aerosolized tetracaine or normal saline, and the other treatment was given on the following day. After the aerosol treatment, subjects rated on a 0–10 modified Borg scale the intensity of each of the following respiratory-related descriptors:\n“I feel my breathing is rapid.”\n“My breath does not go out all the way.”\n“My breathing requires more concentration.”\n“My breathing is shallow.”\n“My breathing requires more work.”\n“My chest feels tight.”\n“I feel a hunger for more air.”\n“My breathing is heavy.”\n“I am gasping for breath.”\nA zero rating meant an absence of the sensation and a 10 rating meant the sensation was felt as strongly as possible. Heart rate and peripheral O2 saturation (SpO2) was monitored continuously. Subjects then breathed 3% aerosolized saline and a sputum sample was collected for substance P analysis. Each subject then exercised at four different exercise workloads for 3 min, with 3 min of rest between bouts. At the end of each exercise bout, subjects again rated the intensity of respiratory-related descriptors, and heart rates and SpO2 data were recorded. At the end of the exercise bouts, subjects again breathed 3% aerosolized saline and a second sputum sample was collected for substance P analysis.\nBefore inhaling either tetracaine or saline, subjects gargled with 15 mL of Dyclone for approximately 2 min in order to disguise which aerosolized solution they were receiving. Subjects then inhaled either 5 mL of 0.9% sterile saline as a sham anesthesia or 5 mL of 0.9% sterile saline with 20 mg of tetracaine added for a concentration of 4 mg·mL−1. Subjects inhaled the solutions from either a DeVilbiss 35b or 99 nebulizer over the course of 5–10 min until the nebulizer was empty. Subjects inhaled the aerosolized solution through their mouths while wearing nose clips.\nSubjects inhaled 3% saline before and after exercise and brought up sputum from the deep lung to be analyzed for substance P concentration. Because of technical errors, substance P values were not obtained.\nSubjects performed step exercise at four different workloads. Male subjects exercised at rates of 22, 26, 32, and 38 steps·min−1, and female subjects exercised at rates of 18, 24, 30, and 36 steps·min−1. The box step height was 30.5 cm. One complete step cycle consisted of stepping from the ground onto the box with both feet, legs extended, and back down to the ground. Subjects were instructed to alternate legs used to step up onto the box to prevent fatigue in one leg. Each work bout lasted 3 min, with 3 min of rest between bouts. Some subjects were not able to finish the last work bout, especially at 5000 m. Only the third work bout was used for the analyses. The average power for this work bout was 85.8 ± 12.7 W for female subjects and 113.7 ± 8.3 W for male subjects.\nAll data were initially analyzed using a three-way ANOVA with repeated measures (StatView 5, SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, NC). Independent factors for this initial analysis were barometric pressure (sea level vs 3500 m for acute altitude exposure or sea level vs 5000 m for prolonged altitude exposure), gender (male vs female), and treatment (saline vs tetracaine). Separate three-way ANOVAs were performed for acute and prolonged altitude exposure and for rest and exercise. The third exercise bout was used for all exercise analyses. After this initial analysis, it was found that there was no significant effect of tetracaine on any of the variables studied; as a consequence, all data were reanalyzed using a two-way ANOVA with repeated measures. In order to identify mean differences, multiple paired t-tests were performed using an appropriate Bonferroni correction factor. The level of significance was set at P ≤ 0.05. All data are presented as means ± SD.\nAcute exposure to 3500 m.\nAcute exposure to altitude of approximately 3500 m resulted in an increase in resting heart rate in both male and female subjects (Table 1). This increase in resting heart rate approached statistical significance (P = 0.06). SpO2 at rest on acute exposure to 3500 m was significantly lower than at sea level. Acute mountain sickness scores using the Lake Louise scoring system were higher for female subjects than for male subjects on acute exposure to altitude.\nHeart rate and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) during exercise at 3500 m was significantly higher than during sea level exercise (Table 1). Additionally, SpO2 was lower during exercise at 3500 m than at sea level. These findings indicate both a physiological hypoxic stress as well as a psychological or perceived whole-body stress.\nSubjects also perceived a change in the intensity of specific respiratory-related sensations when going from sea level to 3500 m. Of the nine respiratory-related sensation descriptors, the descriptor “I feel my breathing is rapid” was rated higher at 3500 m than at sea level during rest (Fig. 2). During exercise at 3500 m, subjects rated four respiratory-related descriptors as being more intense than at sea level: “I feel my breathing is rapid,” “I feel a hunger for more air,” “My breathing is heavy,” and “My chest feels tight.” These higher ratings may be an indication that dyspnea on acute exposure to altitude is associated with respiratory sensations of rapid, heavy breathing, air hunger, and chest tightness. Inhalation of tetracaine had no effect on any of the dependent variables.\nProlonged acclimatization to 5000 m.\nAfter 18 d of acclimatization at elevations between 3500 and 5400 m, resting heart rates of male and female subjects remained higher at 5000 m compared with sea level, but this difference was not significant (Table 1). SpO2 was significantly lower at 5000 m than at sea level during rest. In the only comparison made between 3500 m and 5000 m, acute mountain sickness scores at rest were significantly lower after prolonged acclimatization than after acute exposure to altitude.\nInterestingly, there was no significant difference between exercise heart rates at 5000 m and sea level (Table 1). SpO2 during exercise, however, was significantly lower at 5000 m than at sea level. In addition, RPE during exercise was higher at 5000 m than at sea level.\nIt is also interesting to note that after acclimatization, none of the respiratory-related sensation descriptors were significantly different in intensity than that perceived at sea level during rest. During exercise at 5000 m, however, four respiratory-related sensation descriptors were rated as being significantly more intense than at sea level: “I feel my breathing is rapid,” “I feel a hunger for more air,” “My breathing is heavy,” and “I am gasping for breath” (Fig. 3). The first three, namely, rapid, heavy, and air hunger, were also rated by subjects as being more intense than at sea level during acute exposure to 3500 m. The descriptor “My chest feels tight” was no longer perceived as more intense than at sea level during exercise after acclimatization, but subjects felt a sensation related to gasping during exercise at 5000 m. Again, tetracaine had no significant effect on any of the dependent variables.\nThe purpose of this study was to examine respiratory-related sensations after acute exposure and prolonged acclimatization to altitude. We examined the intensity and type of respiratory-related sensations in the presence and absence of aerosolized tetracaine during rest and exercise at sea level, after acute ascent to 3500 m, and after 18 d of acclimatization at 5000 m. This is the first study that we are aware of that has attempted to differentiate respiratory-related sensations at altitude and also examine the role played by airway receptors in these sensations.\nThe respiratory response to altitude consists of hyperventilation caused by hypoxic stimulation of peripheral chemoreceptors. This response occurs on acute exposure to altitude and continues after acclimatization (20). Because of this physiological response, individuals often become aware of respiratory-related sensations, termed “dyspnea.” The terms “breathlessness” and “air hunger” are often used generically by researchers to describe the respiratory-related sensations experienced by individuals at altitude (21) and during exercise (1). In this study, we attempted to differentiate between respiratory-related sensations at sea level and altitude during rest and exercise by having subjects rate the intensity of nine different respiratory-related sensation descriptors adopted from Simon et al. (18) in the presence and absence of airway anesthesia with tetracaine. We found that during resting conditions after acute exposure to 3500 m subjects rated “I feel my breathing is rapid” significantly higher than at sea level, and that this difference was no longer significant after acclimatization at 5000 m. This indicates that healthy subjects at rest only experience a dyspneic sensation after acute exposure to altitude, and that the mechanisms responsible adapt on acclimatization. Others have also shown adaptation of respiratory-related sensations with prolonged altitude exposure (7,14,15,21). Interestingly, the descriptors “I feel a hunger for more air” and “I am gasping for breath,” descriptors similar to air hunger and breathlessness, were not significantly different from sea level at either 3500 m or 5000 m during rest.\nWe had subjects exercise during this study in an attempt to increase their hypoxic stress. Our subjects had significant reductions in oxygen saturations because of both altitude and exercise (Table 1). During exercise at both 3500 m and 5000 m, subjects rated three respiratory-related sensation descriptors significantly higher than at sea level: “I feel my breathing is rapid,” “My breathing is heavy,” and “I feel a hunger for more air.” Subjects also rated “My chest feels tight” and “I am gasping for breath” significantly higher at 3500 m and 5000 m, respectively, during exercise. It is clear from these results that subjects experienced rapid heavy breathing, and also air hunger (“I feel a hunger for more air”) both during acute altitude exposure and after prolonged acclimatization, as well as breathlessness (“I am gasping for breath”) at 5000 m during exercise. These data seem to indicate that the greater the hypoxic stress, the greater the intensity and variation in dyspneic sensations. This is consistent with studies by Del Volgo and Noel-Jorand (7), who found that exercise in combination with ascent to higher altitudes increased “breathing discomfort” over resting conditions, and Ward and Whipp (19), who found that hypoxia during exercise leads to greater “respiratory difficulty” than exercise alone at the same level of ventilation.\nThe mechanisms responsible for dyspneic sensations have not been fully elucidated. Most theories suggest that input into the CNS from some peripheral afferent receptor and/or central pathway is responsible for respiratory-related sensations (2). One such pathway that has been considered in the genesis of dyspnea is stimulation of pulmonary receptors. Winning et al. (22) showed that breathlessness with exercise and CO2 inhalation was not abolished by inhalation of aerosolized bupivacaine, suggesting that pulmonary afferents in the larger airways are not responsible for dyspneic sensations. Additionally, heart-lung transplant patients are known to experience dyspneic sensations in the absence of an intact vagus nerve (4). With ascent to altitude, however, pulmonary arterial pressures increase (12), which may cause an increase in interstitial water (3,8,12). Increases in interstitial water have been shown to stimulate both rapidly adapting receptors (5,13,17) as well as pulmonary C-fibers (5,16). These fibers, when stimulated, are known to contribute to alterations in breathing pattern (5,16). The extent to which these fibers contribute to sensations of dyspnea when stimulated above basal levels is unknown.\nIn order to determine whether lung C-fibers become more active and contribute to dyspneic sensations with ascent to altitude, we attempted to measure substance P in induced sputum and block lung afferents with tetracaine. Because of technical difficulties, we were not able to obtain reliable measures of substance P in the induced sputum of our subjects. Tetracaine inhalation had no effect on respiratory-related sensations, suggesting that airway lung afferents, either after acute altitude exposure or prolonged acclimatization, play no role in the genesis of dyspnea at altitude. We do not know, however, the extent to which tetracaine inhalation blocked the variety of pulmonary afferent receptors. It is entirely possible that deeper airway or parenchymal afferent receptors, such as pulmonary C-fibers (J receptors), were not blocked by tetracaine inhalation (6,11,22) and continued to contribute to respiratory-related sensations.\nWe would like to acknowledge the guides and Sherpas at Rimo Expeditions of Leh, India, who were invaluable in carrying out this research.\nThis work was supported by Summa Health System Foundation, Akron, OH; a Scholarly Activity & Artistic Grant from the University of the Pacific; and a grant from the Hibbard Williams Research Fund from the University of California, Davis.\nAddress for correspondence: Jim K. Mansoor, Ph.D., Physical Therapy Department, School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA 95211; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org.\n1. Adams, L., and A. Guz. Dyspnea on exertion. In: Exercise: Pulmonary Physiology and Pathophysiology, B. J. Whipp and K. Wasserman (Eds.). New York: Marcel Dekker, 1991, pp. 449–494.\n2. American Thoracic Society. Dyspnea: mechanisms, assessment, and management—a consensus statement. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 159: 321–340, 1999.\n3. Anholm, J. D., E. N. Milne, P. Stark, J. C. Bourne, and P. Friedman. Radiographic evidence of interstitial pulmonary edema after exercise at altitude. J. Appl. Physiol. 86: 503–509, 1999.\n4. Banner, N. R., M. H. Lloyd, R. D. Hamilton, J. A. Innes, A. Guz, and M. H. Yacoub. Cardiopulmonary response to dynamic exercise after heart and combined heart-lung transplantation. Br. Heart J. 61: 215–23, 1989.\n5. Coleridge, H. M., and J. C. G. Coleridge. The control of breathing, part I: reflexes evoked from tracheobronchial tree and lungs. In: Handbook of Physiology, Section 3: The Respiratory System, A. P. Fishman, N. S. Cherniack, J. G. Widdicombe, and S. R. Geiger (Eds.). Bethesda, MD: American Physiological Society, 1986, pp. 395–429.\n6. Cross, B. A., A. Guz, S. K. Jain, S. Archer, J. Stevens, and F. Reynolds. The effect of anaesthesia of the airway in dog and man: a study of respiratory reflexes, sensations and lung mechanics. Clin. Sci. Mol. Med. 50: 439–454, 1976.\n7. Del Volgo, M. J., and M. C. Noel-Jorand. The respiratory sensation at high altitude. Arch. Int. Physiol. Biochim. Biophys. 100: 113–119, 1992.\n8. Eldridge, M. W., A. Podolsky, R. S. Richardson, et al. Pulmonary hemodynamic responses to exercise in subjects with prior high altitude pulmonary edema. J. Appl. Physiol. 81: 911–921, 1996.\n9. Guz, A., M. I. M. Noble, J. H. Eisele, and D. Trechard. Experimental results of vagal block in cardiopulmonary disease. In: Breathing: Hering-Breuer Centenary Symposium, R. Porter (Ed.). London: Churchill, 1970, pp. 315–328.\n10. Hackett, P. H., and R. C. Roach. High altitude pulmonary edema. J. Wilderness Med. 1: 3–26, 1990.\n11. Hamilton, R. D., A. J. Winning, and A. Guz. Blockade of ‘alveolar’ and airway reflexes by local anesthetic aerosol in dogs. Respir. Physiol. 67: 159–170, 1987.\n12. Hultgren, H. N. High altitude pulmonary edema: hemodynamic aspects. Int. J. Sports Med. 18: 20–25, 1997.\n13. Kappagoda, C. T., G. C. W. Man, and K. K. Teo. Behaviour of canine pulmonary vagal afferent receptors during sustained acute pulmonary venous pressure elevation. J. Physiol. 394: 249–265, 1987.\n14. Noel-Jorand, M. C., and H. Burnet. Changes in human respiratory sensation induced by acute high altitude hypoxia. Neuroreport 5: 1562–1566, 1994.\n15. Noel-Jorand, M. C., and H. Burnet. The sensation of respiration in men experiencing high-altitude chronic hypoxia. Biol. Psychol. 43: 1–12, 1996.\n16. Paintal, A. S. The mechanism of excitation of type J receptors and the J reflex. In: Breathing: Hering-Breuer Centenary Symposium, R. Porter (Ed.). London: Churchill, 1970, pp. 59–71.\n17. Ravi K., K. K. Teo, and C. T. Kappagoda. Stimulation of rapidly adapting pulmonary stretch receptors by pulmonary lymphatic obstruction in dogs. Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol. 66: 630–636, 1988.\n18. Simon, P. M., R. M. Schwartzstein, J. W. Weiss, K. Lahive, V. Fencl, M. Teghtsoonian, and S. E. Weinberger. Distinguishable sensations of breathlessness induced in normal volunteers. Am. Rev. Respir. Dis. 140: 1021–1027, 1989.\n19. Ward, S. A., and B. J. Whipp. Effects of peripheral and central chemoreflex activation on the isopneic rating of breathing in exercise in humans. J. Physiol. 411: 27–43, 1989.\n20. West, J. B. Physiological Basis of Medical Practice. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1990, pp. 588–592.\n21. Wilson, R. C., W. L. G. Oldfield, and P. W. Jones. Effect of residence at altitude on the perception of breathlessness on return to sea level in normal subjects. Clin. Sci. 84: 159–167, 1993.\n22. Winning, A. J., R. D. Hamilton, S. A. Shea, C. Knott, and A. Guz. The effect of airway anaesthesia on the control of breathing and the sensation of breathlessness in man. Clin. Sci. 68: 215–225, 1985.\n© 2001 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Nature as Man’s teacher\nContrast the heavy human hammer with the woodpecker’s delicate head. They both deliver the same impact. After thousands of years of ‘research and development’ we always find that nature’s solutions are smarter, more energy-efficient, agile, adaptable, fault-tolerant, eco-friendly and multifunctional.\nThey follow nine basic principles: Nature runs on sunlight, uses only the energy it needs, fits form to function, recycles everything, rewards cooperation, banks on diversity, demands local expertise, curbs excesses from within and taps the power of limits. If we followed these patterns, there would be neither shortage, nor scarcity. \"From a tiny apple pip comes the seedling; from the seedling the plant, from the plant the tree and from the tree the fruit with many more pips to produce many more trees for many more years. The tree leaves decompose to nourish the tree and soil. Abundance all around. Nature knows no scarcity, because it knows no waste.\" Mimicking nature’s strategies could improve the way we grow food, harvest energy, run our businesses and make buildings and materials. The natural model is there, it just needs recognising.\nNature’s creations have given us very elegant engineering solutions. The first suspension bridge across the Niagara came after looking at the suspension web of a spider. Velcro resulted from the observation of burrs sticking to a dog’s fur. A seaside trip showed a scientist how a protein made by mussels enabled them to cling fast to rocks. He realized that tofu could be adapted to make a similar superglue and this produced water-resistant adhesives used for wood composite products. From mother of pearl made of layers of calcium carbonate found in shells, scientists are learning how to make a strong lightweight armour. The \"500-Series Shinkansen\" one of the fastest trains in the world uses bird features. Its nose is fashioned after a kingfisher’s beak and its pantograph (the device which maintains electrical contact with the wire and transfers power from it to the traction unit) on an owl’s wing plumage whose small saw toothed feathers generate small whirlpools that break up the large whirlpools of noise in the air flow that giving the secret to its silent flight. These features reduced air pressure by 30% and electricity use by 15% while increasing speeds by 10% to a silent 300 km/hr!\nGeese flying in formation prompted Chrysler engineers to think about how objects moved against air resistance resulting in the 1934 Chrysler Airflow known as the first ‘streamlined car’. When Mercedes-Benz wanted to create an aerodynamically efficient compact car without sacrificing safety or spaciousness, they studied the bony structure of the boxfish who moves in confined spaces, can withstand high pressure, has a rigid outer skin to protect its body during collisions and despite its angular shape, is an excellent swimmer. The resulting design gave the car body 40% more rigidity whilst making it 30% lighter. Turbine noise was reduced mimicking the large, irregular bumps on the leading edge of humpback whale flippers which reduce turbulence across the surface.\nScientists are trying to make six-legged robots imitate the way a cockroach moves, scampers over rough terrain, and evades obstacles. Lizards run up walls at lightning speeds and hang onto ceilings. Cockroach legs and gecko feet combine for the perfect limb for climbing robots suited for search-and-rescue operations and space exploration. Like snails whose sticky slime on their underbellies allows movement in any direction, a robot comprised of moveable segments on top of a thin layer of synthetic snail sludge is able to climb walls and stick to ceilings. There is a robolobster that imitates how lobsters trace the odour of food to its source and will now be used to track chemicals in water to their source to determine underwater sources of pollution and detect explosives and deep-sea vents.\nOther inventions inspired by animals include airplane wings based on birds whose wing shape depends on how fast they fly; fish-shaped boat hulls made of material that imitates dolphin and shark membranes; torpedoes that swim like tuna; radar and sonar navigation technology and medical imaging inspired by bat echo-location; swim and sportswear that mimic sharkskin; coatings for car windshields as hard as mother of pearl, and solar panels that copy the way leaves collect energy from the sun.\nNature has plenty of lessons for medical science. Millions of people are fitted with new or replacement pacemakers costing lakhs per patient. Now research is exploring how the Humpback’s 2,000-pound heart pumps the equivalent of six bathtubs of oxygenated blood through a circulatory system 4,500 times as extensive as ours keeping a low rate of three to four beats a minute and how electrical stimulation is achieved even through the mass of blubber that shields the whale’s heart from cold. This could result in finding the key to stimulating heartbeats by ‘bridging’ dead heart muscle via special whale-like wiring – an invention that costs a few hundred rupees and replaces pacemakers.\nTwo million children a year die from vaccine-preventable diseases like typhoid and measles. Vaccines require refrigeration and refrigeration breakdowns make half of all vaccines ineffective. Myrothamnus Flabellifolia is an African plant whose tissues can be dried to a crisp then revived without damage because of a sugary substance called trehaloses produced in its cells during drought. Based on the plant’s sugars, scientists have developed fridge-free vaccines that will save lives, money and energy. The vaccine is sprayed with trehalose coating to form inert sugary beads that can be packaged in an injectable form that can safely sit in a doctor’s bag for years. Other applications include new kinds of food preservation.\nA new adhesive, Geckel combines a synthetic version of a mussel gland’s secretion with a gecko type strategy into reusable sticky patches of tape that work wet or dry and can be used instead of sutures for tissue repair. It will replace stitches in surgery, repair cuts and join broken bones. Other potential areas of applications are in retina repair, as a fixative for dental prostheses and for anchoring tissue samples on slides for microscopic examination.\n70% of all human infections are a result of congregations of bacteria that require 1,000 times more antibiotic to kill. These also increase antibiotic resistance causing the rise of super bugs like Staphylococcus Aureus that now kills more people each year than Aids. Delisea Pulchra is a feathery red seaweed found off the Australian coast whose surface is free from clusters of bacteria despite being in polluted waters. It has a compound called halogenated furanone that stops bacteria from signaling to each other to form dense groups. This shows humans how bacteria can be controlled and environmental pollution reduced without using tons of chemicals.\nMan has so much to learn from nature that an entire new field of study has been dedicated to this called biomemetics (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) that studies nature,systems, processes and elements and then imitates or takes creative inspiration from them to create man made solutions. The wasp’s octagonal rooms have led to more economical building design. Dolphin blowholes through which water is ejected has created low flow showers. How much we can learn from other beings. It seems silly to kill our teachers when they have the answers to our technological and sustainability problems.\nTo join the animal welfare\nmovement contact firstname.lastname@example.org", "label": "No"}
{"text": "about WHALE SONGS in space\nHumpback whales are known to make most likely the longest, loudest and slowest songs in nature.continue reading arrow_forward\nBBC’s In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg. This episode: Symmetry\nMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss symmetry. Found in Nature – from snowflakes to butterflies – and in art in the music of Bach and the poems of Pushkin, symmetry is both aesthetically pleasing and an essential tool to understanding our physical world.\nThe Greek philosopher Aristotle described symmetry as one of the greatest forms of beauty to be found in the mathematical sciences, while the French poet Paul Valery went further, declaring; “The universe is built on a plan, the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect”.The story of symmetry tracks an extraordinary shift from its role as an aesthetic model – found in the tiles in the Alhambra and Bach’s compositions – to becoming a key tool to understanding how the physical world works.\nIt provides a major breakthrough in mathematics with the development of group theory in the 19th century. And it is the unexpected breakdown of symmetry at sub-atomic level that is so tantalising for contemporary quantum physicists.So why is symmetry so prevalent and appealing in both art and nature? How does symmetry enable us to grapple with monstrous numbers? And how might symmetry contribute to the elusive Theory of Everything?\nWith Fay Dowker, Reader in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College, London; Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford; Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick.\nLINK to In Our Time, episode Symmetry", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Why does President Trump always shoot himself in the foot? His policies of lower taxes and decreased regulation has the economy on a tear and the stock market booming. He has destroyed ISIS, forced NATO to pay its fair share and kept many of his campaign promises. So why insult African Americans – whose unemployment has plummeted because of his policies – by calling Haiti and Africa a s***hole? President Trump should apologize and allow the 58,000 Haitians given temporary legal status after the earthquake remain in the United States.\nAs a young man, I spent a volunteer year as a physician in Haiti with the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa’s order. I learned the language, culture, diseases and history of these wonderful people. Haiti is a disaster, with massive unemployment, high infant mortality rates, starvation and punishing poverty. But once one understands the history of these proud people, it is hard not to sympathize with their plight.\nHaiti was created by the only successful slave revolt in history. During the 1600s and 1700s when the slave trade flourished, Africa consisted on numerous tribes – some more peaceful than others. The slaves that were brought to Haiti by France came from West African regions of Dahomey and Benin. These tribes were fierce warriors who did not take kindly to being enslaved.\nThus Haiti had constant slave revolts. This culminated in the late 1700s with the Haitians seizing control of their country and killing all their enslavers. It became an independent republic in 1804 but was ostracized by the international community. Napoleon sent an armada to Haiti to crush the revolt. This armada was supposed to then continue to New Orleans and protect the Louisiana Territory. The Haitians destroyed the armada, forcing Napoleon to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States for a cheap price.\nThe ungrateful United States did not recognize Haiti until after the Civil War; for fear that the slave revolt would spread. Thus, Haiti never developed the democratic and legal institutions that allow countries to flourish. Ironically, countries like Barbados and Bermuda – whose enslaved ancestors descended from more docile tribes – tolerated colonialism long enough to become thriving democracies.\nHaiti was slowly improving until the earthquake hit in 2010. Over 200,000 people died and millions were left homeless. The country has yet to recover. As a humanitarian gesture, 58,000 Haitians living in the United States illegally were offered Temporary Protected Status (TPS), giving them work permits and legal status. But recently, President Trump revoked this status.\nPresident Trump is reported to have speculated that many Haitian have AIDS. This too is unfair. When AIDS became an epidemic in the United States, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) in Atlanta came up with four risk groups known as the 4 H’s – homosexuals, heroin addicts (through IV drug injection), hemophiliacs (through blood transfusions) and Haitians. But further research revealed that there was no racial reason for Haitians to have AIDS. The disease was brought to Haiti by gay American tourists. Yet the entire country was ostracized. I will never forget listening to a Haitian business man angrily describe the indignity of having a customs agent use tweezers to open his passport when he visited his family in Florida.\nPresident Trump should do the right thing – apologize to the Haitian people and let those granted temporary status remain in the United States. Haitians are polite and forgiving people. They will accept the President’s apology and get on with their lives.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Number sense is the ability to understand and use numbers in a variety of contexts. It involves being able to recognize patterns, recognize relationships between numbers, and use mental math and estimation strategies to solve problems. Number sense can also involve a knowledge of basic math facts and the ability to use them to solve problems. It is a key part of mathematical fluency, and an important skill for students to learn in order to be successful in math.\nGood Number Sense Versus Poor Number Sense\nGood number sense is the ability to understand and use mathematics effectively, as stated above. Poor number sense, on the other hand, is an inability to understand and work with numerical data. This can lead to difficulty with basic math operations and lead to confusion and frustration when trying to solve problems.\nWhat Does Number Sense Involve?\nNumber sense involves:\nA deep understanding of numbers, including being aware of the magnitude of numbers and the relationships between them.\nThe ability to quickly recognize, compare, and work with numbers.\nBeing able to visualize and calculate mentally.\nUnderstanding the various operations of mathematics, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and how to use them to solve problems.\nBeing able to reason logically and use numbers and operations to solve problems, both in mathematics and in real-world situations.\nThe Number Sense is a great resource to get started.\nWhen Does Number Sense Develop?\nNumber sense is a fundamental cognitive skill that develops in early childhood. It is a foundation for many of the mathematical skills children will need to develop in the future. Number sense generally begins to emerge between the ages of 3 and 4, when children begin to recognize and understand basic numerical concepts such as counting, quantity, and number relationships. As children progress through school, their number sense grows, allowing them to progress to more advanced mathematical concepts.\nWhy Is Number Sense Important for Teachers to Understand?\nNumber sense is an important concept for teachers to understand because it helps them develop a greater understanding of how students learn and think about mathematics. By developing a strong number sense, teachers can better support their students’ learning and easily identify individual students’ strengths and weaknesses in mathematics, allowing them to tailor instruction for each student. Ultimately, number sense is essential for teachers to be able to effectively teach mathematics to their students.\nWhy Is Number Sense Important for Young Math Learners?\nNumber sense helps students develop an intuitive understanding of the relationships between numbers, which can help them to solve problems faster and with more accuracy. It also establishes a strong base for more advanced mathematical concepts and strategies, such as fractions, decimals, and algebra. As students gain a better understanding of the relationship between numbers, they also develop a deeper appreciation of the power of mathematics and its applications in everyday life.\nSome Ideas for Promoting Number Sense in a Grade One Student\nThere are a lot of great ways to promote number sense in a grade one student. Here are some ideas that can help:\nUse visuals to illustrate numbers, such as counting blocks or counting with fingers.\nIntroduce simple math activities like sorting, counting, adding, and subtracting.\nUse games and activities that involve number recognition and patterns, such as a memory game or matching numbers with their corresponding quantities.\nUtilize storybooks and stories to introduce numbers, such as counting how many items the characters have.\nHave the child draw and color pictures with numbers to practice counting and number recognition.\nUse counting songs and rhymes to help the child learn to count.\nAsk simple questions about numbers when out and about, such as counting steps, counting items in store shelves, etc.\nThese are just a few ideas that help promote number sense in a grade one student. With some creativity and patience, the child will be counting like a pro in no time!\nHow to Spot Number Sense\nSpotting number sense in children can be done by observing how they think and approach math problems. For example, do they see relationships between numbers? Can they identify the different operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) and use them to solve problems? Do they think abstractly and use problem solving strategies?\nEncouraging children to think mathematically and engage in math talk can also be a great way to spot number sense. Asking questions about the process and thought behind each problem can be helpful in understanding how a child approaches math.\nHow to Track a Child’s Progress With Number Sense\nTracking a child’s progress with number sense can be a great way to ensure they are making progress and understanding the concepts they are learning. The following are some tips to help you do this effectively:\nRegularly review the child’s work. Take the time to check their work and help them understand any mistakes they may have made.\nAsk the child questions about their work. This will help you gauge their understanding and provide an opportunity to explain any concepts they may not have grasped.\nSet goals and rewards. Give the child specific goals to reach and reward them when they do. This will encourage them to keep trying and give them a sense of accomplishment.\nTrack progress. Use a chart or other tracking system to keep track of the child’s progress. It will give you an idea what topics they have mastered and which ones need more work.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "(On the sixth day Manjunath sports a self-designed T-Shirt)\nWhen Manjunath Kamath joined facebook almost a year back, he used to keep his daily status as ‘Ha’ (an expression to symbolize his laughter). The next day it would be ‘Ha Ha’ and it went on like that. People started responding to it. Many joined the laughter and many took it as an offence. Manjunath kept on laughing. It was almost like art critic Abhijit Tamhane’s ‘Google Vipaasana’ (his gmail status for over a year as he decided not to chat with anyone).\nHumor, a group of German sociologists studying on the subject has observed, is a most violent weapon, which is used against the social ills. By saying this, they reversed the generic view on humor and laughter. Humor and laughter is no longer the protective shield of the weak. On the contrary, it functions as a camouflage of a guerrilla fighter, who could consciously single out issues and attack it with his acerbic wit and laughter. One who smiles is the most powerful. One who shows a countenance that reflects severe constipation in brain and intestines, thinking that such a face would project their intellectual depth in fact declare it for the world that they are cowards and weaklings.\nLaughter is a way to exercise power over people but with good intentions. Manjunath Kamath still exercises his artistic power to laugh, laugh at and laughed at. It is almost like the canned laughter heard in the television shows. Zizek cites that the canned laughter is a method television has invented to create a reflexive society. A society that needs to be taught even the basic human emotions is a reflexive society, according to Zizek and he says that the canned laughter teaches the audience when to laugh, where to laugh and how to laugh; thereby creating a different sort of system of appreciation and power play.\nManjunath’s works are like the canned laughter, especially reserved for all those who are suffering from intellectual constipation (and indigestion too). Hence, when he comes to Gallery Espace on the sixth day, he can do nothing but laugh at what he has done. He looks around and smiles to himself. From a laughing personality, he has turned into a smiling personality; it is like changing your old bayonet gun and picking up an ultra modern sniper.\nManjunath starts with a wall in the ground floor. He creates a dark chamber where an upturned human head functions as a chandelier. And folding side of the wall, through an illusionary hole, a single bulb comes out. Why the bulb again, the artist asks to himself.\n(The Dark Chamber)\nFrom the Black Chamber, Manjunath moves on to a niche sort of space in the same floor where he creates a durbar with a hooded and packed king conspire with his similarly packed and hooded courtiers. This mock epic theatre/theatrical presentation speaks volumes about the artist’s innate resistance to power structures and his ability to stand up and laugh at these mock heroes; these scarecrows. But scarecrows could be dangerous, as the crows sitting on the trees outside Gallery Espace. They come and peck at your head. Power always pecks at the wrong part of your system.\n(The Durbar begins)\nThe Durbar of Veiled Power establishes an uncanny connection with an adjacent image of a heap of human feet; the plebian on the move. Manjunath, I am sure, sub-consciously reverses the first shot of Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Modern Times’- a herd of bowler hats thronging in the\nBehind the Elephant of Espace and the Hangman there appears a landscape. From behind the hills, faces come out and peer at you. When a layer of black paint is applied on the wall, the whole scene turns into something eerie.\n(The new landscape)\nManjunath moves on to the ceiling where he makes squiggling lines to create a pattern. It seems that he can go on endlessly with these lines as he enjoys doing it forgetting even the strangest body posture that he needs to adopt to draw these lines.\nManjunath moves on to the ‘Carnival of Hidden Terrors’. It has transformed so much since the first day. A group of Jamia Millila students and a few of them from Delhi College of Art, watch the artist adding new images of hooded men and their connections with the already existing ones.\n(Manjunath adding new images to the Carnival of hidden terror)\nThe project must be cathartic to Manjunath. He goes back to the image of plumbing. Next to the wall where he had drawn the ‘Rain’ on the first day, he draws a plumbing system with pipes that turns soft at the metal straps, giving away the impression that they are made of clothes.\nArtist Somu Desai comes from Vapi to be with Manjunath. And for the young viewers, today is a day of frolicking.\n(Somu Desai at the dark chamber)\n(Jamia students making maximum out of it)\nFriends and art lovers come in. Artist Megha Joshi has been here since morning. Artists Sreejata Roy and Koushal Sonkaria also pay a visit. Sabih Ahmed, young art historian and the Assistant Archivist of India Region for Asia Art Archives spends time with the images and us.\n(Artist Sreejata Roy)\n(JohnyML and artist Kaushal Sonkaria)\n(Young Art Historian and Archivist Sabih Ahmed, Somu Desai and JohnyML)\n(Espace director Renu Modi with friends)\nManjunath, Somu and myself sit on the gallery floor and chat on the other wall projects. ‘All for one and one for all,’ comments Somu Desai.\n(View and We)\nIt was a great Tuesday and in\nall the sisters were going to meet their brothers to tie Rakhi (a thread that is tied to the hands of brothers by sisters to re-affirm their love and faith for each other). Brothers-in-law were taking decorated wives to their brothers. And the city was choked with brothers and sisters. And in the never ending traffic jams, most of them were uttering expletives which had references to brother, sister, mother and so on. Delhi", "label": "No"}
{"text": "“What do you call an alligator in a vest? An investigator.” Did that pun make you laugh? If so, congratulations – you just strengthened your immune system, lowered your stress level, and got in a little bit of exercise. A simple laugh can cause the above health benefits, as well as many others, to happen within your body. We have all heard the quote “laughter is the best medicine,” but do you know why?\nLaughter has been known to be a positive healing force. It has physical, mental, and social advantages. When looking at your physical health, research shows a good laugh helps boost your T-cells. These cells are specialized immune system cells which, when activated, help your body fight off sickness. In addition, laughing releases endorphins, your body’s natural painkillers. When they are released, chronic pain can be relieved. Another benefit is lower blood pressure and stress hormone levels. Lowering a person’s blood pressure helps reduce their risk of stroke and heart attacks. Stress and anxiety levels can also be decreased, which triggers the T-cells to increase your body’s immune resistance. Lastly, humor can help a person add exercise into her day. When you are laughing, your stomach muscles expand and contract, providing effects similar to doing ab workouts. Along with your abs, laughing gets your heart pumping and can burn as many calories as walking at a slow to moderate pace. Can’t complete a physical activity due to injury, illness, or another health problem? Start laughing to get your body moving.\nHumor has many mental health benefits. When a person’s stress and anxiety levels are decreased, a sense of well-being and joy can occur. Laughing is known to help create a positive and optimistic outlook. It helps a person shift her attitude and perspective during a disappointing and difficult time. Psychological research states humor allows people to see things more realistically and stop them from feeling overwhelmed. Another benefit is when you are laughing, you can’t feel any other emotions. You can’t be angry or sad when you have a smile on your face. Instead, your energy is increased, giving you a sense of hope and strength to face life’s challenges. A simple smile or small chuckle can go a long way, no matter how you are feeling.\nLastly, relationships are strengthened, and your social health can improve through laughter. There is a reason why people say laughter is contagious because when one person starts laughing, it is easy to join in. It helps people connect and share a moment of humor and happiness. Humor can be used as a way to communicate and produce positive feelings among people. When a positive bond is created, people will be more spontaneous, express their emotions more, and there are fewer disappointments and disagreements.\nAll people learn how to laugh as babies. However, as you grow up, it can be harder to find things that humor you. Life’s challenges could make it hard or you might not feel like laughing because of one thing or another. Sometimes you have to make an effort to laugh during the tough times. Easier said than done, right? Try bringing humor into your day by completing small tasks, such as renting a funny movie, reading a funny book, or watching a funny television show. Every Sunday, your newspaper has a section dedicated to making you laugh, so why not check it out? Also, take a walk down memory lane and remember the hilarious moments of when things didn’t go right. Keep up to date on good jokes and stories, or play with a pet or children. Finding laughter in your everyday life can be trying, but take the time to do fun activities with your family and friends. Be silly and goof around. Once you start laughing, you’ll recognize the many benefits. After all, Charlie Chaplin once said, “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "TORONTO – As Canadian kids prepare to head back to school, there’s a growing movement gaining traction across the country that involves students learning their lessons at home and doing their homework at school.\nIt’s called the “flipped classroom” – students watch an online video of a lesson as homework, and then work on problems during class time.\nThe method is becoming more prominent as technology in schools allows for videos to be accessed easily, either on custom-made sites, on YouTube or downloaded to a device.\nA high school in Newmarket, Ont. – Sir William Mulock Secondary School – is making the leap. Colloquially, they call it a “Bring-Your-Own-Device” school where every student has to have a laptop or tablet to be able to use the technology.\nThat technology has allowed teachers to flip their classrooms.\nDonna Green, a math teacher at the school, flipped her Grade 10 academic math class in the second semester. She uses technology that captures video of her computer screen along with her voice as she progresses through a lesson.\nThe videos are usually shorter than in-class lectures, she says, because there are no disruptions.\n“What I like about it is I am spending more time with the students than up at the board,” Green says.\n“What I don’t like is when they are watching the video (at home) and they have an immediate question, there is no one to ask.”\nGreen tries to mitigate that problem by getting the students to write their questions down, and she goes over those questions first thing in class the next day.\nDespite some of the drawbacks – most of the criticism has centred on the fact that low-income students may not have access to the technology required – Green and other teachers argue that flipped classrooms are better for the students.\nThere’s some evidence to back up their opinion. A high school in Michigan, one of the worst academic performers in the state, flipped every classroom in 2011, and saw failure rates decline significantly while graduation rates soared.\nGreen and her colleague, Amanda Belanger, surveyed their students in Newmarket through an online questionnaire about the new style. Two-thirds said they preferred it to the traditional “chalk-and-talk” method.\nThe results, Green says, show students like the ability to watch the videos at their own pace – they can pause, rewind and review them if they’re puzzled.\nThen they apply what they’ve learned from the video lessons to problems that they work through in class.\n“When we assigned homework before, the deeper problems were the stuff they weren’t finishing at home because they didn’t know how to do it,” she says. “Now they’re finishing that at school, and we can help because we’re around.”\nMath and science are natural fits for the method, but Green’s colleague, Derrick Schellenberg, uses it in his English class sometimes too.\nHe employed it, for example, when teaching the 12 stages of the so-called quest pattern in mythology.\n“They would watch the video ahead of time and then we would deconstruct the idea in class; then we would apply it to a film or short story or a book or a play,” he says.\nAn important facet to the flipped classroom, both Green and Schellenberg say, is asking questions at the end of class to ensure all the students understand the lessons and the subsequent in-class homework. The teachers then immediately compile and tabulate the responses electronically.\n“What’s great is I’ve immediately got a spreadsheet with 30 students, and I can go through them quickly and I can find the students who didn’t get the question rather than wait for a test to find out who’s struggling,” Schellenberg says.\nDonna Feledichuk, a University of Alberta professor who researches teaching methods, recently turned her attention to an economics class at the school that taught traditionally in one semester, then used the flipped method in the second semester – with the same content and the same instructor.\nFeledichuk was trying to understand why international students in the class were lagging significantly behind their Canadian counterparts. In the flipped classroom, there was an overall increase of 11.4 per cent in the final grade compared to the traditional class.\nAs a side benefit, she notes, attendance increased to nearly 90 per cent from 65 per cent.\nShe says students can pick up the theory much easier via the flipped classroom.\n“We get these big gaps in ability because some kids get it right away, but most students need more than one or two examples to understand a subject – many need more than seven,” she says.\n“You don’t do that many in a traditional classroom, but you do in a flipped classroom. There seems to be a real benefit to students teaching this way.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "T IS FREQUENTLY argued that the Council of Trent, as part of the Counter-Reformation, sought to universalize Roman liturgical practices. In the case of the Missale Romanum, this seems clearly to be the case, as the missal of Pius V was formulated to take the place of any missal not in use for two-hundred years or more. Whether this universalizing tendency is true, also, of the marriage rite is less clear.\nMatrimony has always been celebrated with greater leeway for adaptation than other Sacraments, largely on account of its pre-Christian history as a purely domestic and civil affair. For certain, Trent decreed that marriage is a Sacrament and that it must be celebrated in church, in the presence of a priest. But Trent also left room for local adaptation (“earnestly” 1 so).\nThe marriage formula contained in the Missale Romanum of 1570 is so bare that the austerity, itself, almost implies that it was meant to be the bare minimum to which local customs would be added. Notably, the Rituale Romanum was not published until 1614, nearly half a century after the Missale Romanum of the same council had been promulgated. During those intervening years, all that was provided was a Mass formulary in the 1570 missal. Even after the publication of the Rituale, “one must doubt that it was ever intended to be used as it stood.” 2 Evidence shows, in fact, that local customs continued to be used in the period before the Rituale was published and even afterward, up until the late nineteenth century. 3 In the case of the marriage rites, therefore, it seems that the major force in the standardization of the liturgy was not so much the Council of Trent as it was the influence of later Ultramontanism.\nThe praenotanda of the 1969 marriage ritual that emerged from the reforms of the Second Vatican Council is unlike any of the rituals that preceded it, and there are two developments that are particularly interesting. First, the 1969 ritual stresses the opportunity for making adaptations to the rite even more strongly than had Tametsi, Trent’s decree on matrimonial law. Whereas Tametsi gave vehement encouragement to retain local customs, the Vatican II ritual takes it a step further, making allowance for customs to be added, altered, or even omitted from the rite.\nThe 1969 ritual provides for the addition of material that would supplement the formularies of the questioning and the consent (praenotanda, article 13), as well as the option of crowning or veiling the bride (15). It further permits the inclusion of customs from cultures in missionary lands, saying that “whatever is good and is not indissolubly bound up with superstition and error” should be “sympathetically considered” (16). In terms of alteration, the 1969 ritual permits the adaptation of the questions before the consent and even the vows, themselves (13). Additionally permitted is the rearrangement of various parts of the marriage liturgy (14). As regards the possibility of omissions, the ritual grants permission to eliminate the joining of hands or the blessing and exchange of rings, if they are not in conformity with the practice of the people (15). Perhaps most dramatically, it affords to conferences of bishops the prerogative of preparing an entirely new rite of marriage, insisting only on the exchange of consent before the priest and the giving of the nuptial blessing as necessary conditions (17).\nThese various allowances show a clear stress on the possibilities of adaptation. One of these allowances, however, is unlike the others, namely the permission to incorporate the crowning or veiling of the bride into the ceremony (15). What is unique about this permission is that the crowning constitutes in another rite the form of the Sacrament. The bridal veiling has a long history in the Western rites, but the crowning in most of the Eastern tradition is understood to constitute the Sacrament.\nThe second significant development of the marriage rite promulgated following the Second Vatican Council is the special consideration it gives toward non-Catholics and non-practicing Catholics. To begin with, different forms of the ritual are provided for cases wherein one of the parties is a non-Catholic Christian or even unbaptized. Still more, the praenotanda give pastoral advice for occasions when non-Catholics and non-practicing Catholics might be among the congregation. The introduction advises priests in this way:\nShow special consideration for those who take part in liturgical celebrations or hear the Gospel only on the occasion of a wedding, either because they are not Catholics or because they are Catholics who rarely if ever take part in the Eucharist or who apparently have lost their faith. Priests after all are ministers of Christ’s Gospel to everyone (9).\nThese instructions are an open admission of the post-Christendom situation of the Western Church. This admonishment to the priest also shows evidence of a ritual that has become self-aware of its historical development. Originally the purview of families in secular celebrations, the marriage rites were gradually subsumed into the sacramental authority of the Church. It is an unsurprising result, therefore, that weddings later grew to be occasions on which non-practicing Catholics and non-believers would frequently be present in church. In this pastoral encouragement of the 1969 ritual, we find an acknowledgment of new realities in the modern age.\nNOTES FROM THIS ARTICLE:\n1 Vehementer, as it appears in Trent, session 24, chapter 1.\n2 Mark Searle & Kenneth Stevenson, Documents of the Marriage Liturgy (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992), 184.\n3 Kenneth Stevenson, To Join Together: The Rite of Marriage (New York: Pueblo Publishing, 1987), 100.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "‘ENFANTS LUMINOUS’: 21ST CENTURY CHILDREN\nExcerpt: narrative for developing the label of quality for children-focused museums\nThe voices calling out about the unsustainability of human civilization have grown much stronger in last years, children among them calling the loudest. They cannot be ignored any more.\nAlberto Villoldo, a psychologist and anthropologist, trained in the medical practices of the Inkas, joins in the general tenor of voices by describing the early 21st century as a time of global challenge: recent humankind, is not able to use its talents and power to ward off the massive damages of Earth’s eco-systems, which is becoming a serious threat to humankind as a whole.\nVilloldo uses a very metaphorical language, referencing mythology and the lyrical invocation of the muses, rather than the formal and verbatim tone of most of the modern scientists. This unusual choice of style also marks the core of his analysis: Humankind is currently trapped in a predatory and destructive dogma which ‘passes the furtive costs onto future generations and expresses itself in our economic, political, social, and educational systems.’\nFor him, the current era marks an era of change, holding the potential for next generations to create a new, sustainable self-concept. Villoldo provides a figurative illustration of qualities needed to reach this positive shift, the Homo Luminous. The children born today, are already part of this ‘enlightened generation’ whose different mindset might allow them to make the needed changes happen. Villoldo describes his Homo Luminous as more intuitive, empathetic, and capable of networked thinking and accessing currently unused cognitive potential and as such will be able to find new ways for life.\nToday`s children, who already embody these skills, are the natural leaders of this change in his narrative. Therefore, he is calling adults for a shift of perspective, opening up our eyes for talents and views of children growing up today, talents we do not necessarily possess ourselves, and ideas we are not able to imagine.\nA Letter to 21st Century Children\nAnother “prophet” of these days, Yuval Noah Harari, also talks about the transition of Homo Sapiens into a new life form. The historian mapping “the history of the human future” who sells millions of books worldwide, describes his vision of a new humanity as a Homo Deus: a human being, who uses powers previously only attributed to God(s).\nIn one of Yuval Noah Harari’s books there is a letter he wrote to children about what they can expect from the future and how they shall get ready for this:\n‘The best advice I could give a fifteen-year-old stuck in an outdated school somewhere in Mexico, India or Alabama is: don’t rely on the adults too much. Most of them mean well, but they just don’t understand the world. In the past, it was a relatively safe bet to follow the adults, because they knew the world quite well, and the world changed slowly. But the twenty-first century is different. Due to the growing pace of change you can never be certain whether what the adults are telling you is timeless wisdom or outdated bias.\n[…] Technology isn’t bad. If you know what you want in life, technology can help you get it. But if you don’t know what you want in life, it will be all too easy for technology to shape your aims for you and take control of your life. […]\n[…] Should you rely on yourself, then? … The voice we hear in our heads was never trustworthy, because it always reflected state propaganda, ideological brainwashing and commercial advertisement, not to mention biochemical bugs. As biotechnology and machine learning improve, it will become easier to manipulate people’s deepest emotions and desires, and it will become more dangerous than ever to just follow your heart. […] To know what you are, and what you want from life … know thyself. For thousands of years philosophers and prophets have urged people to know themselves. But this advice was never more urgent than in the twenty-first century. The algorithms are watching you right now. They are watching where you go, what you buy, who you meet. Soon they will monitor all your steps, all your breaths, all your heartbeats. And once these algorithms know you better thank you can know yourself; they could control and manipulate you, and you won’t be able to do much about it. You will live in the matrix, or in The Truman Show.\n[…] and if, however, you want to retain some control of your personal existence and of the future of life, you have to run faster than the algorithms and the government and get to know yourself before they do. To run fast, don’t take too much luggage with you. Leave all your illusions behind. They are very heavy’.\nIn this radical letter, Harari outlines some major social threats and challenges of 21st century. Therefore it is not surprising that his advice for the upcoming generation shows strong parallels to instructions provided to heroes in old legends before setting on their heroic journey: he encourages young ones to know themselves, which can be interpreted as personal development and integrity, and he also warns them against “taking too much luggage”. He encourages them to understand oneself as an “operational system” and also to understand “the operational systems” of globalized enterprises.\nCan we imagine that museums can support children of the 21st century in packing light and efficiently for their heroic journey following distant signs of new humanity?\nThere are already well-articulated cue words and phrases marking the requirements for skills and competencies. The following is a non-exhaustive list of key-elements serving as indicators of what 21st century education should provide : active learning, critical thinking, making responsible decisions, problem solving, scanning multiple domains, self-reliance, effective communication, taking creative action, work with complex ideas, teamwork and cooperation, keeping pace with technology, media literacy, informational literacy, digital literacy, civic literacy, creativity, content creation and understanding, metacognitive skills, failing forward, personalised learning, life-long learning, articulating opinions, collaboration, innovative capacity, creative spirit, divergent thinking, enthusiastic experimenting, breaking new ground, envisioning strategies, ICT skills, social and cross-cultural skills, emotional resilience and empathy, the ability to self-govern, adaptability, making sense out of significant and complex global issues, entrepreneurial thinking, questioning conventional wisdom, imagining new scenarios, recognising and acting on opportunities, inventive thinking.\nIf the ‘curriculum development has not kept pace with current expectations about learning’, what are these expectations founded on, what do they reflect upon in society?\n“The world of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which needed armies of men and women in factories, demonstrations, and battlefields, is dying inevitably”, wrote Erich Fromm, psychologist and philosopher already in the 1950s.\nIt is becoming unjustifiable to raise children as obedient system upholder, as our parents and teachers did. By realistic assumptions, in 10 years up to 40% of jobs will cease to exist. These people’s skills will no longer be needed.\nThese realistic assumptions mean serious threats for those ‘who inadvertently shift the center of their lives to forces over which they feel no power, and thus flee from freedom and personal responsibility. […]’that means to the vast majority of society educated to work in armies for factories, hospitals, offices and shopping malls. “[…] Man stopped looking for the ultimate purpose of life in himself and made himself an instrument serving the economic machine he made with his own hands. We are concerned about efficiency and success instead of our happiness and mental growth.”\nThis approach to humanity and education is both unsustainable and unsatisfying on multiple levels.\nThe crumbling of the growth-ideology is vividly expressed by the omnipresent urge to transform contemporary education. Education holds the potential to support this re-orientation of humankind, by encouraging the next generations to create new ways to respond to its ultimate needs.\nTo correct this ideological stray of last decades requires complete rethinking, reimagining the role of humans in the world, as possessors of unique powers fuelled by creativity and technology, which are capable of systematically transforming Earth like no other species.\nCultural institutions as a key player of 21st century education\nMuseums, arisen and nurtured by a compound of human existential coping mechanisms, have a much better starting position as platforms to prepare children to live and work in rigid systems of centralized power, than schools, with their operational policies developed in the 19th century.\nFurthermore, the key elements of innovative pedagogy can be very often associated with arts and culture: learning through direct experience, holistic experiencing, flow, freedom, strong emotional involvement, and storytelling. Cultural institutions are competent to combine these elements into one complex educational structure, appealing to all senses and providing an applied learning context.\nHence, museums have an unmatched advantage to play this crucial role for the education of „Enfants Luminous“, making it their duty to serve society by living up to their potential as 21st century learning hubs.\n Yuval Noah Harari: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Jonatan Cape, London, 2018  The list isn’t exhaustive and doesn’t prioritize and structerize the skills and comptentencies.  Erich Fromm: Psychoanalyses and Religion, Yale University Press, 1959  Erich Fromm: Psychoanalyses and Religion, Yale University Press, 1959  Erich Fromm: Psychoanalyses and Religion, Yale University Press, 1959\n-Tereza Dobiasova, January 2020\n21st CENTURY CHILDREN PROJECT\nThe over-all objective of this project, which is generously supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, is to showcase and to tackle the potential of the unique quality and character of children-oriented museums for benefiting society as future-oriented, 21st Century learning spots.\nActions of the project:\n- Unite stake holders of the field to create a global mission & quality standards\n- Create a global brand and marketing tools for the sector\n- Map the sector and provide capacity building tools and content for professional development", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Ball Python Genetics\nSome aspects of an animal are determined by their environment, their experiences, their diet, or even accidents (perhaps during development) but many are determined by their genes.\nWith few exceptions, genes are found in pairs, with one member of each pair inherited from mom and the other from dad. There are a great number of different genes doing a great number of different things. Every now and then a mutation happens that changes what one of those genes does in such a way as to make a different (“mutant”) looking animal. With the huge number of ball pythons exported from their native Africa each year (as many as 150, 000 some years) we have had the opportunity to discover quite a variety of mutant genes. We then breed these odd looking animals in captivity to confirm if the odd appearance is genetically reproducible and if so how it works and how it might combine with other mutant genes.\nA few basic terms are helpful to describe the possible inheritance of an unusual ball python appearance:\nPhenotype: The appearance type of an animal. Ball python phenotypes include normal/wild type (which can vary a lot), albino, pastel, super pastel, spider, and many many more. The phenotype doesn’t always tell you about an animal’s genes and in some cases some recognized phenotypes might not even have a genetic cause. For example, the recognizable classic jungle appearance might be caused by incubation environment — or it might be complex genetics we just haven’t figured out yet.\nGenotype: The gene type of an animal with respect to one or more known genes. Remember that genes come in pairs (except for gender genes of the mismatched sex – females in snakes). One copy of each gene comes from each parent. We really only know ball python genes with respect to the mutations we have identified so far. As far as we know, there are only two versions of the gene at the location we refer to as the “albino locus” – albino mutant and normal for the albino gene (without the albino mutation). Depending on which version of this gene a baby ball python gets from each of it’s parents it has three possible genotypes for the albino locus – homozygous normal (two normal for albino copies), heterozygous albino (one normal and one albino mutant copy of the gene), or homozygous mutant (an albino mutant copy of the gene from each parent).\nThe genotype can be expanded to also include other gene locations, for example an axanthic gene. A double het for snowball python is both heterozygous for the albino gene (one albino and one normal for albino gene at the albino locus) and heterozygous for axanthic (one axanthic and one normal for axanthic gene at the separate axanthic locus).\nMutation Type: The third important concept for understanding ball python mutations is classifying the interaction between genotype (the genes) and the phenotype (the appearance). There are three basic categories of mutation types.\nWith recessive mutations (albino for example) just one normal copy of the gene is enough to compensate for one mutant copy of the gene. In a heterozygous albino the one normal for albino gene inherited from one of the parents covers the one albino copy of the gene from the other parent and makes the “het” albino look normal.\nYou might also like\nAnimals Snakes Python Reptiles Ball HTC One M7 Flip Cover Case with Card Holder Customized Made to Order Support Ready Premium Deluxe Pu Leather 5 11/16 inch (145mm) x 2 15/16 inch (75mm) x 9/16 inch (14mm) MSD HTC One Professional Cases Accessories Open Camera Headphone Port Graphic Covers Designed 1 Model Folio Sleeve HD Template Designed Wallpaper Photo Jacket Wifi Luxury Protector Wireless Cellphone Cell Phone\nWireless (MS Depot)\nAnimals Snakes Python Reptiles Ball 16G USB Flash Drive 2.0 Memory Stick MSD USB Credit Card Size Customized Support Services Ready Windows Mac Storage External\nCE (MS Depot)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Google Mail or Gmail is commonly used to create social media accounts or other applications.\nHow to create an account at this time is also quite easy, only requires personal data in the form of name to place of birth date.\nDo not forget also for the password that is only known by one person who created the account so that access is safe.\nHowever, as technology becomes more sophisticated, accounts are easy to hack, so we need to create secure passwords .\nIf you have already created a password which is a personal name and number, you need to change it.\nThere is a way to change gmail password which can be done directly on smartphones and desktops.\nChange Gmail Password on Smartphone\nThis method can be done in the Google Discover and Gmail applications directly.\nIf on Gmail , you can immediately click settings and choose your Gmail account or the one you want to change the password for .\nAfter that, select the Manage Google Account menu and you will be redirected to the home menu.\nSwipe to view the Security menu and scroll down to the Password menu under Signing in to Google.\nYou need to verify yourself first before changing the password .\nHow to verify it is only by logging in with the old password .\nAfter the new verification, you can change the Gmail password .\nChange Gmail Password on Desktop\nChanging the password on the desktop is more or less the same as on a smartphone.\nOpen the Gmail website on your laptop or computer browser and click on the Gmail account profile located in the top right corner.\nJust click the circle icon with your first letter in capital letters and click Manage Google Account.\nAnd do it the same way on a smartphone.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Introducing DLS List of Online Courses\nFeatured Dictionary - Gojri\nGojri is one of the ancient Indian languages belonging to the central group of Indo-Aryan languages. It was a well-developed and official language in the 'Golden period of Indian History' i.e., 600-1400 A.D., spoken in Northwest India. Check it out here.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Believed to had arrived to the Balearic Islands in the 1200's, the Majorcan cattle dog Ca de Bou looked very different before the 1700's, when the British introduced their bulldogs and mastiffs to the region. Originally, two types of the Ca de Bou existed, these being the bully and the shepherd varieties, but over the years the bully type became the favored one. Numerous crosses were made intended to create a superior bull-baiting and fighting dog, resulting in a somewhat standardized mastiff-type Ca de Bou which survived until the 1900's, when the baiting sports started to lose their appeal and the breed became a farm dog and a property guardian.\nBy the time the breed was recognized in the 1960's, there was only a handful of pure dogs to be found in Mallorca. A revival program was started in the 1970's, successfully increasing the number of these beautiful Majorca Bulldogs through a series of crosses between the pure and non-pure specimens, as well as controlled inbreeding. The English Mastiff, Bullmastiff and even Rottweiler and American Bulldog are rumored to had been employed in some lines, but these claims haven't been confirmed. The only outside breed that was \"officially\" used in the re-creation is the Ca de Bestiar, seeing how these two breeds have some common ancestry. However, since the bully type is the preferred one, not a lot of modern Ca de Bou examples reflect the Ca de Bestiar heritage.\nToday, the Ca de Bou is becoming an increasingly popular breed, due to its friendly and playful personality. A loyal and lovely family dog, this is an immensely powerful breed, full of courage and drive, making it an excellent watchdog. The traces of its fighting past can still be found in its aggressiveness towards dogs, which is why proper socialization from an early age is crucial. Large-headed, wide-chested and strongly-boned, the Ca de Bou is a very handsome and impressive Molosser. While the cropping of ears and docking of tails was sometimes done in the past, modern dogs are left in their natural state.\nThe short coat is hard and smooth, preferably yellow, lion-golden or tan in color, but fawn, brown, brindle and black dogs aren't uncommon. Black mask is preferred, although not obligatory. Even though black-n-tan and piebald dogs exist, they aren't valued by the breed purists, but small white markings are acceptable. The average height is around 23 inches.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Chewing is a natural behavior for dogs. They chew to explore. New textures and smells are intriguing and even educational to them. Without your guidance, though, your pet won’t realize the difference between your best handbag and soggy old rawhide. Fortunately, you can break chewing in a few simple steps.\nItems you will need\n- Chew toy selection\n- Food treats\nRemove the temptation. Chewing is easier to prevent than to cure, so make sure anything you don’t want chewed is out of reach. This reduces your chances of becoming upset with the dog during the housebreaking stage. It also makes it easier for him to succeed.\nPut the dog on a leash when he's out of his basket, crate or room, especially when housebreaking a pup. Puppies are always learning, so it’s useful to have the safety of physical restraint until they know the rules. If the pup heads toward a table leg, TV remote or cushion, gently restrain him and give the command \"no.\"\nRemove the leash and put the dog back in his basket, crate or room. Put some chew toys in with the dog. When in isolation, he will have only the option of appropriate chewing. By familiarizing your dog with these toys, you increase his chances of success when training him to make the right choice.\nEncourage appropriate chewing. Dogs need to chew, especially when teething, so it’s pointless hoping to prevent all chewing. Give the dog a selection of chew toys and, as soon as he expresses an interest in one of them, issue verbal encouragement, such as “good boy!” This creates a positive association with chewing appropriate items. Use toys that are easily distinguished from inappropriate items. It’s tempting to give him an old shoe, but this may confuse the dog into thinking any shoe is OK to chew on.\nReintroduce the temptation. This is the tricky part, so be on hand to supervise. Put down an “illegal” object -- such as a bag, shoe or any item your dog has previously chewed -- near a chew toy. If the dog goes straight for the chew toy, issue praise to further reinforce the positive association with appropriate chewing. If he goes for the illegal item, distract him by calling his name.\nDistract the dog to correct relapses. Some items, such as table legs and cupboard doors can’t be removed from the dog’s environment; as your dog continues to learn, he may make mistakes. Use this trick during training and to prevent future indiscretions. If the dog is chewing or even looks like he might chew inappropriately, call his name in a positive and friendly manner. There is no need to yell; just divert his attention to you.\nReward the dog as soon as he turns his focus to you. As his owner, you’ll know what motivates him. Some dogs love a food treat, while others can’t get enough of that mucky old tennis ball.\n- Don't give your dog permanent access to chew toys. This may cause him to get used to chewing all the time, meaning he may turn to inappropriate objects after finishing a chew toy.\n- Dog with Treat image by T^i^ from Fotolia.com", "label": "No"}
{"text": "According to a new study by Rutgers University, “Learning new cognitive skills can help reduce overwhelming negative thoughts”. So said Dr Caroline Leaf, communication pathologist and self-titled cognitive neuroscientist. She also advised that “Intentionally bringing those rogue thoughts under control is essential to mind health! And learn something new every day – develop your mind!”\nSo … negative thoughts are what, like an evil spy organisation, running around causing wanton destruction, overwhelming your capacity to function?\nIf that’s the case, then new cognitive skills must be like Tom Cruise, running, jumping, shooting and kicking their way through the negative thoughts, saving the world and getting the girl.\nIt’s a popular concept. As I discussed in my previous post, the power of positive thinking is culturally sanctioned Western folk psychology. We implicitly accept the idea that we have to harness positive thoughts and stop negative thoughts if we’re to overcome life’s obstacles.\nHowever, the only rogue notions here are Dr Leaf’s.\nDr Leaf’s post sounds authoritative and sciency, but is nothing else. It’s vague, and with a bit of deeper palpation, it’s actually wrong.\nDr Leaf has gone back to her bad habit of obfuscating her references, maybe because she’s getting lost in her own hubris, or more likely, it’s much easier for her audience to see that she’s just cut-and-pasted the opening by-line of a press release again if she actually disclosed her source.\nIn fact, the article is about a study from Rutgers which studied two behavioural interventions (not cognitive ones), a form of mindfulness meditation and aerobic exercise. The original publication is in the journal Translational Psychiatry , if you want to check it out for yourself. This article isn’t about learning cognitive skills at all. Exercise and mindfulness meditation are tried and true behavioural methods of improving mood disorders like depression, which the authors combined to assess the benefit or otherwise. Neither intervention involved challenging or fighting thoughts, or suppressing ‘negative’ thoughts, or “intentionally bringing those rogue thoughts under control”.\nIndeed, the mindfulness meditation used involves “the practice of attending to the present moment and allowing thoughts and emotions to pass without judgment.”  Mindfulness doesn’t try to control anything. Rather than supporting Dr Leaf’s declaration that intentionally bringing thoughts under control is essential to mind health, this study contradicts it.\nCutting and pasting doesn’t make you an expert. It’s easy to take a sciency-sounding tag line and put it in a pretty little graphic. Everyone does it. 90% of Instagram and Facebook posts these days are faux-authoritative pseudo-science memes that aren’t worth the bytes they’re made of.\nJunk science is like junk food. If that’s all you consume, then you eventually become an intellectual blob of lard, stuffed full of mistruths and logical fallacies, and incapable of understanding scientific truth for yourself. Dr Leaf’s audience deserves better than junk science and it’s about time that Dr Leaf stopped pretending to be an expert, and started acting like one.\n Alderman BL, Olson RL, Brush CJ, Shors TJ. MAP training: combining meditation and aerobic exercise reduces depression and rumination while enhancing synchronized brain activity. Transl Psychiatry 2016;6:e726.\nI’d say you sure seem to be so against Dr. Caroline Leaf. I’ve no clue who you are or what title you have, but you should stop putting so much energy into criticizing what she says. Not everyone agrees with what people say. For those I don’t agree with, I don’t bother “following” them on social media then write “posts” about them. You should consider how it makes you look. I don’t agree with what you say here and there, but am I gonna go write posts about it? No. Why? because I’d rather not waste my time on you but spend it by doing something else.\nIf you don’t agree with her, then don’t mind her. How about posting something worthwhile reading? hmm?\nDear Dr Cee,\nI appreciate your candid views, though I couldn’t help but notice how your comment is just dripping with irony. If you think criticising me for being critical is a valid criticism, then be my guest.\nI understand some people will find my ongoing critique of Dr Leaf distasteful, and they will judge me accordingly, but there are many others that are very appreciative and supportive.\nBut honestly, public perception as a guide or motivation is fundamentally flawed. The tide of public opinion changes, well, like the tide. I write to provide a counter argument to Dr Leaf’s unscientific and unscriptural teaching, and to hold her to some level of accountability. I think you’d see that if you reviewed the entire body of my work rather than making a snap judgement based on one post.\nFor the record, I have posted a number of articles completely unrelated to Dr Leaf. Since your approach to my work is closed-minded and judgmental, I doubt you would find them ‘worth reading’, but you’re more than welcome to peruse them if you wish.\nAll the best to you.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What is Experiential Learning?\nExperiential Learning Programs allow students a chance to apply knowledge and information acquired from their academic program and is valuable for student development and career marketability. This is a way for students to “try out” a career before making a full-time commitment.\nTypes of Experiential Learning include:\nCommunity Work Study\nCooperative Education (CoOp)\nAdditional benefits are the ability to learn interpersonal skills such as:\nStudents who participate in experiential learning:\nCan earn while they learn\nAre less apt to drop out of school\nAre more likely to be hired upon graduation\nGenerally have a higher starting salary\nGenerally advance more quickly in their careers", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Ocean acidification refers to decrease of the pH of the oceans, due to the increased intake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Due to the release of carbon dioxide by human activity, the increased acidity of the oceans could cause some marine life, such as coral and plankton, to lose their external calcium carbonate skeletons. The ocean surface pH is believed to have been reduced from 8.25 to about 8.14 between 1751 and 2004. Studies indicate the pH could drop by a further 0.14 to 0.35 units by 2100.\nCarbonate buffering system\nCarbon dioxide (CO2) combines with water (H2O) to form carbonic acid (H2CO3). Carbonic acid can then lose a hydrogen ion (H+) to form the negatively charged bicarbonate ion (HCO3–). The bicarbonate can lose its hydrogen ion as well, though it does so less readily than carbonic acid. When the bicarbonate ion loses its hydrogen ion, it forms the double-charged negative carbonate ion (CO32–), some of which combines with calcium ions to form calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Some of the calcium carbonate is precipitated and deposited on the seafloor, which can cycle back into the ocean by dissolving at depth.\nIn a process called buffering, chemical reactions involving carbonate changes the pH of the ocean. Buffering protects the ocean from getting too basic. If the pH of the ocean increases (becomes too basic), it causes H2CO3 to release H+ and the pH drops. If the pH of the ocean decreases (becomes too acidic), HCO3– combines with H+ to remove it, causing the pH to rise. Buffering maintains the pH of the ocean at an average of 8.1 with little variation over time.\nStudies indicate the slow process cannot offset the rapid acidification from carbon dioxide absorption.\n- Caldeira K. and Wickett M. J. (2003) Anthropogenic carbon and ocean pH . Nature 425 Page 365", "label": "No"}
{"text": "🦃 Smart Start Week 11\nWeek 11 was all things turkeys and Thanksgiving!\nOn Monday, we talked about how settlers crossed the ocean in search of a new home in a new land. We cut out our own pilgrims and gave them some familiar faces. While we cut and glued, we talked about how the pilgrims were helped by Native Americans who taught them about things to grow and animals to hunt. We asked, \"Would you like to eat turkey, deer or rabbit?\" They voted for pizza!\nWe practiced counting with the rhyme \"5 Fat Turkeys\"...\nwe spent lots of time reading...\nand we practiced writing our names!\nOn Wednesday, we noticed that our pumpkin friend Zigzag was looking a little...different. We started the day with some exploration. We noticed that Zigzag had gotten wrinkly, crinkly and squishy. We also observed some spots that were new colors and something fuzzy inside! We talked about how plants decompose and asked the students where they thought we should put Zigzag. They agreed that he should go to the woods so he can decompose and feed other plants and animals. We love these moments!\nDuring Circle Time, we learned about turkeys and their fascinating faces! We learned some new words like wattle, snood and caruncle!\nWe like to talk about what grows when. During Snack Time, Mrs. Debbie told us about pomegranates! Pomegranates only ripen in warmer climates. They are in season starting in October and are usually available fresh through December. We cut it open and everyone was amazed by the color and little \"jelly beans\" inside.\nIn Atelier, we started on a turkey mosaic, worked with beads and baked lots of yummy Thanksgiving treats at the play dough station.\nMore Wednesday fun...\nAs students arrived on Friday, we finished up our turkey mosaics with hand print turkeys. There were lots of giggles because having your hand painted tickles!\nWe also visited Mrs. Debbie's glasses shop, experimented with balance and played hopscotch!\nIt wouldn't be Thanksgiving week without making some turkeys! We could not be happier with the improvement in our students' scissor skills! We asked them to make small cuts to create feathers. They excelled that this very precise movement!\nAs we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, we want you to know that we are tremendously thankful for our Smart Start students and families! We hope your holiday is filled with family, friends, food and loads of love!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Question 12 Direct costs pertain to costs that: a\nare traceable to a cost object. b. are not traceable to a cost object. c. are commonly incurred. d. are variable costs.\nQuestion 13 Product costs are inventoried and treated as assets until: a. the next accounting period. b. related liabilities no longer exist. c. the period in which the products they relate to are sold. d. none of these.\nQuestion 14 An example of a cost that is likely to have a direct relationship with products being manufactured: a. sales force salaries. b. depreciation of production equipment. c. salaries of production supervisors. d. production labor costs.\nThe exception is: offer and acceptance\nQuestion 15 The contribution margin format income statement is organized by: a. responsibility centers. b. functional classifications. c. sales territories. d. cost behavior classifications. Question 16 Common costs pertain to costs that: a. are directly traceable to a cost object payday loans LA. b. are not directly traceable to a cost object. c. are commonly incurred. d. are direct costs.\nQuestion 17 The three components of product costs are: a. direct material, supervisor salaries, selling expenses. b. direct labor, manufacturing overhead, indirect material. c. direct material, direct labor, manufacturing overhead. d. manufacturing overhead, indirect material, indirect labor.\nA(n) __________ is a personal representative named by the court to perform as the executor would, in instances in which the deceased person has not left a will. judge administrator attorney agent\nThe law concerned with the unenforceable obligations that people have to one another is known as __________ law. country common constitutional moral\nA private wrong that causes injury to physical well-being, property, or reputation of another person is called a(n): tort. crime. execution. misunderstanding.\nThe law allows for a certain amount of “sales talk,” or puffing, that is not considered as: undue influence. duress. fraudulent. misrepresentation.\nAll of the following are the characteristics that become the bases of product liability claims against manufacturers and sellers, EXCEPT: product flaw\nThe document that lists the general powers of a corporation is called the: memorandum of hierarchy. memorandum of association. articles of entrepreneurship. articles of incorporation.\nThe Uniform Commercial Code provides that when a merchant sells goods, he or she warrants that the goods will comply with the following requirements, EXCEPT: to pass without objection in the trade under the contract description. being unfit for the ordinary purposes for which such goods are sold. conforming with the promises or statements of fact made on the container or label. be adequately contained, packaged, and labeled as the agreement may require.\nPatents, rights to drill for oil on someone’s land, and copyrights of creative works such as books are __________ possessions. special tangible inalienable intangible\nThe Securities Exchange Act of 1934 covers the trading of these same securities in the __________ market, defined as the place where one member of the public sells securities to another member of the public. primary secondary consumer labor\n1.As mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring have increased in importance, agency theory has become more important in assessing whether: a. a stock repurchase should be undertaken. b. shareholder goals are truly being achieved by managers in the long run. c. managers are actually agents or only employees of the firm. d. managers and owners are actually the same people with the same interests.\n2.Total asset turnover indicates the firm’s: a. liquidity. b. debt position. c. ability to use its assets to generate sales. d. profitability.\n3.In developing data for accounts receivable for the pro forma balance sheet, the analyst is most likely to turn to the: a. pro forma income statement. b. cash budget. c. prior balance sheet. > d. statement of retained earnings.\n- Lots of people statement feeling an array of one thing\n- Bagarre sans avoir i destinee Saint-Germer-de-Fly declaration sexemodel bondes profession\n- Sign Up Process. Could it be effortless Here?\n- To acquire a grad And additionally mortgage, correspond with a scholarships or grants user at the school or check out your own school’s site\n- An educated flat rental web sites and you will programs\n- Top 10 surs applications voit puissance Comme Realisez quelques confrontations i l’autres n’importe .\n- Payday loan within the Phenix Urban area, AL – How to get that loan (Step-by-Action Processes)\n- Your relationship with the fresh new getting class can often be defined from the contract you are finalizing\n- Narcissists Will never End Sleeping to you personally\n- An Astrologer Shows The three Zodiac Signs Extremely Drawn to Libra", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The front page of the Sept. 26 Daily Commercial stated, \"Experts: climate change could mean stronger hurricanes.\" However, if you read the complete article it also says, “It's difficult to pinpoint any effects of climate change as very direct contributors to the size and scope of those two storms and scientists have only about 30 years of high-quality data on hurricanes to try to make a judgement about those effects.” The headline does not reflect what the article really says.\nFact: The earth's population in 1900 was around 1.5 billion people, yet the worst hurricane to strike the U.S. was in that year in Galveston, Texas, killing approximately 12,000. The car was not mass produced until 1908 and could not contribute to global warming, but later storms are just as strong as the Galveston one. How does anyone blame global warming on increasing the strength of storms?\nHere's some history on later storms from The Weather Channel:\nThe 1928 Okeechobee storm killed about 3,000.\nThe 1935 Labor Day storm in the Key's killed nearly 700.\nThe 1938 storm in New England killed almost 600, just to name a few.\nMany want to include global warming as a possible cause of stronger hurricanes, but the data is not there. The earth's population is nearing 7.6 billion, and we still have strong storms. Less people are killed because of the current level of observation and warning systems, but they are just as powerful as the Galveston storm. As the article said, they don't have enough quality data to make a judgment.\nAs someone who tracked hurricanes from 1953-55 while in the Navy's hurricane research project, I'll withhold judgment until we have more data. Go to the Tavares Historical Museum and view how we did our research. It's open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, and see for yourself.\nAlvin F. Berry, Leesburg", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Following up on this post on the translation of Guru Nanak’s poem in the color of hope (Click here for translation), following is info from Wikipedia on the six orthodox systems:\nSeveral Indian intellectual traditions were codified during the medieval period into a standard list of six orthodox systems or ṣaḍdarśanas, all of which cite Vedic authority as their source.Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Mimāṃsā and Vedanta are classified as āstika schools:\nNyāyá, the school of logic\nVaiśeṣika, the atomist school\nSāṃkhya, the enumeration school\nYoga, the school of Patañjali (which assumes the metaphysics of Sāṃkhya)\nMimāṃsā, the tradition of Vedic exegesis\nVedanta or Uttara Mimāṃsā, the Upaniṣadic tradition.\nThese are often coupled into three groups for both historical and conceptual reasons: Nyāyá-Vaiśeṣika, Sāṃkhya-Yoga, and Mimāṃsā-Vedanta.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What is the purpose of a potato chip? What is its function? What defines a potato chip?\nFor the answer, we can turn to the wisdom of ancient Greek philosophers, and Aristotle in particular:\nHe argued that everything has a goal, which is its reason to exist. Many things and animals have something in common – but what defines them is what they have which is intrinsic and unique to themselves. For example: both birds and fish eat food, but a fish cannot fly and nor can a bird swim. Therefore, the function unique to a bird is to fly – so, a happy bird is one that can fly (so don't go putting birds in tiny cages\nSo, what about a potato chip? Well, it's clear, the purpose of a potato chip is to be a tasty snack.\nFirst, it has to be somewhat filling (but not too much, it's a snack, remember): as an Irishman, I will of course need my occasional does of potatoes, so potato chips do the job well\nWhat is the other function of a potato chip? It is to delight your five senses: touch, sight, sound, smell and taste:\n: a potato chip should be light, with a delicate dusting of salt and flavourful goodness that adheres slightly to the fingers, providing extra delight when you lick it off (or let your dog lick it off, **after** you've done eating)\n: a potato chip should gently recall the frying process, with crispy edges and an appetising colour.\n: an undervalued aspect of a potato chip is its crunchiness – as you eat, you ears should be filled with crunching. If there's no noise, then it's gone soft and gross...\n: as you open the packet, and bring a potato chip to your mouth, your taste buds should get an enticing foretaste of what is about to enter your mouth\nAnd, last but not at all least...\nYou can choose from many types of tastes, and each person has their preference\nthe taste of the potato chip is the ultimate reward to the Aristotelian seeking the good life. Applying reason to the case in hand, he (or she) will recognise the telos\n, the ultimate goal and justification of the potato chip as being in the taste. Is it a simple Salt and Pepper, or a complex and profound Curry Cha Cha\nWhatever it is, don't compromise on the quality of a potato chip!\nDon't every compromise on the quality of anything – because by always understanding the essence of things, and aiming for the highest goals, we are able to bring philosophy to our daily life, and walk with the ancients\n(This blog post was composed for a contest organised by Nuffnang and Mister Potato - check out the links for more information.)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This was a lightning talk presented at the ALPS December 2013 meeting. I didn’t actually have any slides for this talk, simply showing the two sites along with the backpack while talking.\nMorning everyone. I’m sure you’re wondering why I have a dinosaur companion. Remember elementary school when you had show and tell? Well, really, that’s what this presentation is about: telling you about something that I’ve been keeping an eye on for over a year now, and showing you the latest iteration of something I see a lot of application for in libraries and higher education.\nBy the way, this dinosaur was the Mozilla mascot. I’ve brought him with me today, because Mozilla instigated and organized the efforts behind this: the Web Literacy Standard.\nWhat is it?\nShall I simply read out what it says right here?\nThe Web Literacy Standard is a map of competencies and skills that Mozilla and our community of stakeholders believe are important to pay attention to when getting better at reading, writing and participating on the web.\nThe exploring competencies are particularly relevant to libraries, such as the “search” competency:\nLocating information, people and resources via the web.\nThe first point here says:\nUsing keywords, search operators, and keyboard shortcuts to make web searches more efficient.\nWhile this might refer to using search engines, such as Google, I would say this would easily apply to searching databases, a catalogue, or a discovery layer.\nHow can we use it?\nSo we have this standard. Where does this lead us? I think the most obvious one is for assessment.\nFor example, we have students that come into instructional workshops. What do we want students to learn? The standard can give us guidance specifically by looking at the competencies listed. Most likely we want to pick a couple from ‘Search’ and ‘Credibility’.\nWhile we might differ on exactly how we assess whether students have learned these skills, we can hopefully agree that these are the skills and competencies we’re trying to assess.\nI won’t belabour this point, because anyone familiar with instruction and assessment will hopefully be able to see how the standard applies in helping to create assessment tools, such as questionnaires, or rubrics.\nWhy this one?\nWhat is likely of more interest is why should we use this standard?\n- open, public,\n- community-led, and\nAt the Mozilla Festival this year, faculty members from various schools showed interest and began brainstorming about how they might use it in their courses. I say that it’s collaborative, because you can provide feedback at any time and contribute, meaning everyone can get involved.\nWhile based on many existing ideas, the web literacy standard is also unique in pulling together much of what you might find under information or digital literacy into a single standard focused on the web environment, which is where students do a vast majority of their research, as well as spend a lot of time in general.\nIf you weren’t using a literacy standard already, then I would encourage you to start here. If you already had something in place, then I encourage you to see how your existing instructional material might align with the web literacy standard.\nInto Open Badges\nMozilla didn’t stop there of course. In a separate, but related effort, there’s also the open badges system, where you can create and issue badges linked to any of the competencies.\nThe metadata of each badge includes:\n- badge name\n- criteria (link to)\n- evidence (link to)\n- date issued\n- competency from standard (link to)\n- tags (keywords)\nThe badge can then be used as proof of an acquired skill. A student can also collect badges from many places and then display them on a website or any other place online by managing their badges in their badges backpack.\nIn the near future, part of the plan is the ability to search for other people in a community who have earned a specific badge. For example, a student might search for other students who have acquired a badge related to advanced research skills to ask for help, building a community where students can seek out peers for help in specific areas.\nThe badges system will also allow pathways so that you can make badges that build on one other. They’re in the process of prototyping how the pathways might work, and if you’re interested, you can even join the conversation!\nI hope you’ve enjoyed this show and tell. Too often we work in silos, so I highly encourage you to get involved in the web literacy standard, open badges or both; or simply make use of them, because you’ll be joining a community that goes beyond just one library, one faculty, or one school; you’ll be joining the world.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Causes and Risk Factors for Multiple Myeloma\nThe underlying cause for multiple myeloma is unknown; however, research has shown that the disease begins as a change (mutation) in genetic material called DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) within plasma cells. This genetic material contains instructions that determine and control cell growth, division, and function.\nGenes that increase cell growth and division are called oncogenes and genes that reduce cell growth and division or result in cell death are called tumor suppressor genes. In some cases, abnormalities in genetic material \"switch on\" cancer-promoting oncogenes and \"switch off\" cancer-preventing tumor suppressor genes, increasing the risk for multiple myeloma and other types of cancer.\nMultiple myeloma cells also may contain abnormalities in DNA components called chromosomes. Each normal, healthy cell contains 46 chromosomes in 23 pairs. Translocation is a genetic error in which parts of two chromosomes are exchanged. When this error occurs near an oncogene, it can trigger abnormal cell growth and division and cause cancer.\nIn another chromosomal abnormality found in some myeloma cells, parts of chromosome 13 are missing. This genetic error increases the risk for multiple myeloma that is highly aggressive and difficult to treat. Patients with multiple myeloma also may have other bone marrow cell abnormalities that increase plasma cell growth and division.\nSeveral risk factors for multiple myeloma have been identified. Some of these factors cannot be changed or avoided (called non-modifiable risk factors) and others can be avoided in some cases (called modifiable factors risk factors). Recent studies indicate that a combination of risk factors probably contributes to the development of multiple myeloma.\nMultiple myeloma risk factors include the following:\n- African American race\n- Age (e.g., over the age of 65)\n- Exposure to radiation (e.g., from x-rays, handling radioactive materials, or living near or working in nuclear energy production facilities)\n- Family history of multiple myeloma (e.g., having a close relative, such as a sibling or parent, with the disease)\n- Male gender\n- Monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance (MGUS)\nCertain medical conditions and environmental or occupational exposures (e.g., to chemicals or viruses) may increase the risk for multiple myeloma, but the role of these factors is not completely understood. Some studies have shown that people with chronic infections (e.g., hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS) or autoimmune disorders (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis) are at higher risk for developing multiple myeloma. Environmental factors, including job-related exposure to metal, rubber, wood, paint, solvents, leather, fertilizers, pesticides, or petroleum products also may increase the multiple myeloma risk.\nMonoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance (MGUS) is a condition characterized by the presence of M proteins in the blood without other evidence of multiple myeloma. MGUS usually does not cause symptoms; however, people with the condition are at higher risk for developing multiple myeloma, leukemia, and other disorders (e.g., connective tissue disorders, chronic skin diseases, neurological disorders) over time. People who have MGUS undergo regular blood tests to monitor the condition.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Secret Autonomous Railroad Pilot Car Testing? Code Name: \"Google Pop Car\"For more than two decades, automobile manufacturers have offered radar systems that activate when a driver shifts the transmission into reverse gear. More recently, backup cameras made the leap from large recreational vehicles to many standard sized automobiles. Although an audible beep from a radar sensor is more effective at getting a driver’s attention, federal law now mandates that by 2018, all light vehicles sold in the U.S. shall include a backup camera.\nRecently, automobile manufacturers have developed and deployed “adaptive cruise control”, which will slow a vehicle if it approaches too quickly upon another vehicle. If you purchase a new vehicle today, you can add various crash prevention systems, including “lane departure control”, “collision avoidance braking”, “blind spot warnings”, \"adaptive headlights\" and more. If you add up all of these features and options, you are well on your way to owning a “self-driving car”, as Google likes to call their autonomous driving vehicle (AV).\nUntil the 1980s, cup holders were relatively unknown in American cars. Until then, few people ate, drank or made telephone calls while driving. With the advent of “cellular radio”, the “car phone” became popular. With the fast food revolution, so too came cup holders, in-vehicle dining and a host of other distractions. Cordless electric shavers brought personal grooming to the average commuter. Lighted makeup mirrors tempted other commuters to touch up their makeup while driving. When heavy traffic slowed vehicles to a crawl, it became common for drivers to read a book or newspaper during their commute.\nBy the early 2000s, drivers had even more distractions to deal with. With the release of the first Apple iPhone in 2007, smart phones became ubiquitous, if not at all smart. They offered such features as GPS route guidance and text messaging, along with mobile telephone connectivity. Since then, automotive manufacturers raced to integrate evermore communications and entertainment functions into their vehicles. For instance, many new passenger vehicles offer both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay as options. With the deployment of all these integrated applications, drivers today have more opportunities for inattentive driving than ever before.\nStill, it is important to separate the beneficial features in current automobiles from the frivolous, foolish and purely distracting. To me, crash prevention systems are all for the better. Even so, I do not wish to cede control of my vehicle to a self-driving, autonomous computer system. I have driven automobiles for over fifty years. Call me old fashioned, but I plan to drive and control of my own vehicles until I can no longer qualify for a driver’s license.\nAccording to the L.A. Times, Google, Tesla, Toyota and the other corporations have spent billions of dollars developing their own autonomous vehicles. What these companies forgot to do is to ask if we, the driving public want such a vehicle. My guess is that most drivers would prefer to control their own vehicle, rather than sitting passively while their Google Pop Car drives them to work or play. If most of us do not want Google’s self-driving car, toward what useful purpose could the company turn that investment?\nTo answer that question, Google need look no farther than three miles from their Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California. There, adjacent to the Central Expressway is the Mountain View Station, which serves both Caltrain and Amtrak passenger trains. Developed mainly as a freight railroad in the 1880s, the current passenger rail line stretches from Gilroy to its northern terminus in San Francisco. With the ongoing technology boom in the Bay Area, Caltrain operates ninety-two weekday trains along those tracks.\nToday, millions of people work and commute back and forth along the San Francisco Peninsula. Some travel on or parallel to the rail lines, while others cross one of the forty grade-level crossings along that rail line. Since 2005, there have been one hundred fifteen Caltrain-related fatalities registered on that busy rail line. Although a few were accidents, the majority of fatalities were determined to be suicides.\nAccording to the San Francisco Examiner, between August and October 2015, there were eight vehicle collisions with trains, four of which were in Burlingame and three of which were at the same intersection. “Running ninety-two trains per day on a corridor with more than forty roadway crossings presents a unique set of challenges,” Caltrain executive director Jim Hartnett said in a statement. “Those challenges have become more difficult with increased traffic congestion and more drivers, cyclists and pedestrians crossing our tracks on a daily basis.”\nIn addition to vehicle collisions, many of the fatalities occurred when pedestrians walked into the path of an approaching train. Were these pedestrians “texting while walking”, distracted by their smart phones or did they die in preplanned encounters with diesel locomotives? Although that is unclear, many victims appear to hide and then jump on to the tracks when it is too late to avoid a collision. If architects and planners had the luxury of creating a sealed right of way, like the BART system built in the 1970s, they would do it. With more than one hundred years of history, there is no way to seal off the peninsular rail corridor from either vehicle or pedestrian traffic.\nEach time a Caltrain passenger train collides with a motorist or pedestrian, the entire commuter system on the San Francisco Peninsula is negatively affected. Meanwhile, the autonomous vehicle group at Google has an opportunity to help save lives, speed commuter rail service and increase revenue in the process. To do this Google should adapt their various autonomous vehicle sensors to a railroad “pilot car”. If Google starts now, it could quickly develop and deploy what I call the “Google Pop Car” on the Caltrain route. Here is how it would work.\nThe Google Pop Car would be a lightweight, electrically driven autonomous rail car. It would have sensors and cameras capable of spotting both vehicles and pedestrians on or near the railroad tracks. As a “pilot car”, it would lead the way for each Caltrain passenger train, staying far enough ahead to be the eyes and ears for its following train. In an emergency, the Google Pop Car could remotely activate the Positive Train Control (PTC) system, thus halting the train prior to a collision.\nAs the Google Pop Car approaches a dangerous grade crossing or detects an errant pedestrian, it could activate its safety lights and train horn. If a Google Pop Car warns a distracted pedestrian or potential suicide victim, they might have time to reconsider their actions. Additionally, the Google Pop Car could stream both video and still pictures to the cab of the following locomotive. Utilizing face recognition software, police agencies could later identify potential perpetrators or simple risk-takers, thus allowing intervention or apprehension.\nIn my scenario, the Google Pop Car would race ahead to the next grade crossing. Upon approach, it would activate its rotating lights and sound its horn. Once the Google Pop Car had secures the crossing, it could depart, always staying ahead of its assigned passenger train. With proper coordination, the passenger train could maintain a steady speed, while ensuring the safety of both pedestrians and vehicular traffic. In the unlikely event of a collision, a lightweight Google Pop Car, with crash absorbing bumpers would cause minimal damage or destruction.\nAfter thorough testing of the Google Pop Car on the Caltrain line, other rail passenger agencies could adopt the technology. Had Google Pop Car technology been available to Metrolink in Southern California it could have saved many lives. Metrolink experienced eleven fatalities in its 2005 Glendale collision, twenty-five fatalities in its 2008 Chatsworth collision and the death of Senior Engineer Glenn Steele in its February 2015 Oxnard collision.\nIn the Oxnard collision, the “pilot”, a plow-like anti-derailment blade detached from the Metrolink Hyundai Rotem Cab Car. In September 2015, after realizing that its cab cars were unsafe, the Metrolink board met in a closed (possibly illegal) session to discuss its limited options. Almost immediately, Metrolink announced a decision to lease forty “heavy iron” Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) freight locomotives. Rather than exploring new safety technologies such as the Google Pop Car, Metrolink will rely on outmoded, conventional thinking. In coming months, inefficient, high-pollution BNSF freight locomotives will head-up all Metrolink passenger trains. In an “overkill” scenario designed to eradicate errant pedestrians and vehicles, Metrolink will rely on the tonnage of BNSF locomotives.\nEssentially all of the technology to produce, test and implement an autonomous railroad pilot car exists today. What is lacking in urban passenger rail systems such as Caltrain and Metrolink is a willingness to embrace the new technologies available for collision avoidance. Moribund and ossified thinking by politically controlled passenger rail agencies guarantees that California will continue to lead the nation in deadly rail collisions along its passenger rail corridors.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "By: Chioma Umeha\nGastroparesis – literally “paralyzed stomach” – is a serious condition manifested by delayed emptying of stomach contents into the small intestine after a meal. There is no cure for gastroparesis, but treatment can speed gastric emptying and relieve gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea and vomiting. Gastroparesis most often occurs in people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, but diabetes isn’t the only cause of gastroparesis. Other possible causes are: post viral syndromes; anorexia nervosa; surgery on the stomach or vagus nerve and medications that slow contractions in the intestine, particularly anti-cholinergics and narcotics.\nOthers are: smooth muscle disorders, such as amyloidosis and scleroderma; nervous system diseases, including abdominal migraine and Parkinson’s disease and metabolic disorders, including hypothyroidism. Symptoms of gastroparesis: The symptoms of gastroparesis include; feelings of fullness too soon after you start eating, bloating, heartburn, upset stomach, nausea and vomiting. These symptoms may be constant or may flare up from time to time with periods of relief in between.\nSome patients have no overt symptoms of gastroparesis and, in people with diabetes; the only sign may be difficulty controlling blood glucose. If the gastroparesis remains untreated, it can lead to additional complications, including malnutrition, dehydration and electrolyte imbalances. Treatment of gastroparesis is often two-fold. First, health care providers aim to improve gastric emptying and control symptoms. Second, they treat the underlying disease causing gastroparesis, if present.\nPeople with gastroparesis are advised to eat a diet low in fat and fibre. Also, eating six small meals a day, rather than three large ones, may allow the stomach to empty its contents more easily. Some people may benefit from replacing some solid meals with liquid meals, which pass through the stomach more easily. A number of medications are somewhat effective in promoting gastric emptying and relieving the nausea and vomiting of gastroparesis.\nThese include metoclopramide (Reglan, Metozolv ODT) erythromycin (ERY-C and other brands), cisapride (available in the United States only through a restricted program with the manufacturer because of rare but dangerous side effects) and domperidone (not available in the United States). Doctors may also recommend use of a device called Enterra, which provides intermittent or continuous stimulation to the stomach’s muscles via electrodes implanted under the skin that covers the stomach. The treatment can improve symptoms but has little effect on gastric emptying.\nThis story was published in Daily Newswatch on May 4, 2013.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In short, PARCC is a battery of common standardized assessments for English Language Arts/Literacy and Math. At the middle school level, the English PARCC assessment will focus specifically upon literary analysis, research simulation and narrative writing. Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education created an overview of PARCC titled, \"10 Things Parents Should Know About PARCC\". Take a look as it may offer some additional background information.\nAt JGMS we will have two waves of PARCC testing, one occurring in March/April and then another battery of assessments in May. These testing windows are determined by the state with the Performance Based Assessment (PBA) during the first wave and the End of Year (EOY) Assessment last. Fortunately, PARCC has released a series of practice tests for student use and many of our middle school students are well prepared. Please note our middle school students will take the PARCC in an online environment using either a laptop, iPad or desktop computer.\nBelow are a series of practice tests for math and English Language Arts & Literacy for the performance based assessments, which our students are currently taking this month. More information, and other types of PARCC practice tests, can be found online here.\nPARCC Performance Based Practice Tests:\n6th Grade Math: Performance Based Assessment\n6th Grade ELA/Literacy: Performance Based Assessment\n7th Grade Math: Performance Based Assessment\n7th Grade ELA/Literacy: Performance Based Assessment\n8th Grade Math: Performance Based Assessment\n8th Grade ELA/Literacy: Performance Based Assessment", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Have you already my post about ‘ What is UX? What are UX Research and Design? ‘? Or maybe you know what is User Experience, so you read first this overview of ‘ Methods of UX Research ‘. This third post complete notes I took during the MOOC ‘ Introduction to User Experience ‘ delivered by the edX platform. We focus there on the methods to produce a plan or a prototype of what will be the final product or outcome.\nThere is also a quiz with 10 questions to assess your knowledge about this topic.\n1) What is UX Design?\nDesign is not the final product, not the income, but it is a plan for producing that product or that outcome. And it is a plan for arranging elements and those elements will depend on the type of product it is.\nA design is a plan for arranging elements to accomplish a purpose. So, there is a purpose that this design is supposed to accomplish and it is supposed to help the users, or the consumers of the design to accomplish.\nAnd ultimately, a design is mostly about how it works and the functionality, and not just about how it looks. Of course, it also includes what it looks like and what it feels like.\nWhat is design?\nDesign is solving problems.\nQuote from Bryan Lawson:\n“Design is as much a matter of finding problems as it is soling them”\n(How Designers Think)\nIt is also about articulating problems in such a way that you can understand what the form and the criteria of a solution ought to be.\nThe Design Process\n- understand the problem\n- generate possible solutions\n- analyze solutions and select the most promising\n- embody solution: to build some kind of a prototype that can be used for really understanding how this solution should work. And that can also be used for assessing whether or not we are moving along the right track\n- assess (find new problems): one’s that you missed the first time around (important requirements or constraints)\n- … and repeat!\nWhat is special about UX Design?\nExperiences are interactive:\n- action-response rules\n- action: command options\n- response: information presentation\n- complex system behavior (focus on usability)\nContext is critical: understanding how and when and why people are using and interacting with our systems:\n- other interactions\n- other activities\n- what other people are involved\nThe UX Design Process\n- Understand the problem –> Study users: tasks and context\n- Generate possible solutions –> Sketch, storyboard, wireframe\n- Analyze and select –> Apply UX criteria\n- Embody solutions –> Build prototype\n- Assess (and find new problems) –> Apply UX Research methods (like users testing)\n- … and repeat! –> … and repeat!\nA prototype is…\nA representation of a design, made before the final solution exists.\nWhy do we prototype in UX?\n- reification: to make something real or make something concrete so that we can test ideas and figure out if they are going to work.\n- reflection: we can reflect on whether (prototypes) are meeting the design goals that we have, or whether they are taking us in a different direction.\n- communication: we can bring other stakeholders into the conversation to figure out if the design idea is going to work.\n- assessment: it facilitates performing user tests or getting feedback from users.\nPrototypes have many forms\nA “representation of a design” can mean a:\n- verbal description\n- navigation / flow diagram\n- physical model\n- formal specification\nIn UX we are talking about a representation of the system as it will be experienced by end users. And we typically produce prototypes at multiple levels of fidelity, from low fidelity to middle fidelity, to high fidelity prototypes as the design process progresses.\n=> Low-fidelity prototypes ignore things like graphics, like the colors and fonts that are going to be used. They don’t involve any programming.\nThey’re often made on paper so that they can be created cheaply and thrown away when they’re not needed anymore. And they don’t use real data as a result.\n=> These prototypes would address all of the concerns that lo-fi prototypes address like functionality and task flow, but start to also look at concerns like the layout, how specifically are all of the different fields and controls going to be laid out.\nThey might start to address some of the issues of interactivity, so how it actually feels to interact with the system, and how you navigate from one part of the system to another.\n=> Then, towards the end of the design process, when we are pretty sure we have the basic idea of the design right, we would produce high fidelity prototypes, which would tackle some of these concerns that we have a thrust in the meeting low fidelity prototype like graphic design, some more interaction details like maybe animations. And more realistic data that would map what users would actually be interacting with.\nStill a high fidelity prototype is not the final product. It would probably not involve the backend programming that would be required. And it might not have complete functional coverage, it would be focused on the task that that particular prototype is supposed to accomplish. Whether that’s to support a user test, to support communication with stakeholders and so forth.\nEconomic principle of prototyping\nThe best prototype is the one that, in the simplest and most efficient way, makes the possibilities of a design idea visible and measureable.\n(Lim, Stolterman, and Tenenberg)\nSo early in the process, you are concerned with functionality and task coverage and you are less concerned with the details of how it is going to look and feel. Later in the process, after you have established the basic functionality, you are going to be more concerned about those issues. And that is why we progress through different levels of fidelity as we prototype.\nThe main reason that we do this is we want to avoid premature commitment which is:\n- investing resources (time, money) in a dead end\n- waste money and effort\n- exhaust project resources/timeline, stuck with a bad design\n- cognitive and emotional commitments hard to undo\nLo-fi prototyping maximizes the number of times you get to refine your design before you commit to code.\nLo-fi prototyping uses lightweight materials that are quick, cheap, and easy to change.\nWhat happens before prototyping?\n- current needs\n- establish guidelines and constraints\n- personas, scenarios, user stories, requirements\nWhat happens after prototyping?\n1) new assessment\n3) more prototyping\nand so on… (iteration)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Apostles: Titus\nTitus was a companion to Paul and mentioned in the Epistle of Titus.\nTitus is believed to have been Greek, and a Gentile, from Antioch. The name Titus means pleasing.\nHe served as Paul’s secretary and interpreter and may have even been converted by Paul. Early Church tradition states when Paul came to the Island of Crete to preach, he ordained a disciple, Titus, as Bishop of Crete. This was because Paul was needed elsewhere and he left Titus to finish what he started.\nPaul sent Titus from Ephesus to Corinth to deliver the “Severe Letter” to the church there. 2 Corinthians 7:8 mentions the letter although it is now lost.\nHe then went on and met Paul in Macedonia, and later returned to Corinth with what we now know as 2 Corinthians.\nTitus is considered a “troubleshooter, peacemaker, administrator, and missionary.”\nTitus is the patron saint of the United States Army Chaplain Corps.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Abandoned Uranium Mines Plague Navajo Nation\nMining companies left behind a legacy of poisoned wells and contaminated earth\nThe mesas of Monument Valley rise deep red on the horizon. We are in Diné Bikéyah, land of the Navajo.\n“This is John Wayne country,” trained Navajo guide Gregory Holiday repeats his lines for an enchanted group of tourists. The view opens boundless to the sacred land of the Diné people, but for visitors it is presented as the iconic west of cowboys and Americana.\nPhoto by Sonia Luokkala\nThe sun sets and the last traveler boards the bus to leave Navajo Nation and head back to Flagstaff and into US-governed territory. With the bus’ departure, Gregory’s role as the light-hearted Indian guide ends. We take a gravel road to his home in the village of Oljato. During the jolty ride the rehearsed stories of Wild West heroes shift to memories of deceased loved ones.\n“My daughter loved to ride her motorbike in the desert,” he says.\nTwo years ago Gregory’s daughter died of lung cancer. Her child, Gregory’s granddaughter, was a victim of Navajo neuropathy, a rare condition named after the only population in which it occurs. For those suffering from the disease, limbs begin to tingle, then lose all sense of touch, and eventually appear curled as claws. Ultimately, the victim dies of liver failure. One study put the average age of death at 10. First described in medical literature in 1976, there is no cure.\nIn the 1940s, surveyors discovered significant uranium deposits throughout the once worthless desert landscape of the reservation. Between 1944 and 1986, as the US government aimed to cut off all dependence on imported uranium, nearly 4 million tons of ore were extracted to fuel the Cold War nuclear arm’s race. With the end of the war, the mining companies moved out. They were not required to clean up their mess and left behind the legacy of their extraction efforts, including mining waste and abandoned mines.\nThe incidence of Navajo neuropathy is five times higher on the western side of the Navajo reservation than on the eastern side. Some researchers believe this discrepancy is linked to the land: On the western side, the mines were mostly tunnels, whereas in the west they were primarily open pits. After the uranium companies left, the unfilled pits started to fill with water. Some, as deep as 130 feet, eventually formed into small lakes. Unsuspecting Navajos and their livestock use the contaminated water for drinking.\nA 1990 study of Navajo neuropathy ruled out water contamination as a possible cause of the disease. However, that study has since been cast into doubt. In 2006, the Los Angeles Times reported that the study “did not fully consider the role of uranium mining.” Interviewed for the LA Times story, Steve Helgerson, lead scientist for the study, said his team had ruled out water contamination because families impacted by Navajo neuropathy were supplied by multiple water sources. He said the team did not explore whether these multiple sources shared common contaminants.\nAs the Los Angeles Times also reported, in 1986, Thomas Payne an environmental health officer for Indian Health Services, along with a National Park Service ranger, took water samples at 48 sites surrounding Cameron, AZ, a town in Navajo Nation. These samples revealed uranium levels in wells as high as 139 picocuries per liter. In abandoned pits, the levels were as high as 4,024 pinocuries. The EPA limit for safe drinking water is 20 picocuries per liter. At the time of his study, Helgerson was not aware of these results.\nNo further studies have been conducted on the possible links between the environment and Navajo neuropathy. The source of the illness remains formally unknown, although similar symptoms were seen in the children of Chernobyl and in the victims of Minamata disease in Japan, both caused by environmental factors.\nConditions in Holiday’s hometown, Oljato, resemble those of a third world country. Residents have limited access to clean water and live in houses constructed of uranium-contaminated gravel.\nSix abandoned uranium mines that still emit dangerous gamma rays surround the village. In 2014, the EPA scanned almost 500 mines across Navajo Nation for radiation; the majority measured levels at least 10-times greater than background radiation levels, some as high as 25-times background radiation. Many of the highest radiating mines were found to be located within a quarter-mile of inhabited structure.\nGregory draws a deep breath through an oxygen mask attached to a tank standing beside his couch. A few years ago he also was diagnosed with a now common occurrence in Navajo Nation, lung cancer.\nIn the 1950’s, cancer rates in the Navajo population were so low that the people were thought to be immune to it. An article titled “Cancer immunity in the Navajo” was published in a medical journal in 1959. A decade into the mining era, cancer rates had more than doubled. According to a report by the Navajo Epidemiology Center, by 2004, cancer had become the leading cause of illness and death for the Navajo, a generally nonsmoking population.\n“Everything here makes us and the animals sick,\" Gregory said.\nIn his youth, Gregory was one of thousands of Navajo men lured to work in the uranium mines and mills. For him, as well as many others, employment as a miner or millworker was his first contact with the US wage economy. At the time, the miners were grateful.\nBut the Navajo saw little of the huge profits from uranium. Copies of miners’ pay stubs show payments of minimum wage or less: wages varied from an hourly $0.81 to $1.00.\nMoreover, in 2011, journalist Judy Pasternak reported in her book Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed that the miners suffered radiation exposure four times that of the Japanese targeted by nuclear bombs during World War II. Navajo language had no word for radiation and few Navajo people spoke English before the mining began. Officials knew uranium exposure posed serious health risks but made no effort to educate their workers. Protective clothing, masks or ventilation were never provided. Miners returned to their families daily with clothes covered in the yellow dust of uranium.\n“Others working with me died a long time ago” Gregory says.\nThe table is set with traditional Navajo soup made from Gregory’s family’s sheep. His is a story not heard by the 400,000 annual tourists crossing Monument Valley off their bucket list just 10 minutes out of town.\nToday, more than 1,200 uranium mines lay abandoned within the borders of Navajo Nation. Some are barred with rubble, but most are left exposed.\nThe task of cleanup is daunting. EPA coordinator Lillie Lane told me the cost to clean just two mines is estimated to be $131 million. Navajo Nation EPA is currently researching and identifying the mining companies responsible for the waste. The paper trail is long, but under the Superfund Act, these companies can be held accountable for the cost.\n“It is going to take 100 years,” said Lillie Lane, referring to the task of tracking down the responsible parties.\nLast week, those working to clean up the mining waste received a boost from the federal government: The Justice Department announced that the US will place $13.2 million in a trust to pay for the evaluation of 16 abandoned uranium mines on Navajo land. The contribution is part of a settlement agreement with the Navajo Nation.\nIn the meantime, fragile communities continue to live amid the poisoned wells and contaminated earth, and the uranium riddled sagebrush flats are home for the next generation of Navajo children. That is, at least until those responsible are held to account and the landscape is restored to what it once was, before profits were prioritized above the land and its people.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Infant Jesus of Prague (Pražské jezulátko in Czech) is a famous statue of infant Jesus located in the Church of Our Lady Victorious in Malá Strana, Prague. It´s history started in the 17th century when a statue of the Infant Jesus was brought into Bohemia and eventually was given to the Discalced Carmelites in Prague. Since then, the statue has remained in Prague and has drawn many devotees worldwide to go and honor the Holy Child. Many graces, blessings, favors and miraculous healings have been received by many who petitioned before the Infant Jesus.\nThe exact origin of the Infant Jesus statue was not truly known, but historical sources point to a small 28cm high sculpture of the Holy Child with a bird in his right hand carved in around the year 1340. Many other Infant Jesus sculptures were also carved by famous masters throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.\nToday, thousands of pilgrims pay homage to the Infant of Prague each year. The tradition of the Infant Jesus procession and the coronation continues to this day. On May 27,1995, a solemn procession of the Infant Jesus took place in the streets of Prague with Cardinal Sin of Manila (Philippines) and Cardinal Vlk of Prague leading the procession. This ceremony was the closing highlight of the annual Feast of the Infant Jesus in Prague.\nAs the devotion to the Infant Jesus spreads throughout the world, many parishes now offer Holy Mass and novenas to honor the Holy Child of God and many prayer groups have been formed.\ncontined at source URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_Jesus_of_Prague", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Four of the children are from Hardin County, and one is from Oldham. All went to a hospital to be treated for complications of E. coli, which attacked their red blood cells and affected their kidneys. The Lincoln Trail District Health Department said tests of milk from the suspected dairy and distributors were negative for E. coli, a bacterium common to the intestinal tracts of mammals.\n“Pasteurization is the process of heating a liquid such as milk to a high enough temperature to destroy disease-causing microorganisms,” Berkshire explains. “It also increases the shelf life of milk by destroying spoilage microorganisms and enzymes.”\nThe state Department for Public Health said, “DPH is stressing the dangers of unpasteurized milk after learning all the affected children had consumed it and because it is a known source of E. coli bacteria, as well as numerous other pathogens that can lead to illness.”\nSelling raw milk is illegal in Kentucky, but is available through a “herd share,” which allows members to buy an interest in a cow that allows them to take the milk home. “Northern Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican, introduced two bills earlier this year he characterized as ‘milk freedom legislation’ and would strip the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of its authority to police raw milk sales,” Berkshire writes. Supporters of raw milk say it helps people resist disease and promotes better growth, stronger teeth and better behavior.\nHowever, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted a study over a decade that found “the risk of outbreaks caused by raw milk is at least 150 times greater than the risk of outbreaks caused by pasteurized milk,” Berkshire reports.\nKentucky law requires milk must be pasteurized, and officials encourage buyers to check labels to make sure it is, and throw it out if pasteurization cannot be confirmed. “Even negative tests do not guarantee that raw milk is safe to drink,” the CDC says on its “Raw Milk Questions and Answers” webpage. “People have become very sick from drinking raw milk that came from farms that regularly tested their milk for bacteria and whose owners were sure that their milk was safe.” (Read more)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This was an Allied part of the cover plan for the 'Torch' landing in French North-West Africa (October/November 1942).\nIt was appreciated that the assembly of so many ships, quantity of stores and numbers of men in Gibraltar could not be concealed from the Axis powers, who had agents in Algeciras in neutral Spain across the bay from Gibraltar, so the 'story' promulgated by the 'Gibraltar Cover Plan' was that these forces were being grouped in readiness for a major amphibious expedition to relieve Malta.\nIt had initially been considered that the notional objective of the cover plan should be Dakar in French West Africa, with the landing craft then continuing round the Cape of Good Hope and this into the Indian Ocean to reach the Middle East, but it was then decided that this might persuade both the Germans and the Vichy French to create reaction forces which could then pose a danger to 'Torch', and that as soon as the convoys from the UK turned toward the east and thus the Strait of Gibraltar it would be clear that Dakar was not the objective. A cover 'target' in the Mediterranean was therefore preferable as this would allow the 'story' to be maintained to the last minute, and thus Malta became the object.\nMajor David Strangeways was assigned to Colonel John Bevan, head of the London Controlling Section, and despatched to Gibraltar, Malta, and the Middle East to brief the appropriate authorities. Strangeways departed London on 19 August, and in his luggage was an autographed copy of the latest book by Denis Wheatley, another deception officer, as a present for a British diplomat with a note from Wheatley with an 'indiscreet' note containing false information, it being hoped that this luggage was checked by Axis agents in Gibraltar or Cairo. Strangeways briefed the governor of Gibraltar and remained until a time early in September to assist the governor in getting the 'story' well established.\nThe governor was enthusiastic, and broadcast to all the troops at Gibraltar that 'the Rock' was becoming a transit base for the relief of Malta. The governor also travelled to Malta by air to 'co-ordinate' arrangements. Many maps of Malta were sent to Gibraltar. The 'story' was generally believed by the troops and also by the civilians of Gibraltar until the end of October, by which time they were coming to believe that this was a cover story and the real goal of the preparations was Dakar.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Problem of the Mind and Body\n‘the problem of giving an account of how minds, or mental processes, are related to the bodily states and processes' -Oxford Companion To Philosophy.\nThe problem is about how the immaterial mind which does not occupy space interacts with the physical body.\nOrginally the theory was fathered by Descartes and is known as Cartesian Dualism. Descartes believed that the mind and body connected through the penal gland, which was a part of the brain that was thought to have no purpose.\nHowever, we now know that this is not the case, and because of such there are a number of other theories which are used to explain how the connection occurs and is possible.\n‘What I ordinarily call me, according to Descartes, is actually two things; on one hand, an immaterial […]soul[…]and, on the other, a body.’ –Bernard Williams in Philosophy: Basic Readings\nThis is the idea that both aspect of the mind and body exist, and beneath this there are a number of theories expaining the relationship between the two.\nParallelism- The idea that both the mind and body exist, and that they are parallel to each other. However, they are unable to affect one another, for which the below suggestions for the connection are given. -Leibniz\n-> Occasionalism- Derived from Parallelism, this is the idea that the mind and body can affect one another only when God allows them to, who bridges the connection between them. -Malebranche\n-> Pre-Established Harmony- Again is derived from parallelism, and is the idea that our mind and body were pre-programmed to connect before we came into existence. -Leibniz\nEpiphenomenalism- The idea that has sometimes been considered as monistic. Here the mind is a byproduct of the brain, and because of such the body can affect the mind, and because the mind is only a byproduct, it cannot effect the body. -Huxley\nThe idea that only one of the two entities exist. There is not both.\nMaterialism- The idea that everything is purely physcal, there is no mental properties that exist.\nBehaviourism- All factors of us, including our personality, comes down to chemical processes within the brain. Our behaviour is merely a consequence of such.This is a form of materialism.\n'Ghost In The Machine'- Created by Gilber Ryle, this is the idea he put forward that presented the idea of an immaterial mind as something to be ridiculed. In this, he placed the idea that in the case of dualism, the mind is the apparent 'ghost' that runs the controlled 'machine'. As Ryle is a materialist, it is clear that he does not believe the idea of this, and instead is an opposer of him.\nIdealism- This is the form of mental monism, and states that everything is purely mental, there is nothing that is physical. In this, everything that appears to be physical is merely an illusion.\nLife After Death\nLife after death is something that relates highly to the concept of the mind and body. The reason for this is that the mind can be considered as the soul, and because of such the mind and body problem allows there to be a connection between the soul and body.\nImmortality of the Soul- This is the idea that after we die, our soul continues on in the afterlife in heaven or hell as the form of us. This is a Christian theory, and allows simply for the soul to be thought to be our essence of which is connected to the body.\nRebirth- Idea that we are constantly reborn into other bodies until we reach perfection and are able to become one with the universe. This is a Buddhist theory, and the name of the apparant 'soul' form here is the Atman. This can be considered as both Dualistic and Monistic as there is not specifically a soul, and therefore not a mind.\nReincarnation- The idea that our Atman is born into a different body in our next life, of which the quality is dependant on that of our current life. This is a Hindu belief and is Dualistic as it is necessary for the Atman, their form of soul, to exist.\nLife After Death II\nRessurection-This is a purely monistic theory, and is that after we die, God spiritually renews our body to bring us back to life. This is the original Christian concept, and means that we do not need a soul.\n'Replica Theory'- Invented by John Hick, this is the thought experiment that suggests that when we die, we are in a way recreated on another plane whihc is an exact form of us. This is different from a normal replica as it is not merely a copy. By having a 'replica' it is a continuation of our life after we have died, meaning that we are recreated with all of the same problems that we had when we died.\nThis is a problem in relation to the mind and body theory, and presents the factor of what exactly makes us who we are, and how what part of us seperates us from others.\nBody Criterion- This is the idea that everything we are comes down to our underlying and unchanging physical structure. Examples of this is our DNA, fingerprints and retina scans.\nMental Criterion- This is the idea that everything is purely mental, our own personal identity is our personalities which come down to our mental experiences. This is, therefore, a Dualist conecept, but can also be taken as an idealist one.\nMind Criterion- This si the idea that everything we are comes down to our memories and our previous experiences as they are different from everyone.\nThe meaning of the term Qualia is consciousness.\nRelating to the factor of the mind and body problem. It is the discussion of how far we can think of consciousness.\nWe believe that we are conscious, however, we are unable to know whether others are conscious, we are only able to suggest others consciousness through shared experiences, such as that that we know if we step on a piece of lego, it will hurt.\nThere is also the fact that we only believe ourselves to be conscious, yet we are known to percieve things differently to other people. Something we may see as red others may see as a dark orange.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Guacamole Day: The Best Guac Recipe Ever and the Benefits of Avocados\n7 minute read\nA side dish for many, guacamole is finally getting its turn in the center of the table as we celebrate National Guacamole Day.\nWhile the date of this celebration is September 16th, it is one of the most widely consumed foods in the United States in the middle of the winter and during the Super Bowl. A time of year when avocados aren’t even in season.\nHistory of Guacamole\nGuacamole originated before the 16th century, but at that time it was simply mashed avocados. In fact, the name comes from the Nahuatl word Ähuacamolli, which translates to the avocado sauce.\nAs mentioned, the original guacamole was simply mashed avocados, but the recipe grew to include some ingredients that were common to the area, such as tomatoes and onions. As Europeans arrived in the Americas, the recipe was altered a bit, and garlic and lime became staple ingredients.\nMuch like today, guacamole was very popular because of the flavor and the high nutritional value. The Aztecs even believed guacamole was an aphrodisiac, which boosted its popularity even higher.\nWhile the other ingredients have their place, it’s really the avocados that make guacamole the healthy treat that it is.\nHealth Benefits of Avocados\nAvocados are classified as a fruit because they contain a seed, but they’re unlike most common fruits. They’re primarily a carbohydrate but high in healthy fats. While the avocado has a lot of health benefits, it’s important to keep this fat content in mind.\nAvocados Are Nutritious\nAvocados are loaded with nutrients. They contain vitamin K, folate, vitamin C, potassium, vitamin B5, vitamin B6, and vitamin E. It also contains small amounts of magnesium, manganese, copper, iron, zinc, phosphorus, and vitamin A, thiamine, riboflavin, and niacin.\nWhile, on average, a Hass avocado has about 160 calories, it also has 2 grams of protein, 15 grams of healthy fats, 9 grams of carbohydrates, with 7 of those being healthy fiber. There is no cholesterol or sodium in avocados, and they’re low in unhealthy saturated fats.\nHeart-Healthy Monounsaturated Fatty Acids\nWhile you want to limit your avocado consumption due to the fats they contain, there is some good to be found in those fats.\nA whopping 77 percent of the calories in an avocado come from the fat, but the majority of that fat is oleic acid. This is the same monounsaturated fatty acid that’s in olive oil, and it’s why these fats are classified as healthy.\nOleic acid has been studied quite extensively, and it’s been directly associated with reduced inflammation, a major cause of disease and illness. That said, it’s the connection between oleic acid and cancer that’s most exciting.\n| Related: 9 Signs of Hidden Inflammation + Treatment Tips |\nA scholarly article reviewed many studies on oleic acid and cancer and determined that oleic acid, like that found in avocados, plays a role in activating intracellular pathways that prevent tumor development.\nFull of Fiber\nAn avocado is roughly 25 percent soluble fiber and 75 percent insoluble fiber. Both soluble and insoluble fiber are great for your body and have health benefits.\nSoluble fiber attracts water and slows digestion. It’s believed that this type of fiber is what makes you feel full for a longer period of time, and it appears to lower your risk of developing coronary heart disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and some gastrointestinal diseases.\nInsoluble fiber adds bulk to your stool, helping it pass through the body with fewer problems in the digestive tract. It can also help with weight loss.\nAvocados Lower Cholesterol and Triglycerides\nHeart disease is the most common cause of death in the world. High cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure, and some inflammatory markers can help predict potential heart problems. The good news is that avocados can help.\n♦ They reduce total cholesterol levels significantly\n♦ Blood triglycerides can be reduced up to 20 percent\n♦ LDL cholesterol is reduced by 22 percent\n♦ HDL cholesterol is elevated up to 11 percent\nDo all of these health benefits have you craving guacamole? If so, you’re in luck. The following recipe is the best guacamole recipe ever. What makes it even better is that it’s a very basic recipe that’s easy to make, and it takes full advantage of the health benefits of avocados, but on top of that, it can be easily altered to suit your tastes.\n3 ripe avocados\n1 lime, juiced\n1/2 of a small onion, diced\n2 Roma tomatoes, deseeded and diced\n1 jalapeno, deseeded and diced\n2 garlic cloves, minced\n3-4 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped\n1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste\n1. Scoop the flesh out of the avocados and put in a medium-sized bowl. Add the lime juice and mash with a fork to desired texture. Dice the onion and add it to the mixture.\n2. Slice your Roma tomatoes in half, lengthwise and use your finger to scoop out the seeds. Removing the seeds helps prevent your guacamole from having too much liquid and soupy consistency. Then dice the tomatoes and add to the mix.\n3. Deseed your jalapeno, dice it, and add it to the guacamole. Use a garlic press to mince your garlic cloves and add them. Chop the fresh cilantro and add it to the bowl with the salt.\n4. To store any leftover guacamole, place it in a bowl with an airtight lid. Use a spatula to smooth the top of the guacamole until it’s roughly level. Add cool water to the top to cover the surface. Cover with the lid and refrigerate.\n5. This should prevent oxidation of the avocado and will keep it fresher. Simply pour the water off when you want to eat it again.\nThe Bottom Line\nWhile celebrating guacamole gives you another reason to enjoy this delicious side dish, it’s really the health benefits of the avocado that transform this tasty treat from an appetizer to a scene-stealing superstar.\nAvocados have long been noted for their health benefits. Loaded with nutrients, healthy fats, and fiber, and avocado fuels your body with things it needs to thrive while fighting cancer and heart disease along the way.\nIf you want to boost your health in a natural way, try adding more avocados and guacamole to your meal repertoire.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "One of the stories that I will be using in this week's space and astronomy news will be the largest lunar impact ever recorded by NASA.Here's the video from NASA Television on YouTube: ScienceCasts: Bright Explosion on the Moon.\nNASA researchers who monitor the Moon for meteoroid impacts have detected the brightest explosion in the history of their program.More stories over the jump.\nNASA Television on YouTube: Kepler Update on This Week @NASA\nThis week, the Kepler science team announced the spacecraft was in a Thruster-Controlled Safe Mode. The root cause was undetermined but the proximate cause appears to be an attitude error caused by a malfunction in Kepler's reaction wheel 4, one of the telescope's pointing mechanisms. The team has since put the telescope in what's known as a Point Rest State, to minimize fuel usage while the investigation continues. Though no decisions have been made about the fate of the mission, the team notes that even if data collection were to end, Kepler has collected substantial quantities of data that should yield a string of scientific discoveries for years to come. Also, Living Off Earth, Future of Human Space Exploration, Garver briefed on Future Technologies, J-2X prepared for gimbal tests, Bolden checks out Aero Tech, Dreamchaser's arrival, Hangout with Star Trek cast and more!DarkSyde on Daily Kos has more general space and science news in This week in science: Common census.\nNASA Television on YouTube: Expedition 35 Back Home Safely on This Week @NASA\nThe Expedition 35 crew safely returned from the International Space Station with a parachute-assisted landing of its Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan on May 14, local time. Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency and NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn capped off 146-days in space full of activity -- for Marshburn -- some of it just hours before the crew departed. On May 11, he and fellow NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy completed a 5-hour, 30-minute spacewalk to replace a faulty coolant pump on the station's P6 truss and during a NASA TV in-flight event on May 7, Marshburn discussed the work being done on the International Space Station with members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Science and Space. Also, Next ISS Crew Focused on Launch, Humans 2 Mars, 40th Anniversary of Skylab, Curiosity Rover Update, Landsat's Vegas Time-Lapse, Fruit Flies Improving Flight, Student Launch Projects and more!Jen Hayden on Daily Kos has another take on Expedition 35's commander in Astronaut Chris Hadfield covers Bowie's 'Space Oddity' in space (VIDEO).\nNature (UK): Magnetar found at giant black hole\nMagnetized neutron star could test Einstein’s theory.\nEugenie Samuel Reich\n14 May 2013\nDale Frail couldn’t resist the prospect of watching a black hole swallow its prey. Frail, who is in charge of the Very Large Array (VLA) of radio telescopes near Socorro in New Mexico, had seen a report last month about a long-lived X-ray flare emanating from the centre of the Milky Way, home to a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Astronomers were speculating that the flare might be a sign that a gas cloud they had been tracking had begun its death spiral into the black hole.Time Magazine: Trouble in Deep Space: Wheel Malfunction Threatens Kepler Telescope’s Future\nFrail was sceptical. The cloud’s death was not expected until between September this year and March 2014. But Frail did not want to risk missing the action. Within hours of seeing the report, he had trained the VLA’s radio dishes on the scene, only to find nothing remarkable. Frail was puzzled. If the flare wasn’t the arrival of the gas cloud, what was it?\nAn answer soon came from other telescopes watching the drama at the centre of the Galaxy: the flare was coming from a magnetar, a highly magnetized kind of pulsar, or rotating neutron star. Its position near Sgr A* makes it a precious find. The magnetar’s regular radio pulses could be used to measure the warping of space-time near the monster black hole and to test predictions of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.\nBy Michael D. Lemonick\nMay 16, 2013\nAt this time last year, the scientists working on Kepler, NASA’s fantastically successful planet-hunting space telescope, were ecstatic. The probe, launched in 2009, had originally been given just three and a half years’ worth of funding, but in April, 2012, the space agency decided to extend the mission by another 3.5 years. With nearly 3,000 candidate planets in the bag already, astronomers were anticipating a boatload of even more exciting discoveries.Troubadour on Daily Kos gets the honor of the final story with Getting to Know Your Solar System (33): Dione.\nNot so much anymore. Last Sunday, the spacecraft’s aim began to drift, sending Kepler into “safe mode” while engineers tried to figure out why. The potentially fatal diagnosis: one of the probe’s reaction wheels, crucial for holding Kepler on target, had stopped working. And if the telescope can’t stay on target, the mission is effectively over. “Unfortunately,” said John Grunsfeld, the scientist- astronaut who helped refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope during a 2009 spacewalk, during a NASA press conference, “Kepler is not in a place where I can go up and repair it.”\nThat doesn’t mean engineers are quite ready to give up.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Madrigal family’s story is one of diaspora, loss, and intergenerational trauma. Abuela, the family matriarch, was displaced from her home and experienced the loss of her husband, which left her traumatised and unable to deviate from inflexible standards. Her trauma was passed down to her children and then to her grandchildren, who also felt the pressure to conform to these rigid expectations. The film emphasises the influence of parental pressure on children and how it can significantly impact their behaviour and choices.\nTransactional analysis (TA) views individuals as autonomous, which means that no external influence can force them to make decisions. In 1972, Eric Berne, the founder of TA, wrote about injunctions, while the Gouldings identified 12 core injunctions in 1976 that were related to negative early decisions made by people. Injunctions are pre-verbal messages that individuals receive from their parents, and it appears that Abuela may have sent some to Luisa.\nWhen examining Luisa’s mother, Julieta, we can see that she is a caring individual who possesses the unique ability to heal through her cooking. Julieta’s nurturing qualities may have arisen because she was responsible for parenting her own mother, Abuela, and made a conscious decision to live her life based on the “driver to please” others. Julieta’s need to please her mother was a survival mechanism that kept her secure. But this behaviour may have impacted Luisa negatively. Julieta’s compulsion to please may have caused her to lose her sense of self and overlook Luisa’s needs. As a result, Luisa may have internalised the message that she needed to work tirelessly, as people who strive to please others often do. This message may have led to her workaholic tendencies, as she may have had to work hard to gain her mother’s approval and affection. This is a theme that Luisa touches upon in her song, Surface Pressure, where she contemplates whether shaking off the crushing weight of expectations would allow her to experience joy, relaxation, or simple pleasures.\nIsabel, the oldest sister, exemplifies the consequences of striving for perfection. She may have internalised the message “don’t be you” from her mother, Julieta. As the eldest child of Julieta, who was herself the oldest of triplets, and Agustin, Isabel may have felt the burden of taking care of her younger sisters while trying to gain the love and attention of her emotionally unavailable mother. Perhaps Julieta had an idealised image of her child as beautiful and creative and only reacted positively to the aspects of her actual child that matched that image while ignoring the rest.\nIsabel’s passivity is evident in her decision to marry the “perfect” man, even though she later realises that it is not what she truly desires. Although Isabel has the potential to thrive, her life remains unfulfilled due to her be the “perfect driver”, which drives her to seek acceptance. Isabel’s endless hunger for perfection is a manifestation of the message she internalised from her mother: “You ought to be better.” This creates an insatiable appetite for the unattainable, and she becomes the “hungry ghost”, always craving, always gorging, but never filled, leading to a sad and ironic twist in her life.\nMirabel fails to meet her grandmother’s expectations as she does not possess the gift that runs in the family. Her mother and grandmother’s disappointment has soured the milk that Mirabel has drunk, and Abuela projects her own sense of disappointment onto Mirabel. Mirabel, in turn, adopts magical thinking and passivity, demonstrated in her song “Waiting for a Miracle.” Passive behaviour is a manifestation of discounting, which minimises the significance of a person or situation and serves as a form of denial. All the sisters fear making mistakes and being mistakes, and Mirabel fails to recognise that her gifted sisters are also struggling with overadaptation, another form of passivity. As the facade of the perfect and magical Casita cracks and falls away, each woman’s individual mask adopted to cope with their shared suffering also falls away. Abuela clings to the ultimate symbol of precarity, the open flame.\nIn order for a person to truly come alive, they must release their grip on life and let it be free to be itself. Possessiveness can act as a stranglehold on one’s own life and prevent them from experiencing it to the fullest extent. This idea is reminiscent of an essay by Alan Watts.\nMirabel, akin to the legendary Fool, represents chaos and creativity. Most significantly, she is always present in the moment, a theme that is relevant to Encanto. Mirabel acts as a catalyst for the Madrigal family’s healing process. She represents the Adult Ego State, which brings their script to consciousness.\nUpon my first viewing, the song “All of You” resonated with me deeply. Although the gift in Encanto operates as a metaphor for protecting the family lineage and future, I initially connected it with talent. I thought about the children I work with, many of whom discount their creative abilities, discrediting themselves with the phrase “I can’t draw!”\nIn What Else Can I Do? Isabel joyfully discovers that her gift is spontaneity and that embracing imperfection contains limitless potential. This made me think about the pressures of modern life and social media. Children are exposed to the kaleidoscopic display of extraordinary feats from savants around the world on YouTube. The weight of wanting to be gifted and accepted can be crushing. Sadly, being normal is no longer normal. As the line “You’re the real gift, kid” was sung, I hoped that children would hear this and internalise the message. Hopefully, the isolated character’s words would reach out to them in their isolation, telling them gently, “You’re enough. You’re OK.”\nMark James Hammond is a psychotherapeutic counsellor from Gateshead in England, who watches Disney movies with his daughter.\nThe articles we publish on Psychreg are here to educate and inform. They’re not meant to take the place of expert advice. So if you’re looking for professional help, don’t delay or ignore it because of what you’ve read here. Check our full disclaimer.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Poultry chickens: characteristics, care and feeding\nOf all the meat breeds of chickens that are known today in the world, brama is among the most popular. Admittedly, this species is worthy of such attention. All about poultry pomfret, including information about bird care and the features of its breeding, in the review below.\nThere are several varieties of pomfret that differ in their appearance and direction of use (in addition to excellent meat qualities, some representatives of the breed are grown as decorative and even fighting).\nDivide the brahm also in color. This criterion allows you to select at least four separate lines. However, the Americans, who are considered perhaps the most ardent admirers of the breed, prefer to breed grouse pomfret. All Brahms, regardless of color, are massive, large and beautiful hens with dense plumage and proud posture.\nDid you know? In English, the name of the breed is written as “brahma” and comes from the Brahmaputra River, which is the left tributary of the Ganges (moreover, it is one of the largest waterways of South Asia).\nIndeed, the bream breed, like many other most successful breeds of chickens, owes its origin to the Chinese and Indians.However, the American breeders nevertheless gave the final look to the modern breed, adding to the source material - the Asian leggy chicken - the blood of the Cochin, Chittagong and fighting Malay:\n|Head||Proportional, with a wide forehead.|\nThe ears are small, elongated.\n|Crest||Small but dense and fleshy. Three row. The teeth are not clearly expressed, the shape of the comb resembles a pea pod.|\n|Beak||Powerful and short, bright yellow.|\n|Eyes||Set deep and hidden under overhanging eyebrows, which gives the impression of a heavy and somewhat frown \"sullen\".|\n|Neck||Medium in size, gracefully curved, with a characteristic fold in front. The roosters are covered with thick plumage, similar to a lion's mane. With back and tail creates a curved line in the form of a lyre.|\n|Chest||Wide, with a high landing, stands forward.|\n|Stomach||Dense, wide, powerful, rounded.|\n|Wings||Large and strong, rounded in shape.|\n|Tail||Lush and short. Sticks up in the shape of a fan.|\n|Paws||Long and strong. Covered with a thick plumage similar to bloomers, especially dense from the back. A characteristic feature is that the middle finger does not stand out among the others in length.|\n|Plumage and color||The feathers are very thick, soft, but at the same time durable. Fit tightly to the skin. In layers, plumage throughout the body is colorful, pastel tones with a beautiful golden tint and a quaint partridge pattern (in the upper part of the body the general tone is darker, in the lower it is lighter). In roosters, the back is bright red, the lower part of the body, the tail and legs are contrast black, with a greenish sheen.|\nDid you know? Interestingly, at the stage of the formation of the breed, its productive indicators were much more impressive. So, roosters gained weight up to seven kilograms, and the sexual maturity of the laying hens came at the age of five months. However, over time, in breeding work, there was a distinct bias towards the decorative qualities of pomfret, as a result of which the size and precocity of the bird suffered a little.\nThe massive dimensions of the brama determine its nature. The wildness and increased activity of this breed are not characteristic: both the rooster and the laying hen are usually leisurely and sedate, as though they are full of feelings of importance and awareness of their own irresistibility.Despite the blood of fighting cocks flowing in the veins of the brama, the breed did not inherit the aggressiveness of its ancestors.Brahms are quite friendly, easily make contact and are tamed, thanks to which, as a parallel direction of their use, it is first of all necessary to call decorative (although on the usual home yard these phlegmatic and stately creatures look like a real decoration).\nAdvantages and disadvantages\n- The undoubted advantages of partridge \"Americans\" include the following features:\n- large sizes, making the breed suitable for use in the meat direction;\n- general unpretentiousness to the content and feed;\n- high resistance to cold (thanks to the magnificent plumage, the bird will not freeze even with significant minus readings of the thermometer and can be kept in unheated rooms without stopping egg production);\n- strong immunity and excellent vitality (in adult birds, mortality does not exceed 10%, in young animals it is about 30%);\n- good adaptability to the proposed conditions;\n- suitability for keeping in a limited space without walking;\n- bright decorative qualities;\n- calm and accommodating character.\n- Among the shortcomings of the breed are usually distinguished:\n- relatively low rates of egg production and rather late maturation;\n- prolonged period of egg production (during the first year, the breed gives very small eggs, not suitable for incubation);\n- very slow weight gain (applies to young animals);\n- increased susceptibility to infection by skin and feather parasites (a kind of payment for too thick plumage);\n- the need to be kept separate from other breeds to maintain baseline;\n- the need for an incubator for eggs or for a layer of lighter breed for hatching (heavy chickens with all their high maternal qualities simply press their own eggs, thereby causing considerable losses to the farmer);\n- the high price of breeding birds and the difficulty of their acquisition.\nImportant! Traditionally, bram (including partridge) is bred only in small farms and on private farmsteads. These birds are not suitable for large-scale industrial livestock breeding, since highly profitable production is based on a shorter cycle of young growth.\nMaintenance and care\nCare for partridge brahma is not particularly difficult, however, the determining factor that must be taken into account by the farmer is the large size of this bird.But her meek and calm disposition, on the contrary, can significantly save both on the size of the house and on the device of some additional equipment necessary for the maintenance of more active and lightweight “options”.\nDespite the phlegm and heaviness, Brahms do not tolerate the content in the cells and require a full house.\nThe following requirements are imposed on him:\n- sizes. The standard calculation of the size of the house for sedentary meat breeds of chickens involves placing on one square meter from two to four birds. Thus, for a herd of 20 partridge brams, it is necessary to allocate a room with an area of 5-10 square meters;\n- flooring. The most environmentally friendly and at the same time warm material remains wooden boards;\n- temperature condition. Chickens feel best in the range from + 23 ° C to + 25 ° C, however in winter they can easily withstand lower rates. If there is good thermal insulation, special heating for the house can be omitted;\n- lighting at least twelve to fourteen hours a day. For this, large windows should be provided in the room, and in winter - additional lighting should be provided (for each square meter of area, 4 to 6 watts of light will be required);\n- dryness. The lavish plumage makes the partridge grouse particularly vulnerable to various parasites, which breed in large numbers in a humid environment;\n- ventilation. Air stagnation is another factor contributing to the development of pathogenic microorganisms. However, circulation must be ensured in such a way that the inhabitants of the house are not exposed to drafts;\n- litter. The floor can be lined with hay, peat, straw or sawdust, which should be changed regularly to avoid the development of pathogenic microflora in them. The wooden floor can not be paved in the summer (this will save money and simplify the cleaning process). However, in winter, the litter plays a heating role, so you can not do without it (and in an unheated house, the layer of such insulation should be about 12 cm).\n- on three sides of the house, nests (three to five per hen) and perches. The height of their location for large chickens should be at least 40 and a maximum of 50 cm from the floor. The width of the perch should allow the bird to comfortably accommodate. This requires at least 30 cm.\nIn addition to nests and perches, in the room where the brahma is kept, there must be special bathtubs for dry bathing. They need to be filled with a mixture of fine sand and ash or ash (1: 1 ratio). This will help protect the luxurious plumage of chickens from parasites.\nPartridge pomfret, like other heavy meat hens, can be kept without free walking, however, if there is such an opportunity, it must be used.\nThe benefits of patio equipment for walking are mutual, and here's why:\n- the chicken enjoys walking; as a result, the productive qualities of the bird increase, its immunity strengthens;\n- the farmer has the opportunity to seriously save on feeds, since a significant part of his diet will be obtained by the chicken on its own (moreover, it is not only about green feeds, but also about the protein component - various kinds of worms, bugs and other small animals).\nThere is one more plus. It is noted that the meat of chickens allowed to free-range is much tastier than that of birds that spend their whole lives indoors. Since brahma is a meat-based chicken, this argument is of paramount importance.\nDid you know? Many farmers are well aware that the place where the hens graze very quickly takes the form of “scorched earth”. This circumstance often forces the owners to deny their feathered herd the right to walk. Meanwhile, the problem has a different, elegant and witty solution: in the territory where there was a courtyard for walking chickens, the most beautiful English lawns are obtained. It’s enough to just plant lawn grass on such a site, and others have already taken care of removing weeds with roots and seeds.\nIt is very easy to organize walking for the partridge pomme, as a heavy and slow bird has its own characteristics:\n- does not require a large walking area;\n- not able to fly even through a low fence.\nIn summer, Brahms can walk outdoors all day. In winter, walking time should be limited, but they should not be completely stopped (in any case, if the air temperature outside the house has not dropped below -10 ° C).\nFeeding troughs and drinking bowls\nPouring food onto the floor of the house, as some homeowners still do, is generally an unsuccessful idea. In this case, chickens peck their own droppings with food, which significantly increases the risk of infectious diseases (such as, for example, coccidiosis).\nIn addition, the host will be forced to throw out most of the feed along with the change of litter, which makes the maintenance of an already not too cost-effective brama too expensive.\nImportant! Stimulating a lazy and inactive mob to active movements by the need to search for food is much more correct by arranging a courtyard for walking than by using the entire chicken coop as a feeder.\nIt is precisely because of hygiene requirements that feeders and drinking bowls in the chicken coop do not just have to be provided. It is also important that, using them, the birds are deprived of the opportunity to climb into the tank.\nTo do this, the equipment is installed at a height corresponding approximately to the level of the chest of an adult bird. As the material for the feeder, you can use:\n- plastic pipes;\n- plywood boxes;\n- plastic containers;\n- improvised items (buckets, plastic bottles).\nImportant! According to generally accepted sanitary standards, each adult chicken requires at least 10 cm of its own space in front of the feeder.\nAs for drinking bowls, experts recommend not saving and purchasing ready-made nipple-type devices. Then the water in the birds will always be clean and fresh (a similar design can be made with your own hands).\nHerd replacement planned\nThe peak egg production in partridge pommes occurs in the second and third years of the laying hen's life.\nThen the average annual number of eggs decreases quite noticeably, and subsequently, although the ability to lay the chicken can keep up to ten years, an average of no more than four dozen pieces per year.\nOf course, such indicators (three eggs a month) cannot satisfy the needs of even the smallest farms, especially since the cost of feeding the brom is very significant. For this reason, the chicken herd is usually completely renewed once every three years.Roosters show approximately the same age indicators of maximum productivity, so the rule about the frequency of replacement also applies to them.\nDid you know? About four thousand eggs are laid in the body of the chicken from birth, while a person has more than a million.\nIf breeding is not planned, then the cock in the herd is not needed. The presence of a male does not directly affect egg production, although, according to the observations of many owners, under the protection of a rooster, laying hens still feel much more comfortable. However, since this is a meat breed, as a rule, its content still involves the generation of offspring.\nThe optimal ratio of males and females in a chicken parent flock is this: one rooster per ten layers.\nWhat to feed\nLarge bramas require more abundant feeding, which significantly increases the cost of their maintenance. In addition, the diet of these chickens also has some differences, without which the declared productivity indicators cannot be counted on.\nIt is necessary to feed an adult herd in a balanced manner, however, the basis of the diet - about 14% - should be high-calorie protein foods. Dry food should be alternated with wet (it is better to give it in the middle of the day), but in general, hens should receive such components:\n- grain mixtures (preferably crushed);\n- combined feed;\n- various mixers using waste from the host table;\n- soybean meal;\n- green food (in winter - in dried form);\n- fresh vegetables and fruits (beets, cucumbers, zucchini, carrots, pumpkin, apples);\n- fodder yeast;\n- fish or meat and bone meal;\n- feeding - fish oil, eggshell, chalk, limestone or small shells (source of calcium);\n- other vitamin and mineral supplements.\nImportant! Boiled potatoes should not be given to chickens; intestinal upsets occur in birds from this product.\nIt is also necessary to remember that heavy and lazy shamas have a tendency to gain weight and obesity, therefore it is necessary to strictly monitor that the birds do not overeat and move as much as possible.\nThe herd kept indoors should be fed three times a day, always at the same time. Water in direct access to birds should be constant.It is important to ensure that it is not too cold (in winter, the contents of the drinkers should be heated).\nChicken prawn chickens need to be fed more often than an adult herd. The first ten days of life, the bird is given food every two hours with an eight-hour break at night. Further, until the chickens reach the age of one and a half months, the number of feeds during the day is reduced to five to six times (every three hours).And even after that, up to six months, the chicks should eat at least four times a day.\nAs for the diet itself, here it is possible to use several options.\n- high quality starter feeds;\n- crushed grain mixtures (wheat and corn in a ratio of 2: 1);\n- Self-made “salad” from boiled egg, wheat and corn groats and grass mountaineer.\nImportant! Young adults can be transferred to an adult diet no earlier than six months. A month before this, the amount of protein food should be reduced in order to prevent too quick a set of muscle mass, which is still difficult to hold on to a fragile skeleton.\nRegardless of the chosen form of feeding, young birds need to be given only fresh food, and new additives (feed, sprouted grain, vegetables, vitamins) should be introduced into the diet gradually.\nIt should be borne in mind that the winter diet should be approximately 10-15% larger than the summer diet, since the bird incurs additional energy costs due to the need to maintain its own body temperature in a cold room.\nPartridge brews are chickens, the main feature of which could be called true Asian sluggishness, and this quality is manifested not only in character. This cannot but upset the farmers (meaning weight gain and starting the egg production process).But to compensate for such inconveniences, the bramas look very impressive, and the high meat productivity and unpretentiousness of the living conditions make them the invariable inhabitants of a huge number of small household plots.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What does semantic annotation mean\nWhat is Semantic Annotation? Semantic annotation is the process of labeling documents with related concepts. These documents are enriched with metadata: references linking content to concepts, described in a knowledge graph. This makes unstructured content easier to find, interpret and reuse.\nSemantic annotation or tagging is the process of attaching metadata to text documents or other unstructured content, concepts related to it (for example, people, places, organizations, products, or topics). Unlike classic text annotations for reader reference, semantic annotations can also be consumed by machines. Semantically tagged documents are easier to find, interpret, compose, and reuse.\nHow semantic annotation works\nSemantic annotation enriches content with machine-processable information by associating background information with extracted concepts. These concepts, found in a document or another piece of content, are clearly defined and interrelated both inside and outside the content. It turns content into a better manageable data source.\nA typical semantic enrichment process includes five steps: text recognition, text analysis, concept extraction, relation extraction, indexing and storage in the semantic graph database;\n1. Text recognition\nStep 1: We remove boilerplate from unstructured text content.\nText is extracted from non-text sources such as PDF files, videos, documents, audio recordings, etc.\n2. Text Analysis\nStep 2: We perform a standard set of natural language processing operations on the content – such as sentence splitting, part-of-speech tagging, and named entity recognition.\nAlgorithms break down sentences and identify concepts such as people, things, places, events, numbers, and more.\n3. Concept extraction\nStep 3: We classify and disambiguate the identified entities.\nAll identified concepts are categorized, meaning they are defined as people, organizations, numbers, etc. Next, they are disambiguated, that is, they are unambiguously identified against the domain-specific knowledge base. For example, Rome is classified as a city and further disambiguates that Rome, Italy, is not Rome, Iowa.\nThis is the most important stage of semantic annotation. It recognizes chunks of text and transforms them into machine-processable and understandable chunks of data by linking them to the wider context of existing data.\n4. Relationship extraction\nStep 4: We also determine the relationship between known entities and newly recognized entities.\nThe relations between the extracted concepts are identified and further correlated with relevant external or internal domain knowledge.\n5. Index and store in semantic graph database\nStep 5: Finally, the extracted knowledge (represented as a graph) is stored in our semantic database\nAll mentions of people, things, etc., as well as their relationships, are identified and enriched with machine-readable data, then indexed and stored in a semantic graph database for further reference and use.\nSemantic Annotation Process\nThe result of the semantic annotation process is metadata that describes a document by referring to concepts and entities mentioned in or related to the text. These references link content to formal descriptions of these concepts in the Knowledge Graph. Typically, such metadata is represented as a set of tags or annotations that enrich a document or a specific fragment thereof with conceptual identifiers.\nSemantic metadata can be stored in knowledge graphs instead of being embedded in documents. A modeling approach that supports extensive analysis is to store annotations as individual objects that refer to documents, which are also nodes in the graph. In this way, documents and annotations become first-class citizens of the knowledge graph, which can be indexed and queried alongside other types of data: ontologies, schemas, references, and master data.\nCreate intelligent content with a machine-processable edge\nThink of semantic annotations as a highly structured digital edge (annotations made in the margins of a book or other document), usually invisible in the human-readable portion of the content. These notes are written in a machine-interpretable data-form language and serve computers to perform operations such as classification, linking, reasoning, searching, and filtering.\nExamples of semantic annotation\nFor example, semantically labeling selected concepts in the sentence “Aristotle, the author of politics, founded the Academy” means identifying Aristotle as a person and politics as Written works of political philosophy and further index, classify and link identified concepts in the semantic graph database, also known as triples. In this case, Aristotle can be linked to his date of birth, his teachers, his writings, etc. Politics can be linked to its subject matter, date of creation, etc. Given semantic metadata about the above sentence and its links to other (external or internal) forms of knowledge, the algorithm will be able to automatically:\nFind out who taught Alexander the Great;\nAnswer which of Plato’s students established the Academy;\nRetrieve a list of political thinkers who lived between 380 BC and 310 BC;\nPresents a list of Greek philosophers, including Aristotle.\nSemantic annotation application field\nWhat semantic annotation brings is intelligent data fragments that contain highly structured and informative annotations for machine reference. Solutions that include semantic annotation are widely used in risk analysis, content recommendation, content discovery, detection of compliance, and more.\nSemantically annotated content opens up cost-effective opportunities to:\nSearch for content other than keywords;\nContent aggregation beyond manual filtering;\nRelational discovery beyond human research.\nSemantic annotations make it easy to:\nFind relevant information in piles of documents with the help of an errand machine;\nextract knowledge from different sources;\nProvide personalized content based on machine understandable context;\nAutomatically interconnect content.\nWant to learn more about semantic annotation and its practical applications?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "\"Yoga helps create a safe space for students and teachers. By empowering an individual to feel balanced and strong within his or her own body, yoga enhances resilience. Through these practices many young people develop the capacity to reflect before acting, limiting impulsivity. Yoga promotes cooperation and creative thinking, improving learning readiness.\nYoga is self-rewarding in many ways. Most postures get easier with practice; the poses and breathing help many students feel more relaxed after just a few moments. The lessons provide teachers with tools for modeling compassionate interaction among students. Doing yoga makes the teacher feel better, too, and this spills over into the classroom experience for all.” - Louise Goldberg, “Classroom Yoga Breaks: Brief Exercises to Create Calm”\nThis book is an essential resource for any classroom teacher, absolutely packed with simple, powerful exercises and activities. It’s written in plain, accessible language, and addresses multiple related topics such as how yoga complements mindfulness training, physical education, and social emotional learning. Louise talks about the neuroscience behind why it’s effective (in a way we non-scientists can easily understand), and even gets into yoga as an antidote to bullying.\nAnd Louise is just about the kindest, sweetest person you could ever hope to meet. Go get it!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "One of the advantages of working in this microsoft program is that it offers you a lots of tools and functions that allow you to create professional spreadsheets in a very easy and fast way. Usually when working on these spreadsheets it is necessary to insert different elements to them.\nAmong the most common elements that are frequently inserted are the rows, cells and columns, the latter being one of the most used elements. All this will allow you edit and create your fully customized Excel files.\nIn accordance with this, here we are going to explain what are the steps you should take into account when wanting insert a column to your worksheet. To do this, you will need to follow each of the steps that we are going to teach you below in detail.\nWhat should we keep in mind before adding a column in Excel?\nAt the moment of wanting add a column to your spreadsheet you must bear in mind that If you have other information added there, this could be affected. Especially what are the formulas and functions. The best thing to do in these cases is insert these elements at the beginning, that is, when no other has been added yet information to the sheet. This will prevent your information may undergo changes or simply get out of order.\nSteps to insert a column into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet quick and easy\nTaking into account all of the above, the following will be teach you how to insert a column in your excel worksheet. Keep in mind that this procedure is quite simple and quick to do.\nTo do this, follow the steps that we will indicate below:\n- The first thing you should do is enter Microsoft Excel.\n- There you go to set all data that are necessary in spreadsheet.\n- In the case you want add a column you must keep in mind that it is always it will be added to the left side of the box you have selected. In the example that we show you below you can see the months of January to June, but between April and June it is necessary may. In this case you must add a column to complete that month.\n- To do this, select the checkbox “June” and right click with the mouse, there select the option of “Insert”.\n- A box will appear with four options in this case select “Insert a whole column” and click “To accept”.\n- As can be seen in the following picture It has been inserted a new column to the left side of the selected box, in this case you can already create the column of “May” in excel spreadsheet.\nIf you have any questions, leave them in the comments, we will answer you as soon as possible, and it will surely be of great help to more members of the community. Thank you! 😉", "label": "No"}
{"text": "As we prepare our kiddos for a fun day or evening of trick-or-treating, let’s also help make it safe for them. The American Red Cross offers us some common sense safety tips worth repeating:\n– Walk, slither, and sneak on sidewalks, not in the street.\n– Look both ways before crossing the street to check for cars, trucks, and low-flying brooms.\n– Don’t hide or cross the street between parked cars.\n– Wear light-colored or reflective-type clothing so you are more visible. (And remember to put reflective tape on bikes, skateboards, and brooms, too!)\n– Plan your route and share it with your family if you go only with friends. If possible, have an adult go with you.\n– Carry a flashlight to light your way.\n– Keep away from open fires and candles. (Costumes can be extremely flammable.)\n– Only visit homes that have the porch light on.\n– Accept your treats at the door and never go into a stranger’s house.\n– Use face paint rather than masks or things that will cover your eyes.\n– Be cautious of animals and strangers.\n– Have a grown-up inspect your treats before eating. And don’t eat candy if the package is already opened. Small, hard pieces of candy are a choking hazard for young children.\nRead more safety tips at the National Safety Council (NSC.org).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The World Heritage Committee on Thursday accepted the request of the government of Mali to place Timbuktu and the Tomb of Askia on UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger. The decision aims to raise cooperation and support for the sites threatened by the armed conflict in the region.\nThe Committee, meeting in St Petersburg until 6 July, also asked Mali’s neighbours to do all in their power to prevent the trafficking in cultural objects from these sites. There is concern that such objects, notably important ancient manuscripts, be looted and smuggled abroad by unscrupulous dealers.\nThe 21 members of the World Heritage Committee urged the African Union and the international community to do all in their power to help protect Timbuktu, inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage in 1988, and the Tomb of Askia, inscribed in 2004.\nThe Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has repeatedly urged international cooperation to protect the two sites which bear witness to the golden age of Timbuktu in the 16th century and to a history that stretches even further back to the 5th century A.D. She has also voiced grave concern for the 17th century pyramidal Tomb of Askia.\nUNESCO’s Director-General sent a mission to the country in May to envisage ways to work with the authorities on the preservation of the two sites.\nThe List of World Heritage in Danger is designed to inform the international community of threats to the outstanding universal values for which a property has been inscribed on the World Heritage List, and to encourage corrective action.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "While I am always looking for new and interesting bows to try, I have to admit I was a little surprised when I discovered the two main categories of hunting bows – the top row and the bottom bow. I didn’t think that was right. Why not make all hunting bows into either the top or the bottom?\nWe're an affiliate\nWe hope you love the products we recommend! Just so you know, we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. Thank you if you use our links, we really appreciate it!\nWell, it turns out, if you go by weight and stiffness you can change a bow from being on the top to being on the bottom. I have a friend who is into bows who actually does that. That’s the one that I usually end up using because of the twist.\nSome of these types of bows have more twists than others. A fancy name for a twist is “J”. What it really means is that the string is closer to the bow. It is also easier to get a better draw than it is to get a short, steady shot with a stiffer bow.\nStiffer bows usually have a thicker, heavier shaft. There are many reasons for this. A thick shaft usually requires a longer draw length to give it enough momentum to get the arrow through the wind and then the arrow to the target.\nIt is much easier to move a stiffer bow around and place it in different positions without breaking it. A stiffer bow can also be difficult to master. You don’t want to loose your aim while shooting or you can wind up hitting something else.\nOne other thing about hunting bows that you should know is that bows are heavier at the top and lighter at the bottom. When the draw weight goes up the weight is usually kept the same. The reason for this is because the string gets closer to the bow and therefore the string doesn’t take up as much weight, thus increasing the force on the string.\nThe reason this is important is that you want the arrow to fly straight and down the target. In this case the target is a ball or a post on the ground. The string can actually move in two directions at once; it can move backwards and forwards. So the larger the portion of the string that moves backwards you can get a faster shot.\nAnother important factor to consider is the shaft stiffness. The difference between a stiff and a flexible shaft is the difference between accuracy. When the draw weight of a bow goes up, so does the amount of stiffness of the shaft has.\nIf you have ever seen a deer stand in the woods in full swing and with the deer in front of you and all you could see were its eyes, that is the difference between a stiff and a flexible bow. The eye of the deer is going to stop just a little shorter than the eye of a bow. As you tighten the bow string, the deer’s eye starts to drift further back.\nTo get the right kind of draw you will need to determine what type of hunting bow you need to get. The four main types of hunting bows are archery hunting bows, compound bows, recurve bows and compound crossbows. Each type of bow has it’s pros and cons, but they are all equally effective for most hunting situations.\nWhile there are several hunting bows available, it is important to find one that fits the needs of the hunter and the situation. There are a lot of hunting bows on the market that can handle whatever you are after. If you want a quick draw bow, you can find that too.\nWith a good quality bow, a set of arrows and some practice you can be a very successful hunter. Just be sure that you do your homework first.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Atheism is \"As old as human thought, as old as belief, and the conflict between the two is a constant feature of western civilization\" (2).\nIn fact, there were doubts about religions even in antiquity, and early philosophers such as the pre-Socratic Xenophanes expressed their reservations. (See box). Xenophanes was lucky because a century later, in 399 BC, Socrates was sentenced to death for wickedness.\n“Blunt-nosed and black: that's how the people of Ethiopia see the gods\nBlue-eyed and blond: that's how their gods see the Thracians\nBut the cattle and horses and lions, if they had hands\nHands like people, for drawing, for painting, to form a picture,\nThen horses would be the gods like horses, the cattle like cattle\nPainting, and their shapes, the shapes of the divine bodies,\nCreated in her image: each one in his own. \"\nXenophanes (around 570-470 BC).\nIn the 19th century it was then - in a modification of this quote and of Genesis 1:27 - correspondingly:\n\"Man created God in his own image.\" (3)\nIn the Judeo-Christian West, monotheism (belief in one god) was a matter of course that was hardly questioned for many centuries. As in the Islamic Orient, where one can still endanger one's life today if one dares to doubt Islam - and thus Allah. Because for a Muslim, turning away from his religion is a crime worthy of death.\nBut in Europe the old traditions and the religions as such had to allow themselves to be questioned since the time of the Renaissance and the Baroque. In a centuries-long intellectual dispute that is still ahead of the Orient.\nDoubts about the ecclesiastical worldview\nIn the 16th century, the \"New Astronomy\" with its heliocentric view of the world (the sun in the center of the planetary system) contradicted literal interpretations of the Bible.\nIn the 17th century, the “New Science” - natural science - refuted Aristotle's failed physics with Newtonian mechanics. This pagan was worshiped almost like a saint in the Christian Middle Ages, and his theories were considered sacrosanct by theologians.\nThe pioneers of the New World View, such as Copernicus (1473-1543), Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Galilei (1564-1642), Kepler (1571-1630), Newton (1642-1726) were all Christians who had no doubts about the Creators sowed nor wanted to attack the Church. But their scientific knowledge collided with the teachings of the Church or even with the sacred Scriptures, which are considered sacrosanct - the Bible.\nThe Catholic Church, already badly shaken by the successes of Protestantism in Northern Europe, saw itself attacked and its claim to power threatened. Astronomers and philosophers who embraced the new astronomical view of the world had to fear all the harshness of the Inquisition.\nCopernicus only published his heliocentric worldview on his deathbed, which Aristarchus of Samos had already contemplated in the 3rd century BC. Giordano Bruno ended up at the stake and Galileo had to renounce what he said. Kepler and Newton worked in somewhat more tolerant, Protestant regions and escaped the inquisition of the Catholic Church.\nEven the philosophers of the Enlightenment were by no means all godless. Just think of one of their most famous, Voltaire (1694-1778), branded as an atheist, who fought a lifetime against superstition, injustice and the failings of the church. His last statement, dated February 1778, reads:\n\"I die confessing God by loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and abhorring superstition.\" (4).\nIn the 19th century, a bitter dispute arose over Darwin's theory of evolution, which was not compatible with the biblical story of creation. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was also not an atheist, more of a believer, who, however, did not want to accept illogical church teachings (cf. \"Darwin and Evolution\", under \"Science\").\nThis is how progressive scientists got into unnecessary arguments with the church and its unrepentant representatives into the 20th century. They stuck rigidly to old, misunderstood traditions as \"basic religious truths\"; if only because they often did not understand or did not want to understand modern, scientific knowledge.\nAnyone who questions unsustainable religious teachings or turns away from failing religions is sometimes branded an \"atheist\" even today.\nBut some scientists strike back. They not only question church dogmas, but also deny the meaning of religions or even the being of God. Although it has been sufficiently proven since Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) at the latest that the existence of God can neither be proven nor refuted with material or philosophical means. So the atheist is also a \"believer\", namely one who believes that it is none God gives. Recently, the biologist Richard Dawkins (born 1941) made headlines with his book “Der Gotteswahn” (1), his “Foundation for Reason and Science” and the “Atheist Bus Campaign” he supported. He would like to do away with the religions entirely, which unfortunately have continually failed in history and which have often not only brought good things. (See. \"Why other religions\", under “History of Religion”).\nThe declaration of the world\nIn inanimate and animate nature, innumerable, more or less complicated physical and chemical processes take place; next to and with each other. In ancient times and in the Middle Ages, the prerequisites for understanding these natural processes were lacking. There was a lack of useful theories as well as suitable research tools. It seemed hopeless to bring order to this confusing variety of natural processes.\nThe religions provided the necessary explanations of the world. First with pagan myths and legends, then with revelations that claim to proclaim the will of God. If no one knew what to do next, the priests could finally rely on the \"Inexplicable will of God, who leads everything to the best\" withdraw. People could live with such primitive explanations of the world, even if much was not understood in the dark.\nWhen rational explanations of the world were sought and the old traditions were questioned, a natural philosophy arose in antiquity that initiated a split between science and religion, as it has become so important in modern times. Because with increasing knowledge of the laws of nature, the space for the belief in miracles of religions, which wanted to close knowledge gaps, shrank. The biologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) spoke of the “God's housing shortage\".\nBut justified criticism of religion is not synonymous with atheism!\nThe split between science and religion\nThis split is based on a misunderstanding: Because natural sciences and religions are two different endeavors in the search for truth with different questions.\nThe religions ask about that Causes and according to the meaning; the natural sciences observe them Apparitions.\nThe basis of the natural sciences is the exploration of phenomena, its field of work is matter.\nTrue religiosity, on the other hand, can only be a spiritual endeavor to establish contacts with areas beyond the limits drawn by our physical ability to perceive. So science and spirituality are two fundamentally different approaches to understanding the world and life. The power of religions begins where earthly power ends.\nToday the natural sciences are highly developed and provide an apparently closed, hard-to-attack materialistic worldview. Spirituality, on the other hand, is underdeveloped, located on the fringes of society and has a hard time being taken seriously. Spirituality has largely been suppressed from today's religions.\nThe Dilemma of Faith\nFrom their origin, religions should be the bridge between the \"two worlds\": the one on this side, the world of matter, and the other, the spiritual world. Even in biblical times, many people gave this bridge-building to others, to prophets, seers or priests.\nEminent personalities should act as mediators between the earthly area and the spiritual realm, who have a deeper insight into the weaving of creation or through contacts with the hereafter. When these personalities do their job, they are respected and have authority. A vocation to the priesthood is about experience of creation knowledge that eludes theological subtleties - beyond animism, pantheism, polytheism, or monotheism.\nBut here lies the dilemma, the deep problematic of all religions: A mediator between the spiritual and the earthly must be a spiritual person; best of all a gifted one, chosen by \"higher powers\". This leads to the question of who or what decides that they are “higher powers”? Who decides which source is true? The answer can only lie in the feeling of each individual; because no one can be relieved of personal responsibility for their earthly and spiritual life. From nobody!\nEarthly training may be useful and helpful to a priest, but it is not enough for a spiritual guide. Far higher intellectual and spiritual qualities are required of this than of the average person. If priests cannot meet these requirements, they must fail in the fulfillment of their actual task. Your religion is degenerating, losing its credibility. Crimes can be done in the name of faith, and disappointed believers ultimately doubt even God himself.\nNeither scientists nor theologians can claim to know the \"truth\". At most, natural scientists find “factualities”, and theology, with its old, uncertainly handed down and often misunderstood traditions, has been going in circles for centuries.\nBecause the truth as such lives only in God. It is eternal and unchangeable, inviolable. Our limited, very sketchy one Understanding the truth but is one inner Subjected to a process of development that will never end. Wrong paths and steps backwards cannot be ruled out.\nWhy the \"new fashion\" atheism?\nMaterialism has become the world's dominant hypothesis that hardly tolerates any other approaches. The epitome of materialism is provided by physics, the working method of which - the combination of observation (measurement) and calculation - was so tremendously successful that it affects all areas of our life, sometimes almost crushing it.\nThe materialistic hypothesis excludes extra-material influences. She wants to explain all phenomena in the world from the properties of matter. Accordingly, everything that has an impact on our world must also be measurable, and what cannot be measured is considered to be insignificant, negligible, non-existent. Our scientific worldview does not leave room for spirituality, religiosity, or even for God.\nNot even for the concept of a divine order of creation, a superordinate ethic. Just as little as for a further life after death, where we have to give an account in the hereafter for our thoughts and actions in this world.\nThe thought of the \"Creator of Heaven and Worlds \" is uncomfortable for many; for he vaguely suggests that HE may make demands on us that we do not meet.\nThis is how one suppresses such thoughts and takes the easy path of materialistic thinking, which the great majority has long since taken. One denies everything higher, in which religious people see the more essential, and one becomes agnostic or atheist.\nToday's person thinks above all of himself and his personal well-being; maybe to his children and grandchildren. He does not believe himself to be really responsible for the fate of the globe, and there is no higher, spiritual responsibility.\nBut a society without any spiritually or religiously based ethics; a community that does not feel responsible to a higher authority is doomed to failure.\n(1) Dawkins, Richard, Der Gotteswahn, Ullstein, Berlin, 2007.\n(2) Minois, Georges, Geschichte des Atheismus, Böhlau, Weimar, 2000, page 29 f.\n(3) https://de.wikipedia.org> wiki> Atheism.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Pharaoh Death Mask (10 Points)\nCreate a death mask of a specific Pharaoh that will serve as an honour to them and their service to the Egyptians.\nDo research about this Pharaoh. (research must be kept track of in a google doc or in a notebook. Research should include notes on what you learned and where the source was (web address? book title author? This information will be used in class to create a bibliography)\nYou may use clay, plaster, cardboard, or draw a picture. If you draw a picture, do not use only colored pencils and/or markers. You must find different objects to enhance the picture (i.e. glitter, beads, jewelry, colored rice, etc) Decorations around the Pharaoh should reflect facts we know about the pharaoh. Example: \"Aton the Pharaoh reduced the Egyptian Gods to one RA the Sun God.\" So if he is your pharaoh then you might have a picture or symbol of the sun.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Thursday, January 28, 2010\nEuro cities: Paris, Roma, London, Berlin\nHours: 1, 3, 5, 6\nComparing the Great European Cities / Paris, London, Rome and Berlin\n1. Research info and images.\n2. Edit, identify appropriate material.\n3. Assemble presentations.\n4. Share work on Google Docs.\nEach team of students takes a city and sub-divides into\n- Demographics (pop, literacy, PCI, ethnicity, etc) - 3 images\n- History (major conquerors, major periods, those famous in\ntechnology, arts, business) 4 images\n- Contemporary connections (trading partners, technology,\nrelationships w neighbors, languages, products & brand names, etc)\nAt the end of 3 research & assembly sessions, students will have\nproduced packages containing -\n- minimum of 10 slides / images\n- bulleted explanations (brief, edited material) on each slide (about 3 info bullets per image)\n- images that are clear and large when projected\n- spelling, grammar\n- On additional slides: quiz for classmates / 7 multiple-choice general, simple questions.\n- Map quiz items from the city and nation (Ex: Atlantic Ocean, Alps Mtns.) for class quiz. At east 7 items, 7 images.\nPresentations will take place in the classroom.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Thursday, August 11, 2011\nScientists Fopund New Genetic Variants Linked To Multiple Sclerosis\nScientists have found 29 new genetic variants linked to multiple sclerosis (MS) and say the findings should help drug makers focus treatment research on precise areas of the immune system.\nIn a study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, researchers said the newly-found links point to the idea that T-cells a type of white blood cell responsible for mounting an immune response, and chemicals called interleukins play a key role in the development of the debilitating disease.\nDrugs in development that target the immune system include rituximab, sold under the brand name Rituxan by Roche and Biogen to fight leukemia, Tysabri from Biogen and Elan, Lemtrada, sold as Campath by Sanofi's unit Genzyme for cancer, and Abbott and Biogen's Zenapax or daclizumab.\nMid-stage trial data for daclizumab released on Tuesday showed the drug on a par with other new medicines for MS, but some of he side-effects were worrisome.\nMultiple sclerosis is one of the most common neurological conditions among young adults, affecting around 2.5 million people worldwide.\nIt occurs when the protective coating, known as the myelin sheath, around nerve fibres in the brain and spinal cord begins to break down, slowing the brain's communication with the rest of the body.\nThe affected pathways responsible for everyday activities such as seeing, walking, feeling, thinking and controlling the bowel and bladder lose the ability to function properly and are eventually destroyed.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "1. What are Alexander’s two claims with regard to conscious control?\n2. What evidence does he give to support the second?\n3. In embarking upon his enquiry into the conditions of humankind, what did Alexander realize from the outset?\n4. What is the explanation of the problem of our susceptibility to disease as compared to other animals as put forth by the Eugenists?\n5. Why does Alexander reject this explanation?\n6. Where does Alexander seek for the cause of physical deterioration?\n7. Why do our instinctive actions grow ever more limited?\n8. What are the 3 possible outcomes to the fact that our “…whole body is a body politic ruled by two governors whose dictates are not invariably consistent one with the other?”\n9. From what does the formulation of the method of conscious control arise?\n10. What is the essence of this method?\n11. Where must the first effort in re-education be directed?\n12. How is the normal process of education conducted?\n13. How is the haphazard process of education to be broken down, and what must be established for re-education to occur?\n14. What are the 4 essential stages in the performance of any muscular action by conscious control?\n15 Why will no system of physical exercises alter the condition of the subject described in the example?\n16. What are the 4 stages (p. 82) in the inculcation of the principles of conscious control applied to the individual?\n17. Why is it important that pupils have a clear differentiation in their mind between the giving of the mental order and the performance of any act through the medium of the muscles?\n18. What happens when the end is held in mind?\n19. What are the first, if not the only, stumbling blocks to the teaching of conscious control?\n20. Where do the preconceptions and habits of thought with regard to the uses of the muscular mechanisms come from?\n21. By what means is it often necessary to break down these preconceptions of mind?\n22. How may mental habits be reached?\n23. What are the general effects of this method of teaching conscious control?\n24. What is possibly the greatest effect of this method, and why is this effect so important?\n25. What does Alexander foresee as the future of a race which has been educated on the lines of conscious control?\n26. Upon what are we forced to depend when guided chiefly by instinct? What will allow us to develop our potentialities to the full?\n27. In what ways is the teaching method as a rule entirely wrong?\n28. What must happen before a pupil can make real progress?\n29. What does a typical teacher forget?\n30. What must be done to eradicate a specific defect without causing other defects?\n31. What is Alexander’s process with a pupil who is “…deluded regarding his sensations and unable to direct his actions?”\n32. How long is this process repeated?\n33. What is Alexander’s opinion as to the cause of congenital or acquired crippling and distortion?\n34. What is Alexander’s method when faced with the above?\n35. How does Alexander contrast himself with faith healers in this chapter?\n36. Why does Alexander not allow his pupils to close their eyes?\n37. From where does Alexander believe the majority of defects arise, and how can these defects be eliminated?\n38. How does Alexander view practice?\n39. What has Alexander had to point out to his pupils regarding the imitative method of teaching?\n40. Why can the “means whereby” not be stated in a general formula?\n41. Of what is the “mean whereby” the result, and how must it be taught?\n42. What are the steps of Alexander’s own treatment?\n43. Why is conscious control imperative?\n44. What is possible with conscious control?\n1. Alexander talks in this chapter about developing a “healthy condition of the whole organism” (p. 87) in a person with congenital crippling and distortion. Is congenital crippling and distortion a structural or a functional defect? Can using Alexander’s methods effect change in structural defects, or only in functional ones? If a pupil comes to us with “defects,” how do we decide which (if any) are structural and which functional? Do we need to make this decision to be effective as teachers? Can mental attitude cause structural defects or only functional ones?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "New Species Of Cave Dwelling, Hook-Footed Spider Is An Ancient Anomaly\nA new breed of spider has been discovered in America's Pacific Northwest that is so radically different it represents not only a new species but an entirely new family of species. Unique to this surprisingly large arachnid are strange hook structures on its feet, only furthering its already imposing appearance.\nCalled Trogloraptor, which translates roughly to \"cave robber,\" the spider was first discovered in the field in 2010. However, it wasn't fully described as an independent species until this year. The study describing the species was led by arachnologist Charles Griswold, and was published this month in the journal ZooKeys.\nLike Us on Facebook\nTrogloraptor posses a number of unique adaptations that set it apart from modern spiders. About three inches wide including legs, the light brown spider appears to live primarily in caves and forest undergrowth. Males posses large \"pedipalps\" near the mouth, and both male and female have a distinctive dark \"V\" shape on their backs.\nMost striking is the spiders' long legs, with flexible hooks at the end. According to Scientific American, Griswold says that the spiders might use these specialized hooks to grab their prey. Instead of waiting in a web, Trogloraptor's hang from silk and snatch their insect prey from midair. Unfortunately, researchers have yet to witness this behavior, but are basing their assumptions upon the hooks' similarity to another, distantly related spider which hunts in this manner. According to Griswold, the hook-feet have evolved independently from one another, suggesting a similar use.\nArachnid species in North America are, by and large, well understood. So much so that Wikipedia notes that Trogloraptor is one of only three new species to be described since 1990. However, the unique environment still produce surprises. \"The troglofauna,\" that is, species which live in caves, \"of the Pacific Northwest is poorly surveyed and several arachnid groups are known to have multiple undescribed species,\" write the researchers.\nThough certainly distinctive in appearance, closer examination revealed such strange features as a particularly archaic respiratory system and simplified reproductive system. Such features, write Griswold and his team, warrant that Trogloraptor have its own family-the classification above genus and species-called Trogloraptoridae. Trogloraptor is, so far, the only species in the newly described family.\nThe researchers believe that Trogloraptor's split from other spider families occurred about 130 million years ago, and as such they retain many features not seen in modern spiders. \"In many ways,\" write the researchers, \"Trogloraptoridae are a collection of primitive character states.\"\n\"If such a large and bizarre spider could have gone undetected for so long,\" concluded the researchers in the study. \"Who knows what else may lurk undiscovered in this remarkable part of the world.\"\n© 2012 iScience Times All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We are living in a dark time where we see blood flowing everywhere on the land in the name of religion, race, language, culture and colour. The most widespread extremism is religious extremism, when someone stands up and chants the name of God, “God is Great” and takes an innocent life.\nGod commanded us to respect other religions, whether you believe in them or not, whether you accept their ideology or not and whether you agree with its principles or not, you must show your tolerance and honor towards other’s belief. This is the teaching of God of Abraham.\nIn the holy book of Torah, God says:\n“Shall the Judge of all the earth not do Justice?” (Gen 18:25)\nAccording to the definition of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: “He sought to be true to his faith and a blessing to others regardless of their faith.\nWe call ourselves the generation of the 21st century and claim to live in the first world yet behave like monsters, showing no respect or dignity. We claim to be the most advanced race in the world, yet we enjoy killing people in the name of race and religion. Those who lived back in the time of the dark ages, knew nothing about the social and moral values but had faith in God and had tolerance for other religions. They were far better than the 21st century’s advanced generation who believe in nothing but race and color.\nWhen the world turned into a global village, we became so close to each other via social media, for example, but we rapidly lost our credibility of acceptances and Highjacked the ownership of religion from the hands of God. We formulated our own creeds and principles in religion and one of them is to enforce the religion of God on others because we wrongly believe that “My religion is better than Yours”.\nGod says in the holy Quran:\n“There is no compulsion in religion” (Al-Baqarrah: 256)\nWe Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) have very much in common such as we believe in God, eternal life and accountability hereafter, hence we differ each other in many ways but we still have a common agenda that is to please God in our own ways. But, when we take religious authority in our hands, problems occur.\nIt was a time back in the day, when Judaism and Christianity became politicalised. The leaders of those religions started corruption and mischief in the name of God. The followers of those religions were sick of the religious corruption and finally decided to abandon the religion. Their religious leaders took God’s authority in their hands and issued the decree of salvation to those whom they were pleased. It was hell for ordinary people in the world and hereafter by their religious clerics. They lost hope in God and became disbelievers. The belief of hopelessness dragged them to be agnostics and atheists.\nThe same story repeats in the era of Islam. Since Islam became politicalised, the violence and mischief spread all around the world in the name of God. People became hateful by following the ideology of political Islam. The peaceful image of Islam became the shadow of terror by the Islamists. We started slaughtering those who did not follow the doctrine of the political Islam. We corrupted our religion by issuing the religious decrees of paradise for those who kill non-Muslims. We started calling martyrs to those who committed suicide terrorism in the name of Allah. We granted 72 virgins in paradise to those who kill as many unbelievers as he/she can. It was a miscarriage of the core principles of Islam and turned them into the ethics of violence. We forgot the very important principle of Islam, which the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) described:\n“Whoever says there is no god but God, will enter paradise.” (Al-Hadith)\nWe made our religion the source of extremism by blindly following ignorant clerics. There is no room of extremism in Islam, yet we justified our extremism from the religious texts.\nThe Prophet of Islam said:\n“… Beware of extremism in religion….” (Al-Hadith al Nas’ai)\nThe definition of this hadith is described by Ibn Taymiyyah (RA):\n“His statement ‘Beware of extremism in religion’ is comprehensive, including all types of extremism, whether in belief or in actions” (Iqtida al-Sirat al-Mustaqim – 1/328)\nThere is no justification of Extremism whether in Islam, Christianity or Judaism. All humans belong to the God of Abraham (PBUH). We do not have the right given by God to judge someone’s belief which is his personal matter.\nWe (people of books) must not be defensive when we are being exposed through our extreme actions in terms of violence and mischief. We must accept our wrongdoings instead blaming other religions that their extremists are worse than ours or our extremists are less violent than theirs.\nThis is not a number game but a matter of a life, a life which is given by the God of Abraham, the life that has the full divine right to live in peace and practice his/her belief without any fear and persecution.\nWhy don’t we look inside us and find out who is using our name, our identity and our religion to achieve his personal goals? The followers of the three divine religions are stuck within their wrongdoings and hardly accept it. We have no courage to stand up against extremists within us whether they are less in quantity or high. There should not be a numbers game about who killed more or less. Killing is killing, no matter what.\nThe God of Moses says in the Talmud:\n“Therefore, the man was created singly, to teach that he who destroys one soul of a human being, the scripture considers him as if he should destroy a whole world.” (Babylonian Talmud)\nNow let’s read how God of Muhammad confirms the verse of Talmud in the holy Quran:\n“Because of that, we decreed upon the children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely.” (Quran 5:32)\nGod mentioned in the above quoted verses, that “Human” life is more important than the life of a Muslim, Christian or a Jewish, individual.\nThe people of the three religions face the worst kind of extremism in our societies and we do not smell the danger of the crash of cultures. We need to reform our way of religious life and start to believe that our God is the same God and we all are His followers whether he is the God of Abraham, the God of Jesus or the God of Muhammad. We are actually doing a great blasphemy of God in regards to creating a mischief on Earth in His sacred name.\nAt the end, I stop my pen by believing in what Rabbi Jonathan Sack believes, that:\n“To invoke God to justify violence against the innocent is not an act of sanctity but of sacrilege. It is a kind of blasphemy. It is to take God’s name in vain.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "by Katie Bowell, Curator of Cultural Interpretation\nWith the season of gift giving upon us, I find myself surrounded by advertisements for “beautiful” things. A diamond necklace, a new car, a flat screen television: all these objects ultimately end up being called “beautiful.” This somewhat cavalier use of the term “beauty” over such a broad spectrum of objects leads me to wonder about the real meaning of the word. What is beautiful, and how do we know?\nDennis Dutton, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Cantebury in New Zealand and the editor of Arts & Letters Daily, has an idea for an answer. What is beauty? Dutton argues that it’s a core part of our human nature – one with deep evolutionary origins that began before we even had the ability to speak.\nIn his fascinating and wonderfully illustrated Ted Talk, “A Darwinian Theory of Beauty,” Dutton explores the idea of a universal understanding of beauty. According to Dutton, it is possible to discover an evolutionary history of our artistic and aesthetic tastes, and to see how what we presently call beautiful is the result of millennia of influence from the environments our ancestors lived in and the situations they encountered.\nMy favorite part of Dutton’s talk is his discussion of Acheulian hand axes. Teardrop-shaped stone tools made 1.4 million years ago and found throughout Europe, Asia and Africa, Dutton argues that these are tools that became the first known works of art, functioning as sexually selective fitness signals of skill and intelligence the way a male peacock displays his feathers.\nThe next time you come to the museum, be sure to stop by our exhibit on the Lindenmeier Archaeolgical Site and look at the display of artifacts. It’s easy to look at the artifacts as stone tools: a projectile point, a knife, a scraper. It’s much more awe inspiring, however, to also look at the artifacts as works of art and things of beauty. You’ll be surprised just how much your perspective changes.\nSo, is anyone planning on giving a hand axe to someone special this year?\nRead a transcript of Dutton’s talk here.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Posted by Ashley on Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 11:35pm.\nAn obsever is looking out to sea from the top of a building that is 30 m above sea leavel. He observera ship at an angle of depression of 10. How far is the ship from the foot of the bulding?\nMath -- assistance needed - Writeacher, Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 8:02am\nPlease type your subject in the School Subject box. Any other words, including obscure abbreviations, are likely to delay responses from a teacher who knows that subject well.\nJuwayria Highscholl - MathMate, Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 10:31am\nFor your security, please refrain from posting the name of your school.\nLet O represent the observer,\nB = base of the building (vertically below the observer O), and\nS = the observed ship.\nOBS represents a right-triangle right-angled at B.\nAngle of depression\nSolve the right triangle:\nOB = 30m\n&BSO = 10°\ntan(10°)=OB/BS = 30m / BS\nSolve for BS\nBS = 30m /tan(10°)\n=30m / 0.17633 (approx.)\n= 170 m (approx.)\nAnswer This Question\nMore Related Questions\n- Maths - An observer at the top of a lighthouse 55m Hugh sights a ship at a sea ...\n- Math, trigonometry - An observer in a lighthouse 47m high sights a ship at at an...\n- maths - From an aircraft flying at 8000 metres above sea level the angle of ...\n- Geometry - There is a flagpole in the school parking lot. Which of the following...\n- Precalculus - The angle of depression From the top of a 75-foot lighthouse to a ...\n- Pre-Calculus - During a storm a ship is being tossed up and down by huge waves. ...\n- calculus - A lifeguard was staring at a ship in the distance, and watched the ...\n- 11th grade - A lifeguard was staring at a ship in the distance, and watched the ...\n- Math(angle of depression) i need help please.. - An observer on top of a cliff ...\n- HELP!!!! - Lee is on a cliff 360 m above sea level, the angle of depression of a...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "That Vladimir Lenin and his fellow revolutionaries of 1917 considered the Social-Democratic leader Karl Kautsky a pedant and a philistine is well known. Lenin pinpointed the reason for Kautsky’s post-1914 renegacy in his dilution of Marxian dialectics. “How is this monstrous distortion of Marxism by the pedant Kautsky to be explained…??” the Bolshevik asked rhetorically in a section of his 1918 polemic, The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky, “How Kautsky Turned Marx into a Common Liberal.” “As far as the philosophical roots of this phenomenon are concerned,” he answered, “it amounts to the substitution of eclecticism and sophistry for dialectics.” In another chapter, Lenin accused Kautsky of “pursuing a characteristically petty-bourgeois, philistine policy [типично мещанскую, филистерскую политику]” by backing the Mensheviks. Needless to say, Lenin’s immense respect for the so-called “Pope of Marxism” before the war had all but evaporated.\nWhat is less well known, however, is that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels shared this appraisal of Kautsky. But this would only be revealed in 1932, several years after Lenin’s death, in extracts published from their correspondence. Engels confided to Eduard Bernstein in August 1881 that “Kautsky is an exceptionally good chap, but a born pedant and hairsplitter in whose hands complex questions are not made simple, but simple ones complex.” Marx, for his part, suspected that Engels’ fondness of Kautsky was due to his capacity to consume alcohol, as he recorded in a note to his daughter Jenny Longuet from April that same year:\n[Johann Most, grandfather of legendary Boston Celtics announcer Johnny Most,] has found a kindred spirit in Kautsky, on whom he had frowned so grimly; even Engels takes a much more tolerant view of this joker [Kautz, punning on Kautz-ky] since the latter gave proof of his considerable drinking ability. When the charmer — the little joker [Kautz], I mean — first came to see me, the first question that rose to my lips was: Are you like your mother? “Not in the least!” he exclaimed, and silently I congratulated his mother. He’s a mediocrity, narrow in his outlook, over-wise (only 26 years old), and a know-it-all, although hard-working after a fashion, much concerned with statistics out of which, however, he makes little sense. By nature he’s a member of the philistine tribe. For the rest, a decent fellow in his own way; I unload him onto amigo Engels as much as I can.\nLeon Trotsky was caught off-guard by the casuistry Kautsky displayed after 1914, remembering the praise he had showered on the Russian workers’ movement a decade or so earlier. “Kautsky’s reactionary-pedantic criticism [педантски-реакционная критика Каутского] must have come the more unexpectedly to those comrades who’d gone through the period of the first Russian revolution with their eyes open and read Kautsky’s articles of 1905-1906,” declared Trotsky in his preface to the 1919 reissue of Results and Prospects (1906). “At that time Kautsky (true, not without the beneficial influence of Rosa Luxemburg) fully understood and acknowledged that the Russian revolution could not terminate in a bourgeois-democratic republic but must inevitably lead to proletarian dictatorship, because of the level attained by the class struggle in the country itself and because of the entire international situation of capitalism… For decades Kautsky developed and upheld the ideas of social revolution. Now that it has become reality, Kautsky retreats before it in terror. He is horrified at Russian Soviet power and thus takes up a hostile attitude towards the mighty movement of the German communist proletariat.”\nTrotsky underscored this point again thirteen years later in defending Luxemburg against the calumnies heaped upon her by Stalin. “Lenin considered Kautsky his teacher [when he wrote What is to be Done?] and stressed this everywhere he could. In Lenin’s work of that period and for a number of years following, one doesn’t find even a hit of criticism directed against the Bebel-Kautsky tendency. One rather finds a series of declarations to the effect that Bolshevism is not an independent tendency, merely a translation of the Bebel-Kautsky tendency into the language of Russian conditions. Here is what Lenin wrote in his famous pamphlet, Two Tactics, in the middle of 1905: ‘When and where have there been brought to light differences between me on the one hand and Bebel and Kautsky on the other? Complete unanimity of international revolutionary Social Democracy on all major questions of program and tactics is an incontrovertible fact.’ …But between October 1916, when Lenin wrote about the Junius pamphlet, and 1903, when Bolshevism had its inception, there was a lapse of thirteen years, during which Luxemburg was to be found in opposition to the Kautsky and Bebel Central Committee, and her fight against the formal, pedantic, and rotten-at-the-core ‘radicalism’ of Kautsky took on an ever increasingly sharp character.”\nJust a decade or so after Trotsky penned these lines, Adorno wrote contemptuously in Minima Moralia of “the so-called heritage of socialism and the philistinism [Banausie] of the Bebels.” Franz Borkenau, a left communist also associated with the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research in exile, remarked upon the undue respect accorded to Kautsky and his ilk. Borkenau mentioned in this connection the disparaging statements made by Marx and Engels in private about their disciple. In Borkenau’s 1939 overview of World Communism, he wrote:\nAdmiration for Western Marxists played more than one trick on Lenin, which is remarkable given that his reverence was spent on men who, without exception, were his inferiors in every respect. Two cases are particularly interesting. One concerns Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov, the man who introduced Marxism in its original form to Russia. Plekhanov had published a number of studies on philosophy which, though one-sided, are probably superior to Lenin’s work [Borkenau is likely referring here to Materialism and Empiriocriticism, since the notebooks on Hegel were not widely known in the West]; as a politician, though, Plekhanov was of no account. He ended as an extreme partisan of Menshevism, openly fighting Lenin. Nevertheless Lenin retained a particular admiration for this man the rest of his life; after all, he had brought Marxism to Russia! But the case of Karl Kautsky, the official theoretical mouthpiece of German Marxism, is far more noteworthy. Anyone who takes the trouble to collect the quotations concerning Kautsky in Lenin’s prewar writings will soon be convinced that Lenin regarded this man as no less than an oracle. Kautsky, it is true, was the delight of that German Marxist left wing that so miserably collapsed in August 1914 and after. This was no reason for Lenin to admire him, yet he did. For Lenin believed as firmly in the German socialists as in Kautsky. The latter was a man timid and slow in politics, wooden and unoriginal in theory, true to the type of philistine who would appear a theoretician. A few mocking remarks about him survive in the correspondence of Marx and Engels. As to the German Socialist Party which Kautsky represented, Lenin trusted it so firmly that when, in 1914, he learned of their voting for the war credits he first believed it to be a forgery of the German Foreign Office.\nUnfortunately, the letters Borkenau alludes to here (fully excerpted above) may have been the undoing of the great scholar David Riazanov. Riazanov was arrested on March 6, 1931, accused of conspiring with the Mensheviks against the dictatorship of the proletariat. His brilliant assistant at the Marx-Engels Institute, Isaak Rubin, a first-rate economic theorist, gave him up after enduring several weeks of torture. Meanwhile, in Mexico, Trotsky wrote incredulously about the charges leveled at Riazanov. On May Day, he published an article, “A New Slander against David Riazanov.” You can read it below.\nMay 1, 1931\nThe March 12 issue of Pravda published a note entitled “Marx on Karl Kautsky,” signed by the “Marx-Engels Institute.” This note subsequently was reproduced without comment by the world press of the Comintern. On the surface, the center of gravity of this note lay in the remarkable passage from a letter by Marx in 1881 which made a crushing characterization of Kautsky, a characterization which was later fully verified.\nThe publication of the note formally signed by the whole institute has, however, another aim — to besmirch the person who created and headed the Marx-Engels Institute. This is how the note concludes: “The original letter was turned over to Riazanov by the well-known Menshevik Lydia Zederbaum-Dan as long ago as 1925. Riazanov had carefully concealed the letter.”\nDuring the Menshevik trial, Riazanov was publicly accused by the prosecutor of collaboration in the conspiracy against the dictatorship of the proletariat. A few months after this accusation, the whole world is now told of another crime committed by Riazanov. He had, it seems, into the bargain, concealed the quotation from Marx’s letter of 1881. Their need to advance such circumstances, all out of proportion to the first accusation, in order to strengthen their case against Comrade Riazanov shows that the Messrs. Accusers have an uneasy conscience. These people make their discoveries by adding rudeness to disloyalty, only to betray the fragility of their case.\nWe gave a hypothetical explanation at the time of how the accusation against Riazanov originated. Everything that has been written to us from Moscow about this fully confirms our suppositions. It is not difficult to reveal the mechanism of the supplementary accusation launched today by the same accusers under the pseudonym of the Marx-Engels Institute.\nThe “Menshevik Lydia Zederbaum” turned over Marx’s letter to Riazanov back in 1925. Why did she give it to him? As a token of Riazanov’s friendship with the Mensheviks and of their future collaboration in the conspiracy against the dictatorship of the proletariat? Not a word from the “institute” on this. The term “Menshevik” ought to shut the mouth of any who hesitate, especially since Riazanov “carefully concealed” the letter since 1925. Why did he conceal it? Obviously in order to safeguard the interests of Kautsky and world Menshevism. It is true that between 1925, when Riazanov entered into a conspiracy with the Mensheviks to conceal the historic document, and 1931, when he was involved in the conspiracy against the dictatorship of the proletariat, Riazanov published not a few documents and works which caused Menshevism considerable vexation. But to no avail. The readers of the Comintern press must be guided by the ancient formula of the devout: “I believe it no matter how absurd it is.”\nGood, the reader will say, but what are the facts about the letter? Is it authentic? Did Riazanov really hide it? And if he did, why? A look at the quotation is enough to prove the authenticity of the letter: Marx cannot be falsified, even by Yaroslavsky in collaboration with Yagoda. On the question of the “concealment” of the letter, we can, again, only propose a hypothesis, whose likelihood, however, is guaranteed a hundred percent by all the circumstances of the case.\nRiazanov could receive the letter only from those who had it. The management of the works of Engels had fallen into Bernstein’s hands by virtue of the same historical logic of the epigones which today permits Yaroslavsky to take charge of the works of Lenin. Riazanov displayed exceptional perseverance and ingenuity in gathering together the writings of Marx and Engels. Like the Lenin Institute, the Marx-Engels Institute bought numerous documents from the Mensheviks and through their intermediaries. For example, archives were bought by the Lenin Institute from Potresov. Without a doubt, the “Menshevik Lydia Zederbaum” did not simply turn over the letter to Riazanov but probably sold it to him as an intermediary for Bernstein or someone among the old men who had Marx’s letter. It is quite likely that with the sale of this letter, which draws a devastating picture of Kautsky, Bernstein or some other owner of the document from the same circle attached the condition that the letter not be published while Kautsky or the seller was alive. The rigorous manner in which Bernstein applied this kind of censorship over the correspondence of Marx and Engels is sufficiently well known. Comrade Riazanov had no alternative. In order to get possession of the letter, he was obliged to accept the condition imposed. Anyone else in his place would have done the same. Having accepted this condition, he naturally carried it out. Thanks to his extreme prudence and loyalty in all matters of this kind, Riazanov was able to secure from our adversaries precious material from the heritage of our classics.\nWe think it is now clear why Riazanov “concealed” the letter. Whoever knows Riazanov knows that he, more than anyone else, must have ached to publish his valuable find. But he waited for the proper moment to do it. By means of a raid, Marx’s letter was discovered in the possession of Riazanov. It was not only made public, thereby violating the agreement made by Riazanov, but it was then converted into proof against Riazanov. What should we call such a procedure? Let us call it by its right name: procedure à la Stalin.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In The village site changed with Time, I discussed “the most infamous cargo brought in by the crew of the ‘Argo’ – being the Asian cholera, which became known as the ‘wasting disease’ or lila balavu to the Fijians. I added that: “The lila balavu reached Dravuni, like it did in many parts of Fiji, and the results were devastating. Many people, of all ages, died. Mass graves were dug by those who escaped the epidemic. And they were not many.”\nThe epidemic was just the first in a long line of events that darkened the early period of the 1800s. The most historic and perhaps the most bizarre event that characterised that period was the visitation of a three-tailed comet from out of space and perhaps from outside our solar system.\nHistorians vary in their identification of the ‘Argo’ and the year it sailed to Fiji. Former USP Art Director, Mara Jevera Fulmer discussed this dilemma in her paper: ‘Visual Language: A 19th Century Comet in Fiji.’ Sir Basil Thomson (1908), for example, only referred to a ‘vessel’ named Argo that was wrecked on Bukatatanoa Reef in the Lau Group. Beauclerc (1911) referred to the ship as a ‘man-of-war’ but gave no nation of origin. Derrick (1946) referred to a ship named Argo which was said to have cleared Port Jackson (now Sydney) on September 1805. It was recorded as being a whaling ship with general cargo, registered in London. Wilkes (1845) referred to the Argo as an English brig that was lost on Bukatatanoa in 1806. Taylor (1982) gave this account: “a small American schooner called the Argo arrived on a private trading voyage and her cargo which included the inevitable supply of spirits, found a ready market” in what is now Sydney Harbour. That was in the year 1798.\nI have referred to these various dates in my post referred to above. I also added that other information available to me had put the actual date of the wreck of the Argo to January 1800.\nFrom various accounts, the three-tailed comet, was both a messenger underlying the significance of past events and also a harbinger of similar events yet to happen. Notwithstanding that, records still do not agree on the dates of this celestial phenomenon.\nThe earliest dates of the phenomenon came from Fulmer who connected the sighting of the comet to the death resulting from the wreck of the ‘Argo’; and that would put a date closer to 1800 rather than 1805. Sir Basil Thomson put it at November 21, 1805 and he even entertained the idea that the comet may have been ‘Encke’s comet’. However, he did not discount the idea that it may also have been ‘the famous comet of 1807’.\nThe Lake Afton Public Observatory in Wichita, Kansas provided information, but only as it relates to ‘great’ comets; and the likely dates given were September 1807, September 1811 and June 1819 (cited by Fulmer). This information did not refer to ‘Encke’s comet, implying that it was not a ‘great’ comet in the definition of the Observatory. Be that as it may, Encke’s comet was first recorded in 1786 and it has been appearing periodically having a 3.3 year cycle. If we project its periodicity forward, the comet was likely to have appeared in 1802 and 1805. These dates are supportive of Fulmer’s and Thomson’s claims.\nFurthermore, the Observatory did confirm “that a ‘three-tailed’ comet is quite a likely phenomenon due to the changing nature of comets in their orbits.” This three-tailed comet, according to Fulmer “appeared just before dawn after the first sign of light began to appear in the east…The central tail was the largest and shone with an appearance like the rainbows. The right and left tails were equal in size but smaller than the middle one, and their appearance was white. It was visible for 37 nights and was then lost sight of.” Beauclerc, writing in 1911, concluded that it must have been a very bright comet: a description that seems to align with that of Encke’s comet as given by Wikipedia: a comet that has “shortest period of a reasonably bright comet.”\nAs a messenger of past events, the comet reminded a lot of people of all the unusual events that were happening, starting with the lila balavu. There was also a total eclipse of the sun and this is dated 21 February 1803. Historians have also recorded incidents of a hurricane and a tidal wave during this period.\nAs a harbinger of major historical events, the comet was associated with the subsequent death of the third Vunivalu of Bau, Ratu Banuve Baleivavalagi who died in February 1803.\nEvents like the appearance of the three-tailed comet to early Fijians who were superstitious would have been of significance and to be recorded for oral tradition/traditional historicity. The means of recording would obviously vary from person to person or from one community to another. Some would have recorded it as lyrics of traditional chant or as ‘itukuni’ to relate to younger generation during traditional talanoa sessions. In Cakaudrove in Vanua Levu, the means of recording that traditional artists chose was in the design of their masi/masikesa, printed barkcloth.\nA masikesa from the 1840s or earlier, titled as ‘exploding star’ design (printed in a post card sent to Fulmer by Sagale Buadromo, Fiji Museum Director) showed a series of stars. A single star has its centre unpainted while many large points come out from the circumference of the black inner circle. The three ‘tails’ (in one instance, a fourth ‘tail’ appears) seem to come out from between the larger star points.\nThis blog demonstrates how historical events, especially those of cosmic and celestial significance, impact oral history. In this specific case, the choice of oral historians for a visual language representation is not lost to contemporary historians even though the authenticity of the dates of those events are part of the ongoing discussion.\n© Kaliopate Tavola and kaidravuni.com, 2018. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Kaliopate Tavola and kaidravuni.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "There has been a dynamic shift in the education sector due to the rise of e-learning.\nIt has been scientifically proven today, that sports have a direct impact on academic performance.\nAll good sportspersons know that a right education is always useful as a backup for their careers. It takes care of a person’s entire life and not just their career. Unfortunately, many students who are into sports remain deprived of higher school and college education. This could be due to factors such as:\n- weak economic background,\n- lack of transport facilities to travel from sports training grounds to college classes,\n- intense travel that makes them miss school attendance\nE-Learning Comes into Play\nThis is where the concept of online learning can prove to be extremely useful.The online education sector is already expected to reach a whopping, 1.96$ billion by 2021 in India (eight times more than what it is today) Therefore it is not difficult to understand how sports and academic career can be balanced by e-learning. It helps in the following ways –\n- Full Flexibility: Switching between sports practice and travelling for studies is no longer a matter of trouble with e-learning as players can now practice and study for any competitive exam. Students can interact on free social networking sites in India and get to cooperate in online studies. This also promotes values such as teamwork and coordination.\n- Time Management: All sports require strict discipline of time. By attempting online test papers or e-mock papers, students not just learn self-discipline, but time-management as well.\n- Relieve Stress – Very often the sports persons are so short of time that they are not able to plan their events properly. E-learning gives the facility that can help manage the daily quota of study. This further helps to reduce stress and makes learning online an adventurous thing as well.\n[ For e-mock papers with answer keys, click here ]\nWhy Sports Matter in Studies?\nNow many people might question the relevance of sports and studies. And, especially in India where sports education is still a dream. Here are some facts that prove that both these fields have a relation –\n- Through a study done on 5000 students, BBC has claimed that there is a success in English, mathematics and science exams as the students’ performance increase for every 17 minutes that boys exercise, and 12 minutes for girls.\n- A Harvard University Psychiatrist, named John Ratey has written in his book that the MRI scan photos of the brains of people who improve their fitness have increased volume in the hippocampus. The hippocampus is that part of the brain which is linked to memory and learning.\n- Even the IOC (International Olympic Committee) has now started giving online resources that tell students about managing sports and education and choosing the right place of learning.\n[Find copyright free photos for sports and motivational quotes, click here]\nStrike a Balance\n- For those students who have cleared their class 12th Board exams and are looking for college, they shouldn’t just look for sports facilities in the college. Rather seek options of institutions that take a holistic approach and give correct opportunities to grow a wide knowledge base so that it can build a long and interesting career.\n- Get a feel of the campus when you start selecting colleges. Don’t just check out the sports field or basketball court, but also do check out the classrooms and labs.\nSports offer a way to discover something that makes people passionate about for a lifetime and combined with proper education and e-learning, it can provide development of skills and cognitive abilities that supports the whole community.\nSource : https://sabakuch.com/blog/2017/06/13/e-learning-in-india-can-give-sports-academic-career-the-right-balance/", "label": "No"}
{"text": "You are the censor\nGiving the students some hands-on experience of what the BBFC does is a good way of getting pupils talking about this issue, as well as highlighting how subjective some of these judgements are.\nYou will need\nInternet access, DVD player, DVDs, BBFC guidelines\nHow to do this activity\nPut the students into groups and show them a selection of clips from a range of different genres. Ask them what age they think they are suitable for. Some interesting choices might be violence in cartoons/family blockbusters, also shocking images in documentary and the news.\nGood starting point films\n- The footage depicting the aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq in Fahrenheit 911\n- The 'torture' in The Incredibles\n- The Sandman could spark interesting discussions about classification in secondary schools.\nAnd to finish\nRepeat the exercise, giving the students copies of the BBFC Guidelines for each certificate - ask them to use the BBFC guidelines to judge what certificate the film 'should' receive. You can then reveal how close they are to the original certificate.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "So far the view has been superb. But at some point on the journey you're likely to pass into cloud. Clouds are divided by type [here stratocumulus mix with cumulus in the foreground, with cumulus beyond]. These correspond both to the height at which the cloud is located and the shape and density of the cloud. There are technically a great number of cloud types—around 52.\nThe original classification identified three families of clouds. These were cirrus (from the Latin of 'hair'—hence wispy, thin clouds), cumulus (meaning a 'heap' or 'pile' for obvious reasons), and stratus (meaning a 'layer' or 'sheet').\nThis early structuring was done in 1802 by a pharmacist and amateur meteorologist from London, Luke Howard, and picked up by the likes of landscape painter John Constable, who produced reams of cloud studies. Later, in 1896, the clouds were grouped into nine basic forms, each given a number from 1 to 9. This was later revised to include ten cloud forms—1 to 10. But the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the body responsible for the numbering, later changed the range again to be 0 to 9.\nThis final change of numbering was for a surprisingly romantic reason. The cloud type with the number 9 (which later briefly became 10) was the cumulonimbus. Although this is classified as a low cloud because its base starts well down, the peaks of a giant cumulonimbus climb higher than any other cloud. If you were perched on top of a cumulonimbus you could consider yourself on top of the world—and this is where the expression 'on cloud 9' comes from. The WMO realized they were being spoilsports turning a cloud 9 into a cloud 10, so they reversed their decision.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "i) Round 7.789 to 1 decimal place.\nii) Round 0.0595 to 2 significant figures.\ni) In 7.789, the cut-off digit (the 1st decimal place) is the second 7. The digit after this is an 8, meaning we round the 7, and get the answer: 7.8.\nii) In 0.0595, the cut-off digit (the 2nd significant figure) is the 9. The digit after this is a 5, meaning that we round the 9 up to 0, and add an extra 1 to the digit before the 9. Doing so, we get the answer: 0.060.(If you just got 0.06, this would only be 1 significant figure.)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Psychological effects of caffeine\n|Topics:||🍲 Food, Addiction, Anxiety Disorder, Pharmacy, 😱 Emotions|\nTable of Contents\nCaffeine is one of the commonly accepted and used drugs, while it is not identified as a powerful stimulant to the central nervous system, it causes a variety of psychological effect because of its drug-like chemical action. Caffeine first excites the central nervous system, but as the dose go up its impact go to the medulla, spinal cord and the cortex. The amounts of psychological effects that caffeine can cause are contingent on the concentration and the person. Caffeine intake should be reduced drastically in the case of children since they are more vulnerable to it effects.\nA caffeine intake of a mere 100 mg can cause symptoms like anxiety, dizziness, irritability and agitation, insomnia, headaches and restlessness in certain individuals. People who frequently use caffeine in the form of beverage, pills or food are less vulnerable to these symptoms when the concentrations are low; however, they face other caffeine-related issues. Caffeine has also been associated with increased alertness and fatigue reduction. Do the advantages of caffeine and its effect outweigh its disadvantages?\nAdverse Psychological Effects of Caffeine\nNegative Effects of Caffeine\nNegative effects of caffeine in the general population are connected to excessive intake. Exceedingly high doses of caffeine consumption might prompt a condition called ‘caffeinism.’ The condition’s signs comprise nervousness, anxiety, restlessness, excitement, among others that simulator a clinical situation called ‘mixed mood state’ (Smith 1243-1255). The bulk of caffeine effects appear to happen in sensitive people. In this case, psychiatric patients make most of the members of this segment. For example, panic disorder patients and widespread panic disorder. Comparable conclusions have been drawn with patients suffering from performance social disorder. Increased caffeine uptake has also been associated with intrusion on manic-type episodes and bipolar disorder recovery.\nYoung consumers also fall under the category of another potentially sensitive subgroup, and some psychiatric indications appear to happen at a distressing frequency in this segment. For instance, the occurrence of the key depressive disorder is acknowledged to vary from 0.4% to 8%, with roughly 30% recording a minimum of one present sign of major depressive incident. Researchers also show that coffee consumption in middle and high school learners will result in high depressive symptoms that can be directly linked to caffeine intake. Caffeine adverse effects on children Depression Inventory have been documented in both adolescents and children. However, some studies have not been as conclusive.\nDependence and Tolerance\nExcessive caffeine intake might result in mild physical dependence. Evidently, individuals who consume at least 100 mg of caffeine daily may get a bodily craving that could generate withdrawal signs that comprise, muscle pain and stiffness, headaches, nausea, lethargy, marked irritability, vomiting, and depressed mood. A lot of scholars are of the opinion that caffeine withdrawal ought to be categorized as a psychological disorder. Caffeine withdrawal has been known to start within a day of stopping the consumption and can last more than a week. Sustained intake of caffeine prompts the body to produce more adenosine receptors in the central nervous system (Winston 432-439).\nThe condition, amplifies adenosine effects to the central nervous system, by reducing caffeine’s stimulating effects by improving tolerance and enhance the symptoms of caffeine withdrawal because the effects of adenosine will more mark after the stoppage of caffeine intake. Unfortunately, tolerance to caffeine grows very fast. For instance, sleep disturbance effects of caffeine are noticed after ingesting 400 mg of caffeine three times a day for a week, while total tolerance is witnessed after ingestion of three hundred mg, three times daily for eighteen days.\nCaffeine and Pregnancy\nRecent studies indicate that ingesting over three hundred milligrams of caffeine daily will enhance ones’ odds of a miscarriage. Studies done on animals’ reveal that high level of caffeine have been linked to preterm delivery, congenital disabilities, low birth weight and reduced fertility. Children whose mother consumes over five hundred milligrams of caffeine have been observed to have faster breathing and heart rates in the initial days after birth (Kuczkowsk 695). Although different studies continue to bring up mixed findings, it is certain that caffeine has a powerful effect that may ultimately affect and confound pregnancy. Caffeine is also known to cause headaches, high metabolism, dehydration, and heartburns all which can impact on the baby’s development. Again, as the pregnancy course evolves, the slower women’s bodies break down caffeine, causing a greater and lengthier contact of caffeine on the baby.\nPositive Psychological Effects of Caffeine\nPerformance and Mood Effects of Caffeine\nStudies of the impacts of caffeine on behavior and mood show that modest levels of caffeine ingestion have constructive effects on some kinds of performance and mood and certain individual consumers of caffeine can self-regulate intake to exploit the positive effects and reduce the negative ones. Studies have shown that caffeine produces a positive effect on fatigue reduction and alertness. Caffeine also leads to enhanced performance on a chore that needs a continued reaction and on observance tasks (James 1-8). However, caffeine effects on complicated jobs are harder to evaluate partly because the results have a likelihood of being a collaboration of caffeine and other factors like time of day and personality.\nIt is noteworthy to appreciate that caffeine withdrawal has scanty of no impact on performance apart from it having a negative effect on the mood. For the individual that can regulate their intake of caffeine, regular consumption looks to be beneficial, since it leads to better mental functioning. Caffeine continues to be explored as a likely treatment for hyperkinetic children because central nervous system stimulating substances have been shown to be effective in this condition. However, most results from various studies continue to come up with conflicting findings. While certain studies claim that that the findings point to beneficial effects with little side effects, others hold that there is scant if any benefit.\nCaffeine’s impact on the body, psychology, and mind is real. Though there are certain advantages of caffeine consumption, it is limited to self-regulated use. However, the definition of self-regulation and the safe dose remain vague, and one cannot know the threshold. It is true that caffeine in high doses is a potent drug that can inflict an array of illnesses that include mental illnesses and disorders. From these findings, caffeine abuse in more common than previously thought. The finding ought to be brought to the medical community and the public attention for everyone to be informed of the danger that one encounters when they subject themselves to caffeine. Caffeine is particularly dangerous to pregnant women because it not only affects the woman but the fetus as well. The psychological disadvantages of taking caffeine outweigh its benefits.\n- James, Jack E., and Peter J. Rogers. “Effects of caffeine on performance and mood: withdrawal reversal is the most plausible explanation.” Psychopharmacology 182.1 (2005): 1-8.\n- Kuczkowski, Krzysztof M. “Caffeine in pregnancy.” Archives of gynecology and obstetrics 280.5 (2009): 695.\n- Smith, Andrew. “Effects of caffeine on human behavior.” Food and chemical toxicology 40.9 (2002): 1243-1255.\n- Winston, Anthony P., Elizabeth Hardwick, and Neema Jaberi. “Neuropsychiatric effects of caffeine.” Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 11.6 (2005): 432-439.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Neglected people, unseen diseases\nMost of us cannot imagine that there are hidden diseases that affect billions of the world’s population that have been neglected for so many years. Nevertheless, as hard as this may be to believe, this is indeed the case with neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).\nNTD is a group of diseases most commonly found among the 2.7 billion people in the world who live on US$2 per day. More than 1 b...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How to easily measure foods so you eat the right size serving\nMeasuring your food\nTo make sure your food servings are the right size, you can use\n- measuring cups\n- measuring spoons\n- a food scale\nOr you can use the guide below. Also, the Nutrition Facts label on food packages tells you how much of that food is in one serving.\nGuide to sensible serving sizes\nThis much is the same as a serving size.\n3 ounces =\n- 1 serving of meat, chicken, turkey, or fish\n- 1 serving of cooked vegetables\n- 1 serving of salads\n- 1 serving of casseroles or stews, such as chili with beans\n- 1 serving of milk", "label": "No"}
{"text": "K. Kamaraj did his schooling from Nayanar Vidyalaya and after which, he enrolled at Kshatriya Vidyalaya which used to provide the high school at that point of time. In just one year of his enrollment at Kshatriya Vidyalaya his father died and since there was no other earning member in the house, her mother sold all her jewelry and on the interest of the money earned their family sustained their livelihood.\nSince he wasn’t a bright student, he decided to drop out from the school at the age of 12. He then started working in his maternal uncle’s cloth shop. He was touched by the Jallianwala Baug massacre and decided to join India’s struggle movement for freedom. Simultaneously while working in his uncle’s shop, he used to take time out and participate in processions and public meetings. By the age of 16, he became a full-time worker of Congress. He actively took part in Dandi march the movement led by C. Rajagopalachari. For opposing British rule, he was sent to jail many times.\nLooking at his work, he was appointed as the General Secretary of Congress Committee by his political guru and mentor S. Satyamurthi. He was elected as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in 1954. During his term as chief minister, he distributed school uniforms at free of cost to avoid class distinction and he also opened up numerous schools for underprivileged section of the society. It was he who introduced free midday meal which benefitted lakhs of students and also made education compulsory and frees up to XI standard.\nIt was during his term as a chief minister that dams such as Aliyar Dam, Vaikai Dam, Manimuthar Dam, Krishnagiri Dam and Sathanur Dam were constructed in record time. He served as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for three successive terms from 1954 to 1963.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Finances are often seen as an unpleasant part of life. Use this understanding to improve your life, remove the stress created by money problems and enjoy an improved credit rating. You can learn methods to handle finances better in order to save money.\nNever sell when you aren’t ready. If you own stocks that are earning fair sums of money, leave them be. You can certainly take a second look at stocks that are underperforming and think about moving some of those around.\nTo save money on food in foreign countries, try to eat like a local. You will want to eat at local restaurants, instead of in overpriced tourists areas and hotels. The food in local restaurants will taste better and cost less too.\nLarge fees should be a sign for you to stay away. Brokers that deal with long term investments charge fees for using their services. These fees play a huge role when it comes to your earnings. Do not use brokers who take big commissions, and stay away from funds with high management costs.\nYour bank probably offers some kind of automatic savings service which you should look into. This typically involves setting up an automatic transfer from checking into savings every month. This is a great technique which forces you to put aside a little bit of money each month. This technique can also be helpful for accruing money for expensive events, such as a wedding.\nSolid plans make for solid finances. Doing this sort of planning motivates you to follow through with your plan and reduces the chance that you’ll spend frivolously.\nYou should now know why it’s better to save and how to deal with miscellaneous expenses after going over this article. Don’t worry if it is a long process to improve your finances. Just like losing weight, success doesn’t come overnight. Just stay with your plan and things will change eventually.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Uniform Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Examination is developed by the AICPA with significant input and assistance by NASBA and state boards of accountancy. It is designed to assess the knowledge and skills entry-level CPAs need to practice public accountancy.\nThe CPA Exam is one of the “Three Es” (Education, Examination and Experience), that is required for licensure as a CPA in the U.S. The successful completion of the Uniform CPA Exam is a requirement in all 55 jurisdictions; where Education and Experience requirements may vary for each state or jurisdiction. Many jurisdictions also require an additional exam in ethics in order to obtain a license (sometimes referred to as the fourth “E”).\nNOTE: The CPA license is the only license for accounting professionals and is issued by state boards of accountancy in the 55 jurisdictions (There is not a national CPA license).\nThe CPA Exam is a 16-hour, computer-based test comprised of four sections:\n- Auditing and Attestation (AUD)\n- Business Environment and Concepts (BEC)\n- Financial Accounting and Reporting (FAR)\n- Regulation (REG)\nThe CPA exam employs a combination of question formats. It includes the traditional multiple choice questions and essays, as well as highly innovative simulations – questions that replicate workplace situations and require the application of knowledge and skills to arrive at solutions.\nHistory of the Uniform CPA Examination\nIn its nearly 100-year history, the Uniform CPA Examination has undergone many changes. Until the end of 2003, it was a paper-and-pencil exam administered twice each year. In April 2004, the computer-based CPA exam was launched and the paper-and-pencil exam was discontinued. The computer-based CPA exam achieved its one millionth administration in 2009.\nToday the Uniform CPA exam is a state-of-the-art licensure examination – technologically advanced and psychometrically sound.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Shri Jasnath Asan, Rajasthan, India\nPhoto © Shri Jasnath Asan, 2016\n25 NOV 2016\nOn our trip to Guda Bishnoiyan we were lucky enough to see a small herd of blackbuck near a grassy pond. The near threatened, blackbuck also known as the Indian antelope, is an antelope found in India and Nepal. The males have long, ringed horns, 35–75 centimeters long and beautiful white fur on the chin and around the eyes that is in sharp contrast with the black stripes on his face, back and the outside of his legs. In contrast females and juveniles are usually hornless and a pale yellowish fawn to tan in color.\nBuilt to run on the open plains, blackbuck can reach velocities of up to 90kms per hour with strides up to 6m long and leaps up to 2m in height, making them one of the fastest animals on earth, only surpassed by the African cheetah. They are the quickest species left on the Indian subcontinent now that the Asiatic Cheetah, once in India, is extinct. Their agility, lightning speed, and high leaps protects the adults against most predators, but does not ensure their survival.\nThe conservation story is unfortunately a familiar one. Formerly a widespread species, only small scattered herds are seen today and are largely confined to protected areas. During the 20th century, blackbuck numbers declined sharply due to excessive hunting, poaching, deforestation as well as habitat degradation and fragmentation. One of the most powerful activist voices for the protection of the Blackbuck comes from the fervently conservationist Bisnoi communities in the region. Shri Jasnath Asan also is working diligently as well to protect and restore blackbuck habitat through their revegetation efforts at Karmlai.\nThese antelopes have earned a place of sacred respect in Hindu culture and hold a honored place as a heraldry symbol of several princely states of India.\n25 NOV 2016\nWe headed southwest of Jodhpur south toward the Guda Bishnoiyan, in search of demoiselle cranes. Stopping at a beautiful pond at dawn we found them, hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of cranes flying in the rising golden dawn. There a few things in this world more powerful or beautiful then watching, and listening, to wave after wave, after wave of cranes gracing the morning skies.\nThough the demosielle is the smallest crane, they still are a large bird. The demoiselle is 85–100 cm long, 76 cm tall, and has a whopping 55–180 cm wingspan. They can live in a variety of environments, including desert areas and numerous types of grasslands, but are often within a few hundred meters of a stream or lake.\nThis species of crane is found in most of central Eurasia, from the Black Sea to Mongolia and North Eastern China with an additional small population in Turkey. These migratory cranes spend their winters in the more hospital climes of the south. Birds from western Eurasia will spend the winter in Africa while the birds from Asia, Mongolia and China will spend the winter here, in northwestern India.\nI first met this species on a trip to Mongolia a few years ago. There on the high Mongolian steppe, in grassy marsh area, I saw a pair of cranes with two newly hatched, fragile, long-legged chicks following their parents through the marsh. These little ones had only a few months to feed, grow, and learn under the watchful eye of their parents. During the long days of the Mongolian spring and summer, they would gain their strength and prepare for one of the toughest migrations in the world.\nIn late August through September the cranes I saw in Mongolia would have gathered in flocks of up to 400 individuals and prepare for their migratory flight to their winter range. During their arduous flight south they had to cross the Himalayan mountains, often flying at altitudes of 4,900–7,900 meters (16,000–26,000 feet), to get to their wintering grounds in India. There they overwinter and prepare for their spring journey, in March and April, back to their northern nesting grounds.\nIt’s hard to imagine that those little tiny fuzzy new lives I saw in Mongolia, actually could be the same demoiselle cranes I saw today. Perhaps those chicks I saw are now parents and are leading their offspring in their first long migration to India and arrived in time for me to greet them at Guda Bishnoiyan.\nMehringarth Fort, Photo © Kaushal Tarikh\nHow do I describe the indescribable?\nRudyard Kipling described it as:\n\"A Palace that might have been built by Titans and colored by the morning sun.\"\nJacqueline Kennedy Onassis said upon visiting it:\n\"I have just seen the eighth wonder of the world.\"\nPicture a fort.\nIt's not just any run of the mill fort to be sure. It was a fort built in 1460 AD by Rao Jodha and is one of the largest forts in India, rising 125 meters (410 feet) above Jodhpur. Enclosed by rough stone walls, the fort still shows the imprints of cannonball hits by attacking armies of Jaipur on it’s Dedh Kamgra Pol gate. It's breathtaking.\nMehrangarh Fort is a massive fort located at the center of Jodhpur and spreading over 5 square kilometers on top of a high hill that rises from the center of the city. Its imposing walls, are up to 36 meters high and 21 meters thick. The palaces above are placed in the heart of the fort, secured by many levels of gates and walls.\nThe building materials were chiseled from the rock on which the fort stands so the structure merges with its rocky base and gives the appearance of haven risen up from the stone. Still run by the Jodhpur royal family, Mehrangarh is packed with history and legend, far too much to get across in a short blog post. To learn more visit : http://www.mehrangarh.org/\n20 NOV 2016\nOne of my favorite people here is Ramuji Saran. As his bio on http://shrijasnathasan.org/our-team/ notes, he is ”a celebrated army veteran who has made the ashram the home of his Seva worship, Ramuji contributes dance to our nightly puja, takes care of both green yards as well as the vegetable garden. He is also responsible for serving guruji and his guests’ meals, and lovingly cares for the ashram’s animal inhabitants.”\nRamuji’s impressive vegetable garden supplies much of the fresh fruit and vegetable that we enjoy each day. Anything food served but not grown here is still local ingredients, from environmentally sustainable sources. Imagine having fresh organic vegetarian meals with all the veggies picked fresh daily, often only hours before it ends up on your plate. The incredible food will be discussed another time when I introduce you to another favorite person, Papu Sai, our amazing cook.\nThe garden is organic with no GMO or pesticides in sight. Instead of pesticides, our gardener mixes milkweed sap and cow urine together and lets it ferment in a large pot. Once applied, usually at the base of a plant or occasionally sprinkled on the leaves, no bug goes near it .. I were a bug I wouldn’t approach it.\nThe garden Ramuji cares for is large and soon to be larger. Walking through the garden in the early morning you often glimpse a pesky peacock sneaking in to sample the tender crops. The variety of vegetables and herbs is not found in your usual “garden variety” garden. He not only tends many things Americans would be familiar with; cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, cauliflower, American Lettuce, tomatoes, green onions, squash, mint, potatoes, sweet potatoes, beets, wheat grass, okra (but not prepared like any okra I’ve had in the states-its excellent), lemon tree, and American radish.\nBut Ramuji also cares for a few things not normally found in our North American gardens. There are a couple of coconut trees, tulsi (Indian Holy Bush – like a basil), ashwaganda (a plant used in healing), Indian eggplant (small, flavorful, and not seedy like our American eggplant), aloe (used both to eat and for skincare and healing), mooly (Indian radish - looks like a white carrot), Echinacea (marigolds – nice touch in salads), Sunflowers (both for seeds and extremely high protein sprouts), chilies either cooked while green or dried and used as a very hot spice), loki and tordu (both in the zucchini family), and a few pomegranate trees. In addition, there is a large off site orchard with many trees including 600 date palms, pomegranates, lemons, limes, apple, and much more.\nIf that were not enough Ramuji must also manage the garden to ensure he has seeds enough for the next crop.\nRamuji is my hero.\n19 NOV 2016\nNative to India, the peacock is unmistakable and unforgettable. More correctly, a peacock is a male peafowl and the female peafowl is called a peahen. Sure enough the cute little chicks are called peachicks, not to be confused with chick peas. A group of peafowls is known, depending on your source, as either a muster, pride, or ostentation. I personally think the term an “ostentation” is most befitting such a fabulous bird.\nThe female peafowl, the peahen, has dull coloration to help her blend into to her surrounding but the peacock is definitely on the ostentatious, flamboyant side and will not go unnoticed in a crowd of pigeons. Shimmering iridescent blue head and neck, scallops of iridescent green down their back, and then there are those magnificent, intricate, several foot long, tail coverts that cover an ordinary non-descript tail.\nThe adult male is definitely a flashy dresser, with some amazing courtship moves as well. When he really wants to impress a peahen, he props up the train of tail coverts with his shorter, stiffer tail feathers and unfolds it like a fan, into a broad semicircle 1.8 to 2.1 meters wide. There is a legend that says that the peacock’s creator gave it a horrible voice, lest its beauty make the bird overly conceited. Peafowl have 11 different calls, but the peacocks are the ones that really yell an ear splitting, teeth rattling “may-AWE, may-AWE, that can travel for incredibly long distances.\nOnly down side to all their glory is that they fly like a cinder block. Though heavy bodied, they can and do fly, but not with the glorious grace of an eagle. They jump from their perch and flutter or soar short distances to the ground, land with a thud, and run for safety. It seems like the energy expenditure of flying is not undertaken lightly and is definitely left for those “must get up into or down from a tree” or “must escape” scenarios.\n15 NOV 2016\nEach morning that I am not traveling I walk the ashram grounds. Out back, behind the palace, is 350 natural acres that is alive with birds. Every day I see new species or observe and amazing behavior. It is never dull … far from it. I know I am privileged. My job here is to discover the beauty and diversity of the natural world and share it with others through my images. I strive to reconnect and strengthen the connection between people and the natural world.\nThe green bee-eaters were in full force today. In the open country of the back acreage it seemed like every tree had one and each bird was systematically zooming out to catch insects, especially bees and wasps, then returning to their post.\nOnce back on their perch they smack the bee senseless on their branch, but it is more than just tenderizing or rendering the insect unconscious. The violent repeated expert thrashing of the bee or wasp on the perch actually removes the stinger and venom as well as breaking down the exoskeleton, thus rendering it a tasty morsel fit for consumption. Once the meal is properly prepared, the bee-eater then gulps it down whole. Without a moment of rest, it then immediately he starts scanning the air for another meal. They seem to have an insatiable appetite…much like a human teenager.\nToday was the first time I saw purple sunbirds here. This nectar-sipping old world equivalent to hummingbirds is a mere 10 cm in size, delicate and graceful in both motion, form and coloration. This male sunbird was in eclipse plumage, looking much like a female would with yellow breast and dark upperparts but revealed his sex with a bold, broad black stripe down the center of the throat and breast. In breeding plumage, the male looks much different. His plumage is a stunning electric metallic blue-green-purple, almost black, throughout.\n13 NOV 2016\nThe next morning after the infamous camel trek and Mamoo encounter, I had the privilege of visiting Shri Osiya Mataji. It was an amazing temple that dates back to the 12th century and has been in use ever since. For the past couple of days I was traveling with a small group of reflexologists from all over the world that are staying, working, and generously giving of their time at the ashram for 2 weeks. All of us were enthralled with the history and stunning beauty of the place.\nI have included a quote from the temples webpage about the history and significance of the site. It’s no surprise they can explain it far better than I. This is their living history. For more information, go to http://www.shriosiyamataji.org/\nFROM THE SHRI OSIYA MATAJI WEBSITE:\n“A pilgrimage to the Holy Temple of Shri Osiya Mataji is the holiest pilgrimage for Oswals. It is said that Osiya is the beginning place for Oswals and Shri Osiya Mataji is kuldevi (lineage goddess) of Oswals. Shri Osiya Mataji resides in a temple located in Osiya near Jodhpur, Rajasthan. This temple is on a mountain. Several thousand of devotees visit Osiya for darshan, mannat, etc throughout the year. Oswals come here especially to give Jat (Jay-ti or Jwar) and Mundan. The volume of devotees is increasing day by day.\nThe temple was originally built in the 8th century. However, the temple complex that now stands dates back to the 12th century. The main temple, along with the other two temples - the Chandi Ka Mandir and the Amba Mata Mandir, was constructed around circa 1178.\nTo enter the Sachchiyay Mata temple complex, one can use a series of magnificently sculpted arches. The temple complex was built in several phases, rather than in one go. Inside are beautiful images and sculptures of Hindu deities. Located at the north-end of the complex is a sculpture of Varaha (boar incarnation of Lord Vishnu). And to the east is an image of Lord Vishnu with Goddess Lakshmi. Lying to the west is a stone slab coming out of the walls, full of\nThe latest additions to the temple were carried on in the 12th century. Since then the temple has remained unchanged. The temple is a beauty of architecture. It is an architectural splendor that can be compared to any other throughout India.”\n16 NOV 2016\nNote: I know spell check is supposed to be helpful and a useful tool of civilization but it kept correcting Owlet to Omelette. Go figure ...\nI have seen more cute today than I can bear.\nHad the pleasure of meeting a spotted owlet this morning during my morning walk behind the ashram. Up in the branches of a tree, standing at an unbelievably cute and diminutive, 21 centimeters, was the owelette. Through sheer abundance of quirk and character, this owl may surpass the hoopoe as my favorite Indian bird. This species is nocturnal but is sometimes seen in the day. When I disturbed it from its daytime site, he bobbed its head dramatically and furiously as a dashboard bobble-head doll on a washboard road. After that impressive feat it challenged me to a staring contest which it lost when it fell asleep during the competition. I loved it.\nThe tiny owl hunts a variety of insects and small vertebrates. In Pakistan they have been found to take mostly insect prey where around Jodhpur they favor mice. Here they take small rodents, bats, toads, large insects, and small snakes.\nThey nest in cavities often competing with other hole-nesters such as mynas and parakeets. Nesting season is just starting in Rajasthan and is generally November to April so I will be on the lookout for nesting owlettes and tiny bobble-head babies.\n12 NOV 2016 - Part II\nWhile atop my trusty Mamoo I was ever the observant naturalist. As we marched and swayed our way across the sandy soil I looked down and everywhere in the sandy sail near small bunch grasses and shrubs were the dimples and divots of the ant lion's bizarre little traps.\nAnt lions are found around the world and most commonly occur in dry sandy habitats where the larvae can construct their ingenious traps. The antlion larva is a ferocious-looking animal with a robust body, huge abdomen, and a thorax bearing six walking legs. They have a flattened head with an enormous pair of sickle-like jaws with several sharp, hollow projections that fit perfectly with the lower mandible forming an enclosed canal for injecting venom to immobilize the victim, and enzymes to digest its victim’s soft parts. If that wasn’t enough, the larva is covered by forward-pointing bristles which help it to anchor itself in the loose soil and thus giving it great traction and enabling it to capture prey considerably larger than itself.\nI’m just glad they are only about a centimeter or less in size. I would die of fright if I even saw one even the size of a house cat.\nTHE INGENIOUS TRAP\nSince the steep sides of the pit consist of loose sand it affords an insecure foothold to any unfortunate small insect that happens to fall in. Slipping to the bottom, the prey is immediately seized by the lurking antlion. If the hapless insect attempts an escape up the pit walls, the ant lion throws sand at it from the bottom of the pit or undermines the sides of the pit, causing them to collapse and deliver the prey to the antlion.\nThe adult are dramatically different from the larvae and instead look much like a delicate lacewing or small damselfly.\nYou don’t have to come to India to see ant lions, take a walk in Red Rock canyon or any sandy arid region in the desert southwest, where there is very fine dry soils. Chances are you will find numerous pit traps of these fierce little predators dimpling the sandy soil.\n1. Why are ant lions also called doodlebugs?\n2.Get online and find photos of the larvae and the adults.\n3. When you are on your field trips try and find an ant lion trap.\n12 NOV 2016\nCAMEL TREK 101\nI am convinced that the camels is an animal made up from scrap and spare parts.\nThe camel's startlingly efficient big round feet are like big flexible dinner plates are perfect to walk across sand without sinking in. Long legs keep them away from the worst of the heat radiating from the desert sand, and the large single hump is a great place for storage of fat which, when needed, they can metabolize to produce water. Their not-to-be-forgotten face expresses a distinct, quirky personality, somewhere between fiercely frightening and bizarrely humorous.\nThe bad attitudes of camels have been exaggerated. I saw less spitting, biting and/or meanness from our camels then I saw in the presidential election we just survived. It is a proven fact that the IQ of camels also exceeded the majority of our candidates. (end of political commentary)\nTo ride a camel is an experience somewhere between fun and terror, with the terror part occurring mostly when they stand up or sit down. When I met my trusty steed, \"Mamoo\" the camel, and he eyed me with much suspicion and distrust. The apple I brought him overcame both. The camel was seated so I easily crawled aboard. He was given the order to rise. On the way up I had a swaying, lurching ride, then suddenly I found myself 12 feet above the ground.\nMy camel, for some unknown camel reason, kept stomping his front feet at random intervals, which seemed to be somewhat correlated to the appearance of pesky flies, and somewhat just camel weirdness. This unexpected stomping created an unnerving random abrupt swaying in 6 directions, plus if that weren’t enough, my dear Mamoo just kept sitting down on the job which gave me the huge opportunity to practice my skills of camera and water bottles juggling while hanging on for dear life during these up and down rides of 12 feet. My camel driver seemed to be amused … actually so was I. Not sure about the Mamoo.\nAbout sitting down … Returning to terra firma is the same awkward process of standing up but in reverse. On the way down to the ground to sit, the front legs fold in first and suddenly I was leaning as far back on the camel as I could to counter balance the animals precipitous, butt high, 70 degree angle until the ungainly hind legs started folding in. Once both sets of legs were tucked in I was again safe and sound back on the ground and could hop off. My stomach joined me soon after. It all felt like a semi controlled car crash.\nOur camel caravan wandered through the dunes for some 3 hours before we reached the tent camp Osiyan Camel Camp at sunset. The term “tent camp” doesn’t do it justice. It is a permanent camp with canvas tents, slab floors, electricity, and private bathrooms complete with hot and cold running water. No suffering going on here.\nNext up was a beautiful night of traditional dancing, music, and dinner under the Indian sky.\nThe big bright moon was two days from full. It couldn’t be more perfect.\nPanchla Siddha, India\nSharon K. Schafer\nI paint, photograph, and speak about wild places in an act of reciprocity that is as vital to me as heartbeat or breath.\nMy interest in the magic and mystery of the natural world lies at the intersection of art and science.\nMade possible through\nthe generosity of\nGenerous support and inspiration provided by\nShri Jasnath Asan", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Obtaining a student loan is often a helpful way to help pay for college. Still, you must remember that loans are not simply given to you with no strings attached. You must pay it back. This article will detail how to deal with your debt responsibly.\nMake sure you keep track of your loans. You should know who the lender is, what the balance is, and what its repayment options are. If you are missing this information, you can contact your lender or check the NSLDL website. If you have private loans that lack records, contact your school.\nStudent Loans Mastering This Topic\nWhen it comes to student loans, make sure you only borrow what you need. Consider the amount you need by taking a look at your total expenses. Factor in items like the cost of living, the cost of college, your financial aid awards, your family’s contributions, etc. You’re not required to accept a loan’s entire amount.\nKnow your grace periods so you don’t miss your first student loan payments after graduating college. Stafford loans typically give you six months before starting payments, but Perkins loans might go nine. Private loans are going to have repayment grace periods of their own choosing, so read the fine print for each particular loan.\nIt is important for you to keep track of all of the pertinent loan information. The name of the lender, the full amount of the loan and the repayment schedule should become second nature to you. This will help keep you organized and prompt with all of the payments you make.\nConsider using your field of work as a means of having your loans forgiven. A number of nonprofit professions have the federal benefit of student loan forgiveness after a certain number of years served in the field. Many states also have more local programs. The pay might be less in these fields, but the freedom from student loan payments makes up for that in many cases.\nThis article will help you to gain a better understanding of student loans. It’s tough to find the best deals out there, but it’s definitely possible. Remember these tips, take your time, and do the proper research.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This activityAn activity is any part of a lesson which involves students … More is based on an idea from Pronunciation Games by Mark Hancock which is a great resource for pronunciation activities. In this simple game, students have to listen to a word and decide which of two phonemes is being used.\nPRE: Before the lesson, decide upon a pair of phonemes students commonly confuse (e.g. /b/and /p/ for Arabic speakers, /ɪ/ and /i:/ for Russians, etc.). Find or make a list of minimal pairs with these sounds, such as the lists found here. It is a good idea to use words which will be known to students at their level. For this explanation I will use the sounds /b/ and /p/.\n1: Check students can distinguish the two sounds. If they can’t, this activityAn activity is any part of a lesson which involves students … More will not work. One way to check is to line students up in the middle of the classroom. Tell students to step left if they hear /b/, and right if they hear /p/. Say words from your list of minimal pairs (e.g. park) and check students move accordingly (students do not need to be 100% accurate at this stage).\nBefore saying the words it is a good idea (and often humourous) to check students know their left and right. Students may also find it helpful if the minimal pairs are displayed (i.e. on the board).\n2: Show students the handout, tell them to find number one and put their finger on it. Give out the handout and check students have followed the instruction. Tell students if they hear /b/ to move their finger left to number two, but if they hear /p/ to move their finger right to number two. Say a word from your list, e.g. bin, and check students have moved. Repeat this step from number two to number three. Continue until students have reached one final option.\n3: Repeat, but this time do not stop to check. After four words, check whether students arrived at the same option. If students are struggling, make your pronunciation as clear as possible, over-enunciating if necessary. Repeat several times. Students should make some improvement during this phase, with almost all students getting to the correct option each time.\n4: Hand over to the students in pairs or small groups with one student saying the words while the others follow. Give students a number of turns they should take to ensure they practise several times. At this point you should monitor to check students are producing the sounds accurately.\nT: bark… Ben… pen… ball. What did you get?\nS1: Ice cream\nS2: Ice cream\nS3: Umm… ham?\n1: If space does not allow for students to line up, you can still use the activityAn activity is any part of a lesson which involves students … More in step 1 by telling students to raise their left hand for /b/ and the right for /p/. Alternatively you could tell them to stand for /b/ and sit for /p/. The important thing is to check that students have heard the difference, and these activities give a clear, visual indication.\n2: This activityAn activity is any part of a lesson which involves students … More can be made to involve vocabulary from any lexical set, although there will need to be 32 options. If students have sufficient vocabulary they could come up with their own set.\nThe list of minimal pairs used in this game can very easily be used to play bingo.\nAs this is largely a receptive activityAn activity is any part of a lesson which involves students … More, it is students will need productive pronunciation practice afterwards. This can be done by challenging students to make sentences with the words so that they can play a number of games such as broken telephone/Chinese whispers.\nExample Minimal Pairs with /b/ and /p/:\nbin, pin, Ben, pen, ball, Paul, (James) Bond, pond, Bill, pill, bark, park, bull, pull, boy, poi, beach, peach, black, plaque, bad, pad, bile, pile, breach, preach, blume, plume, bray, pray, brawn, prawn", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Constantly reapplying sunscreen during a relaxing beach day is a tedious task that many people dread. Fortunately, scientists have been looking into developing a DNA-based sunscreen that will not only protect your skin, but also become more effective the longer it is worn.\nHow it works:\nStudies have shown that excessive exposure to UV light can damage DNA. So, as Guy German expressed in a statement, he and his team thought, “let’s flip it. What happens instead if we actually used DNA as a sacrificial layer? So instead of damaging DNA within the skin, we damage a layer on top of the skin.”\nEssentially, they took DNA from salmon sperm, a readily available source, and dried it into a film on a piece of glass. This process is similar to the way glue dries and becomes a thin film either on your fingers or a different surface. Once completed, this DNA film was exposed to UVA and UVB rays and was shown to reduce transmittance of UVB light by up to 90% and UVA light by up to 20%.\nEven more astounding though, this DNA film becomes more light-resistant the longer it is exposed to light. The research team is not entirely sure why this happens, however, they have theorized, as German says, that there are “two possible mechanisms… one is called hypochromicity, that is the increased ability of DNA molecules to absorb UV light, but also we found that the results that we got suggest a crosslinking density of the cells themselves.” A denser crystalline structure of the film would then be better suited to absorb or reflect more light.\nWhere it stands:\nTo clarify, this DNA film tested is not actual sunscreen yet and you will not be able to find it on shelves. However, it may well be part of the future of a more effective sunscreen, as opposed to the current, chemical-filled sunscreen that needs many reapplications throughout the day.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Warm Up: Eco Poster Examples (15 min)\nLook at the example poster gallery below and answer the questions on the form.\nProject: Make your own Eco Awareness Poster (20 min)\nAfter looking at the examples design and create your own poster. Try and make it simple and easy to understand. Try and think of a specific aspect of saving the planet and work with that. Use the organization from your homework last night for inspiration.\nTime to Share (10 min)\nUse the last 10 minutes of class to share your poster. Hold it up and see if the class can guess what the meaning of it is. If they can you've done a great job.\nNo Homework Tonight", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Butterflies need salt for breeding. By sipping moisture from mud puddles, butterflies take in salts and minerals from the soil. ~ Create a salt lick in your garden and increase the butterfly population. How-to's and links included.\nLike the idea of the green house over raised bed. Prolong season, start seed, protection from weather, ease of access as oppposed to diy hoop house? Think of the money you could save with your own green house.\nThe secret to growing the healthiest most beautiful plants is right in your backyard! Feed your soil! From Elizabeth Murphy, author of the book, Building Soil: A Down-to-Earth Approach: Natural Solutions for Better Gardens & Yards.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "For those of you who are not up on Ohio history, Worthington was not only a prominent Ohio politico in its formative years, serving as Senator from 1803 to 1807 and again in 1810-14 as well as the 6th Governor from 1814 to 1818. He was scion of a Virginia planter family, who married into some money and moved his family to the free state of Ohio (manumitting his slaves in the process). Worthington made his fortune investing in land in Ohio, alongside such other real estate moguls as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Duncan McArthur (another Ohio kingpin who later became governor). Adena was the seat of a vast empire of tenant farmers along the Paint River near Chillicothe. Like the Tidewater plantations, it was a world onto itself, producing agricultural products which were shipped on flatboats down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans. From the world market (overland from Philadelphia, I suspect, rather than being poled upriver from the Gulf) came elegant manufactured goods and luxuries such as tea, coffee, opium, and Madeira.\nLuminaries of the West, such as Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison came to stay here. Henry Clay was here so often that he has a room named after him.\nToday one can get a good sense of what the estate must have been like by visiting the mansion and its reconstructed outbuildings. You can get more info about the site hours, special events, and admission prices here.\nThe front of the mansion, designed by Benjamin Latrobe.\nA view of the summer kitchen.\nThe detached kitchen buildings. The house was considered ultra-modern in that it had a kitchen inside the house as well.\nThe Spring House, in a small gully near the house.\nThe fresh, cool waters of the spring kept dairy goods cold during the summer.\nA Conestoga Wagon. Contrary to what most people think, this type of wagon was used pretty exclusively in the East, hauling freight across the Appalachian Divide. The \"Prairie Schooners\" of the Far West were smaller, square-built wagons.\nWorthington's vast barn on an earlier visit. When we came, the upper levels were blocked off, but the lower stables held sheep and a curious barnyard cat.\nA tenant house, reconstructed. Pretty fancy for an era when many people still lived in log-hewn cabins.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What You Need:\n- 12 to 18 inch tall foam cone\n- Bag of pine cones – or ones from around your yard\n- Silver glitter\n- Bag of pre-cut stem wire\n- Butcher paper to cover work surface\n- Paint brush (optional, for spreading glue)\nWhat You Do:\n- Invite your child to take a walk around your yard or community and hunt for pine cones. For creating the pine cone tree any sized cones can be used, but ones about 3-inches in diameter work best.\n- Place the pine cones on a work surface that has been covered with a sheet of paper. Have her coat the pine cones with a brushing of glue and then sprinkle them with silver glitter. She can cover as many as she'd like with glitter, and leave some plain, too.\n- Next have her give the foam cone a coating of glue and roll it in the glitter on the worktable, creating an even covering of glitter.\n- While the pine cones and foam are drying, invite your child to draw a picture of a tree full of pine cones. You can research what types of trees have pine cones and what the purpose of pine cones are.\n- Once everything's dry, have her take a length of stem wire and wrap it around the base of one of the pine cones, leaving an inch of wire for her to gently press into the foam cone to secure it in place.\n- Encourage your child to continue wrapping and pressing pine cones into the foam cone until it is covered. It’s okay if some of the foam cone shows through, because it’s covered in glitter - it just adds to the finished tree!\n- You can use a pretty plate to place the pine cone tree on and then display the finished project for others to see!\nAs the season gets colder and kids come inside keep things fun and festive with activites!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How does an enzyme accomplish its tremendous enhancement of a reaction's rate (as much as a billion‐fold)? There is an upper limit to the activity of an enzyme: It cannot operate faster than the rate at which it encounters the substrate. In solution, this rate is approximately 10 8 to 10 9 times per second (sec ‐1). In the cell, enzymes acting on similar pathways are often located next to one another so that substrates don't have to diffuse away from one enzyme to the next—a mechanism that allows the enzymes to be more efficient than the theoretical limit. Even in solution, however, enzymes are powerful catalysts, and a variety of mechanisms bring about that power.\nWhen a chemical reaction occurs, the energy content of the reacting molecule or atom increases. This is why most chemical reactions, whether they release heat or absorb heat, happen faster as the temperature is raised. The high‐energy state of the reactants is called the transition state.\nFor example, in a bond‐breaking reaction, the transition state may be one where the reacting bond, although not completely broken, is vibrating at a frequency high enough that it is equally likely to split apart as to reform. Forming reactants or products results in the loss of energy from the transition state. This principle is shown in Figure , where the increased energy of the transition state is represented as a hill or barrier on the energy diagram. Catalysts reduce the height of the barrier for achieving the transition state.\nWhat are the chemical mechanisms that enzymes use to make it easier to get to the transition state? Enzymologists have determined that a number of mechanisms seem to operate, including:\n- Proximity. Enzymes can bring two molecules together in solution. For example, if a phosphate group is to be transferred from ATP to glucose, the probability of the two molecules coming close together is very low in free solution. After all, there are many other molecules that the ATP and the sugar could collide with. If the ATP and the sugar can bind separately and tightly to a third component—the enzyme's active site—the two components can react with each other more efficiently.\n- Orientation. Even when two molecules collide with enough energy to cause a reaction, they don't necessarily form products. They have to be oriented so that the energy of the colliding molecules is transferred to the reactive bond. Enzymes bind substrates so that the reactive groups are steered to the direction that can lead to a reaction.\n- Induced fit. Enzymes are flexible. In this regard, they are different from solid catalysts, like the metal catalysts used in chemical hydrogenation. After an enzyme binds its substrate(s), it changes conformation and forces the substrates into a strained or distorted structure that resembles the transition state. For example, the enzyme hexokinase closes like a clamshell when it binds glucose. In this conformation, the substrates are forced into a reactive state.\n- Reactive amino acid groups. The side chains of amino acids contain a variety of reactive residues. For example, histidine can accept and/or donate a proton to or from a substrate. In hydrolysis reactions, an acyl group can be bound to a serine side chain before it reacts with water. Having enzymes with these catalytic functions close to a substrate increases the rate of the reactions that use them. For example, a proton bound to histidine can be donated directly to a basic group on a substrate.\n- Coenzymes and metal ions. Besides their amino acid side chains, enzymes can provide other reactive groups. Coenyzmes are biomolecules that provide chemical groups that help catalysis. Like enzymes themselves, coenzymes are not changed during catalysis. This distinguishes them from other substrates, such as ATP, which are changed by enzyme action. Coenzymes, however, are not made of protein, as are most enzymes. Metal ions can also be found in the active sites of a number of enzymes, bound to the enzyme and sometimes to the substrate.\nCoenzymes provide chemical functional groups that proteins lack. For example, only sulfhydryl groups on amino acids are able to participate in oxidation and reduction reactions, and the formation/breakage of disulfides does not provide enough reducing power to alter most biomolecules's functional groups. Electron transfer requires one of several coenzymes, usually either nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, NAD, or flavin adenine dinucleotide, FAD, as electron acceptors and donors. Table shows some of these coenzymes.\nSome coenzymes participate in group‐transfer reactions that are difficult to carry out with amino acid side chain chemistries alone. For example, none of the side chains of the normal 20 amino acids can accept an amino group easily. On the other hand, the coenzyme pyridoxal phosphate has a carbonyl group that is well adapted to accepting or donating amino groups.\nVitamins are organic compounds required for human and animal growth. Many microorganisms (although by no means all) can grow and reproduce in a simple medium of sugars and inorganic salts. Likewise, photosynthetic organisms can synthesize all the organic molecules needed for life. These organisms don't need vitamins because they can synthesize them from simpler chemicals.\nOur species has lost the ability to make vitamins. Thus, deficiency of niacin (nicotinamide), the “N” in NAD, leads to the disease pellagra, a collection of skin, intestinal, and neurological symptoms. (Niacin can be synthesized from the amino acid tryptophan, so pellagra results from a deficiency of both niacin and tryptophan in the diet.)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This storyboard does not have a description.\nBeowulf and his Soldiers searching for Unferth and Grendel's mother.\nBeowulf and his soldiers spot a pool full of blood-boiling.\nBeowulf dives in. As he swims deeper and deeper he realizes he will drown, however, he finds blood bubbles that he can breathe with. They have a terrible taste but without them he would die. Suddenly he spots a light deep down. He continues swimming...\nSuddenly, Beowulf falls into a seaweed trap. He struggles to kick free. But the grip only becomes tighter. The monster is pulling him down...\nBeowulf realizes that he can breathe in the mother's den! Cain's wife drags Beowulf down further and further down into the heart of the cave. Beowulf breaks out in sheer panic. He remembers why he's down here and tightens his grip around one of the monster's tentacles. Before he tried swinging his blade at one of the humongous things but it jumped right off. \"Her skin was too tough and scaly.\"\nHe speaks to her like he did with her son. Saying how he has power over her, she is powerless against his will. It takes away her strength. \"There is a power you are powerless against. That power is within me.\" \"You feel it creeping up your flesh, leaving you numb and cold.\" Her eyes don't live long. They close softly. Beowulf strangles her at the neck. \"Her body was melting. She was dead.\"\nExplore Our Articles and Examples\nTry Our Other Websites!\nPhotos for Class\n– Search for School-Safe, Creative Commons Photos (It Even Cites for You!\n– Easily Make and Share Great-Looking Rubrics\n– Create Custom Nursery Art", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Klotho is a longevity-associated gene that has been under investigation for some years. Increasing its expression lengthens life in mice, while reducing it has the opposite effect. Here is an open access review on the topic with a focus on mechanisms relating to cardiovascular disease (CVD):\nKlotho, a gene originally identified in 1997 codifying for a novel anti-aging protein, has been implicated in a multitude of biological processes, most of them related to human longevity. Mice lacking the Klotho gene develop a phenotype similar to premature human aging, which includes endothelial dysfunction, vascular calcification, progressive atherosclerosis and shortened lifespan. A reduction in Klotho levels is observed in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, similar to other premature vascular aging diseases, such as hypertension or diabetes mellitus. Even normal aging is associated with a reduction in serum and urine concentration of Klotho.\nMore recently, the involvement of Klotho in vascular protection through different mechanisms has been demonstrated. These mechanisms include inhibition of oxidative stress, modulation of inflammation or attenuation of vascular calcification. Therefore, Klotho has been suggested as a master regulator of CVD. The disruption in the homeostasis of this factor seems to be a key element in the development of CVD. The reduction of circulating levels of Klotho is associated with the presence and severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) and is also an independent marker of some forms of vascular dysfunction such as arterial stiffness. Likewise, various genetic studies have shown the association between gene variants of human Klotho gene with CAD or stroke.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Julia Bachrach will give a presentation on the history of design response to changing recreational trends.\nJulia Bachrach will present a history of Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair\nJulia Bachrach will present this history of Jackson Park's 19th century transformations in conjunction with the Newbery Library's new exhibition entitled Pictures from the Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World's Fair.\nIn conjunction with the Associates of the Art Institute’s theme “Inspired by the Past,” Julia Bachrach will present to the Southland Community Associations. This presentation explores Chicago’s collection of murals and paintings in park field houses during the Progressive Era.\nDuring the early 20th century, Chicago’s renowned architects and planners Burnham and Bennett envisioned Grant Park as a magnificent French Renaissance landscape. That dream was finally realized in the 1920s, and since then Chicagoans have enjoyed a sense of Paris by visiting the city’s south lakefront.\nIn this presentation, Julia Bachrach will share her research, describe naming and other recent efforts to commemorate women’s contributions to Illinois history. She will illuminate the stories of many significant women who overcame great obstacles to achieve success.\nJulia Bachrach will tell the inspiring story of how Perkins and Jensen refused to give up until they could be sure their vision for the Cook County Forest Preserves would become a reality.\nAs cycling enjoys a new Golden Age in our region, this session explores the history of bicycling in Chicago while also examining important contemporary questions. What should be done to assure that bicyclists have the appropriate infrastructure? How are cycling resources being distributed within our neighborhoods? Julia Bachrach will illuminate the evolution of bicycling in Chicago. Chicago Reader columnist John Greenfield and city planner Benet Haller will report on the city’s diverse and growing cycling community, and Maggie Melin of the Active Transportation Alliance will forecast the future of cycling in Chicago. This program is sponsored by the Chicago Architecture Foundation.\nCost: Public $35, CAF Members 28$ Beer and light refreshments (This event is open only to guests 21 years old or older.) Register at architecture.org.\nImage: Veledrome in Humboldt Park, 1936, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library.\nHear fascinating stories about Chicago’s influential women and the process of naming parks in their honor.\nThis event is sponsored by Park Rogers Park West Ridge Historical Society and will be held at Indian Boundary Park. It is free to the public, but RSVP will be required. More information to be announced.\n(Photograph: Dr. Margaret Burroughs)\nElgin Alive Series, Gail Borden Library\n(Photo: Considered Jens Jensen’s masterpiece, Columbus Park includes iconic waterfalls, ca. 1925, Chicago Park District Records: Photographs Special Collections, Chicago Public Library.)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We can’t leave dealing with waste entirely to the government, either. Fortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency website has a many pages devoted to Wastes. They provide a lot of useful information to help us make the best choices for our own waste management.\nThe index page has links to four major groups of articles as well as a “Wastes Quick Finder.” If you recognize the topic you want in the quick finder, click there.\nOtherwise, finding the same articles requires a lot of clicking. The advantage to all that clicking, though, is that you will find topics grouped thematically, not just in alphabetical order.\n“What you can do”\nThis link goes to another index page. It has its own quick finder at the top. The main area of the page has two main choices: by season and by subject. I can save you at least one click: the menu you obtain by clicking “by subject” duplicates the menu that’s in the bar just under the quick finder:\n- At home and in the garden\n- On the go\n- At work\n- At school\n- In the community\n- How do I recycle my . . .\nThat last item gives you choices of electronics, compact fluorescent lights, household hazardous waste, and medical/pharmaceutical waste. All of these require special handling. It is both illegal and dangerous to put them with your regular trash. (Dead batteries, by the way, are household hazardous waste.)\nBesides the quick finder, this page looks different from the previous one. It is less attractive, but it offers helpful explanations of the links:\n- Reduce, reuse, recycle\n- Reducing food waste\n- Composting for facilities [industrial composting]\n- Sustainable materials management\n- Conservation tools\n- Common wastes and materials\nHere is the potentially scary stuff that makes the news whenever there is some kind of accident, whether at a plant or in transit. But remember: in many cases, the accidents result from carelessness no different from what too many people do at home!\n- Definition of solid waste\n- Types of hazardous waste\n- Generators [of hazardous waste]\n- Treatment, storage, and disposal\n- Hazardous waste recycling\n- Corrective action\n- Test methods\n- International waste\nThis heading has only two links: to municipal solid waste and industrial waste. Presumably non-hazardous liquid wastes get flushed or poured down a drain, which leads them to a wastewater treatment plant.\nThe “Waste” pages do not deal with non-hazardous liquid wastes. For a quick finder of information related to wastewater treatment, look at Wastewater Management under “Water.”\nBy the way, I write another blog, Sustainable Green Homes, devoted to providing dependable information on environmental matters. Check it out!Google+", "label": "No"}
{"text": "When you look up and see the multitude of stars you can’t help but to feel awestruck and perhaps a little small. The Moon Landings, Voyager, Hubble telescope, the Curiosity rover and much more have all expanded our knowledge and understanding of the solar system and the universe. What will be our next step on our our journey into the complex theatre of space? Exploring Mars? What technologies do we need to develop to help humans reach and explore past our moon? Is there a mysterious ninth planet we haven’t detected yet? What about life beyond our solar system? Michael Robinson poses these fascinating questions and helps expand our knowledge as he talks with his guests Rachel Kraft, Prof. Renu Malhorta, Prof. Sara Seager and Phil Larson.\nRachel Kraft – public affairs specialist, NASA\nProf. Renu Malhorta – planetary scientist, University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory\nProf. Sara Seager – astrophysicist; planetary scientist, MIT\nPhil Larson – assistant dean, College of Engineering & Applied Science, University of Boulder", "label": "No"}
{"text": "“Then God said, “Let there be light”, and there was light”.\nThe concept of creation out of nothing was a completely radical idea in antiquity. It was the Jewish religion that first introduced such a radical concept. Most, if not all, creation myths in antiquity parted from the premise that there was something before the formation of the universe. It is very tempting to point that such radical idea most closely resembles what today’s scientist call the Big Bang.\nThe Big Bang theory states that the observable universe is the result of a massive explosion that occurred about 13.7 billion years ago. It was as if the universe obeyed God’s command “Let there be light,” and there was the Big Bang. Although the Big Bang theory is agnostic whether or not anything existed before the Big Bang, it clearly argues that our observable universe had a beginning.\nThe idea of the Big Bang was not immediately accepted. The Aristotelian view of an eternal and static universe was accepted scientific theory up to the 1930’s. It was a Jesuit priest named Fr. George Lemaitre that first proposed the idea of a “primeval atom”, which today we called the Big Bang theory. Fr. Lemaitre based his theory on Einstein’s theory of relativity that, states the expansion of space and the discovery that galaxies are accelerating away from each other by astronomers Hubble and Humason in 1929. He argued that if galaxies are moving away from each other, then it follows that the further you go back in time the closer those galaxies are going to be and if you go far enough there is going to be a point where the size of the universe is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a sub-atomic particle: a “primeval atom”. Fr. Lemaitre succinctly explains his theory in the abstract for his 1931 publication in the science journal, Nature:\n“SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON states that, philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to him. I would rather be inclined to think that the present state of quantum theory suggests a beginning of the world very different from the present order of Nature. Thermodynamical principles from the point of view of quantum theory may be stated as follows : (1) Energy of constant total amount is distributed in discrete quanta. (2) The number of distinct quanta is ever increasing. If we go back in the course of time we must find fewer and fewer quanta, until we find all the energy of the universe packed in a few or even in a unique quantum”.\nIronically, his theory was considered to be too religious by some since it pointed towards a beginning and in doing so it pointed to a creation. The Big Bang was confirmed by the finding of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation by Nobel laureate recipients Penzias and Wilson in 1964 (Picture). Cosmologists Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman predicted this radiation in 1948 to be the remnant radiation of the Big Bang. Its temperature is exactly the temperature that physicists estimated it should be if it was from the Big Bang. Moreover the total amount of helium estimated to be present in the universe could only be accounted by the Big Bang because not enough time has passed for it to be produced by nuclear reactions inside of stars.\nThere is much speculation as to what happen before the Big Bang. At least two theories propose possible scenarios in which the Big Bang is not the beginning of the universe: eternal inflation and ekpyrotic models. It is not the scope of this post to explain in detail these purely mathematical theories other than to make readers aware that they are current working hypothesis. However, independently whether or not these theories are accurate an elegant mathematical theorem, developed by Borde, Vilenkin and Guth (BVG Theorem), demonstrates that any universe that has a Hubble expansion constant greater than zero has to have a beginning:\n“We made no assumptions about the material content of the universe…The only assumption that we made was that the expansion rate of the universe never gets below some nonzero value, no matter how small. This assumption should certainly be satisfied in the inflating false vacuum. The conclusion is that past-eternal inflation without a beginning is impossible”.\nVilenki 2006, p 175 (Taken from “New Proof for the Existence of God”)\nIn other words, any universe or multi-verse has to have a beginning and since according to the principle of sufficient reason any beginning must have a cause, the question remains what caused the universe to begin?\nIn my next post, I will discuss, how science demonstrates the infinitesimally small probability that the observable universe was caused by random chance. Taken together the evidence from modern physics and philosophical/metaphysical arguments, it is reasonable to believe that God created the universe, out of nothing.\nI owed the inspiration of this post to Fr. Benedict Groechel talk, God the Father, which until recently could be found at EWTN for free download. The scientific and philosophical arguments were mostly taken from Fr. Robert Spitzer book: New Proof for the Existence of God.\nI hope that I did not do any disservice to their work by my poor abilities to articulate it.\nAlso note, that there is a third hypothesis that states that the Big Bang is the result of an ongoing cycle of expansion and contractions, each one producing a new big bang and thereby a new universe. I did not include this hypothesis for the sake of brevity and the fact that it has been discredited by the observation that galaxy are moving irreversibly away from each other at an increasingly faster pace. Making it impossible for the predicted Big Crunch to happen. Moreover, evidence from the law of thermodynamics clearly indicates that even in this bouncing universe scenario, it must also have to have a beginning.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Reading history can help us deal with our present fears. I am currently reading a book called The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 by Canon John O’Rourke. It is available by downlead from Project Gutenberg. I have found that many people know about the great potato famine that drove waves of Irish emigration. It is the events around it that I find reassuring because they reflect on the panic that so many are trying to create around the world.\nThe cause of the famine was not a potato blight. That is what the books tell us and there was a problem with the potato crop. It failed. That failure put many people in the path of starvation but not because there was no food. It is restated several times by the time I am a fourth way through the book but here is one,\n\"That the people of Ireland, in their bitter hours of misfortune, have the strongest right to impeach the criminality of the ministers of the crown, inasmuch as it has pleased a merciful Providence to favour Ireland in the present season with a most abundant crop of oats. Yet, whilst the Irish harbours are closed against the importation of foreign food, they are left open for the exportation of Irish grain, an exportation which has already amounted in the present season to a quantity nearly adequate to feed the entire people of Ireland, and to avert the now certain famine; thus inflicting upon the Irish people the abject misery of having their own provisions carried away to feed others, whilst they themselves are left contemptuously to starve.” Kindle location 1293-1298\nThe potato failed but there was a bumper crop of other foods. The problem was not a lack of food but a surplus of political shenanigans. England controlled Ireland and made it illegal for the Irish to import food that did not first get unloaded in an English port and then loaded again. They also looked at crops like oats as a cash crop and were not about to leave them for the Irish to eat.\nThe government in London knew the problem and did a lot of talking but at the point I am in the book they were doing nothing but talk. I am assuming since the famine was so bad that they kept talking and taking their tea breaks.\nThere were other political causes of hunger around the world. This is just one example.\nThen you have what we like to call “climate change.” It is a common occurrence in the history of the world. Ireland got there share.\n\"’In the beginning of November, 1739, the weather,’ says O'Halloran, ‘was very cold, the wind blowing from the north east, and this was succeeded by the severest frost known in the memory of man, which entirely destroyed the potatoes, the chief support of the poor.’ It is known to tradition as the ‘great frost,’ the ‘hard frost,’ the ‘black frost,’ etc.” Kindle Location 445-448Then we have another familiar story.\n“To add to the miseries of the people there was a great drought all the winter and spring.” Kindle Location 471-472And then they went through torrential rains that rotted the potatoes in addition to the blight.\nDoes any of this sound familiar? It should. It is very similar to what we are going through. There is nothing we can do about the weather except accept that it is part of the natural cycle of the earth. The politics also seem like we are being run into the ground. Do what you can on that. If nothing else, wake up to people you have voted for that are backing the current politics of the Progressives.\nI think it fits into Solomon’s statement,\n(Ecc 1:9 KJV) The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.homo unius libri", "label": "No"}
{"text": "IN A small classroom four teenage boys laugh and roll their eyes at each other’s wisecracks. The instructor, sometimes speaking in Spanish, encourages them to think about their futures. For his family, one says, “I want to buy a big-ass house.” Another wants to work with cars. A third thinks a family reunion would be great. The classroom is on Rikers Island, New York City’s biggest jail. The teens are participating in the Adolescent Behavioral Learning Experience (ABLE) programme, which helps them focus on personal responsibility through cognitive behaviour therapy. The programme’s goal is to cut the re-incarceration rate among the youngsters, and it is funded using social impact bonds (SIB).\nA SIB is an experimental financing method which connects financially-stressed municipalities with private investors to fund public projects at no initial cost to taxpayers. Also known as pay-for-success contracts, these schemes began in Britain’s Peterborough prison in 2010. Unlike most funding for social projects, which tend to pay for inputs, SIBs rely on results. New York is the first city in America to try one. Unlike in Britain, which had do-gooder sorts finance its social projects, New York has Goldman Sachs, a Wall Street institution. It is funding the programme to the tune of $9.6m over four years. This is not a charitable donation. Alicia Glen, head of Goldman’s Urban Investment Group, says “it is a real loan.”\nIf re-incarceration rates for the teens at Rikers drops by 10%, Goldman gets its money back. If they fall further than 10%, Goldman will see a tidy profit. But if rates do not fall by the set target, Goldman stands to lose money. Michael Bloomberg, New York’s billionaire mayor, is a big supporter, so much so that his philanthropy group, Bloomberg Philanthropies, is guaranteeing $7.2m of the loan.\nMeeting that goal will be hard, in part because the teens are not behind bars for very long. Many are awaiting trial or transfer, so most stays on the island are of just a few months. This means the non-profits, MDRC, Osborne Association and Friends of Island Academy, who are charged with overseeing and implementing ABLE, do not have much time with each adolescent. Still, Dora Shriro, the Corrections Commissioner, is confident rates will fall by more than 10%.\nThis article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline \"Being good pays\"", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Web as a platform is all the rage these days. It’s not hard to see why. With the ability to create web apps in a matter of hours with very little experience in coding, it will soon be the de facto way to build applications.\nIt even looks like the war between web based apps and native apps on mobile has been won by the web platform in the guise of progressive web apps (pwas).\nThe reason for this, is of course because after fending off Flash and Java applets, JS is the only way to code applications on the web.\nComponents are becoming popular as it allows companies to create block of UI that they can reuse across apps and sites. For example EA Games share a set of components through their many individual game sites.\nReact components can be shared between applications and sites. There are many sites out there that even offer UI libraries of React components.\nPolymer is a project that is backed by Google. It aims to help you create components with a small library to ease the process. The Polymer project also includes a CLI (command line interface) to help you build and test your components.\nWebcomponents.org is the home for a W3C project that aims to make web components a standard. It outlines 4 specifications that make up web components; Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, ES Modules and HTML Templates.\nCustom elements allow developers to create custom HTML tags. So for example, you could create an element called\n<my-side-navigation> that would render a side navigation on your site. You could then share it with your other sites.\nThe Shadow DOM allows you to encapsulate HTML and CSS so that they don’t effect the rest of the site.\nHTML Templates are where the components html is created. This is the HTML that is rendered when the tag is added to a page.\nThere are other libraries out there for creating web components, but these are the main ones.\nWeb components are sign of the maturing of the web as a platform. In traditional application development, components have been around for a long time. Together with concepts like Atomic Design, there are now really powerful tools for developing reusable components to put together really compulsive experiences for your visitors.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Piero Scaruffi(Copyright © 2013 Piero Scaruffi | Legal restrictions )\nThese are excerpts and elaborations from my book \"The Nature of Consciousness\"\nThe Triune Brain\nThe US neurologist Paul MacLean (“The triune brain, emotion, and scientific bias”, 1970) popularized the notion that the human head contains not one but three brains: a \"triune\" brain.\nLike the layers of an archeological site, each brain corresponds to a different stage of evolution. Each brain is connected to the other two, but each operates individually with a distinct \"personality\". The neocortex does not control the rest of the brain: all three parts interact, although it is true that the neocortex interacts in a more \"cognitive\" manner. But the \"brain\" that interacts in a more \"instinctive\" manner can be as dominant and even more. And ditto for the \"emotional\" one.\nThe oldest of the three brains, the \"reptilian\" brain, is a system that has changed little from reptiles to mammals and to humans. This \"brain\" comprises the brain stem and the cerebellum. It is responsible for species-specific behavior: instinctive behavior such as self-preservation and aggression. The cerebellum and the brainstem constitute virtually the entire brain of reptiles. The most basic life-sustaining processes of the body, such as respiration, heartbeat and sleep, are controlled by the brainstem. More precisely, the brainstem is the brain's connection with the autonomic nervous system, the part of the nervous system that regulates functions such as heartbeat, breathing, etc. that do not require conscious control. It is always active, even when we sleep. It endlessly repeats the same patterns over and over again, mechanically. It does not change, it does not learn. In ancient species this system was basically most of the brain, and limbs and organs were controlled locally.\nMost mammals share with us the limbic system, which MacLean believes was born after the reptilian system and was simply added to it. The earliest mammals had a brain that was basically the reptilian brain plus the limbic system. MacLean therefore believes this to be the old mammalian (or \"paleo-mammalian\") brain. The limbic system contains the hippocampus, the thalamus and the amygdala, which are considered responsible for emotions and emotional instincts (behaviors related to food, sex and competition). These emotions are functional to the survival of the individual and of the species. This system is capable of learning, because it contains \"affective\" memories, i.e. emotion-laden memories. Ultimately, the limbic system is about \"pain\" and \"pleasure\": avoiding pain and repeating pleasure.\nThe neo-cortex is the main brain of the primates, which are among the latest mammals to appear. All animals have a neo-cortex but only in primates it is so relevant: most animals without a neocortex would behave normally. This \"neo-mammalian\" brain is responsible for higher cognitive functions such as language and reasoning.\nThe oldest of the three brains is located at the bottom and to the back. The newest sits on top and to the front.\nThey all complement each other to produce what we consider human behavior. Each is an autonomous unit that could exist without the others.\nThe elegance of MacLean's model is that it neatly separates mechanical behavior, emotional behavior and rational behavior. It shows how they arose chronologically and, indirectly, for what purpose. And it shows how they coexist and complement each other. They constitute three steps towards human \"intelligence\".\nThe US psychologist Anthony Stevens related these three brains to Jung’s division of the mind into a conscious, un unconscious and a collective unconscious, the collective unconscious being the oldest one and therefore assigned to the reptilian brain.\nBack to the beginning of the chapter \"Inside The Brain\" | Back to the index of all chapters", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Jump Chess Move\nIn chess, the knight is the only piece that may jump pieces, provided that the destination square must be either empty or occupied by one of the opposing pieces.\nThe knight is considered to be one of the most unique chess pieces you have to play with. This horse-like piece can move in strange L shapes and is the only chess piece that is allowed to jump over other chess pieces according to official chess rules. The knight's movement is rather different from other pieces as it moves in an L shape; either 2 squares forward, backward, left, or right and then 1 square left or right. This special jumping feature can make the knight a very useful chess piece, especially at the start of the game.\nThe king has a small range of movement and may move only 1 square in any direction so long as it move doesn’t leave the moving side in check and the destination square isn’t currently occupied by a friendly piece. The king is not allowed to jump.\nAlthough the queen is a lot more mobile, she may not jump any pieces like the knight piece can. However, she may slide any number of squares in any direction. The queen’s destination square can either be empty or occupied by one of the opponent’s piece. The move mustn’t leave the moving side’s King in check.\nThe rook has quite a wide range and may slide any number of squares either horizontally or vertically but may not jump pieces. As usual, the destination square must be either empty or occupied by an opposing piece. None of the rook’s moves must leave the moving side in check.\nThe bishop piece may slide any number of squares in a diagonal direction but may not jump pieces. The destination square must be empty or occupied by an opposing piece. The move must not leave the moving side in check.\nThe chess pawn is often in the line of fire because it may only move 1 square forward as long as its destination square is empty. The pawn may move 2 squares on its first move if there are 2 squares open, as pawns are also not allowed to jump over other pieces. The pawn can only capture a piece that is 1 square diagonally in front of it and the move mustn’t leave the moving side in check. One exception to the pawn moving rules is the en passant rule.\nIf you are looking for chess variant that allows for a bit more jumping, with pieces other than knights, you can always try jumping chess. In this variant, queens, rooks and bishops can choose to jump over one intervening chess piece of either color. Jumping Chess is a Chess Variant where captures are made by jumping over a piece, as in Checkers. The standard chess array is used, but in order to avoid many un-captured pieces at the edge of the board, 2 extra ranks and 2 extra files are added.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "“Welcome to a world of pain, disease, medicine and haircuts, the world of the Tudor surgeon!\nI have a very important job on-board the Mary Rose – healing wounds, making medicines, doing operations, pulling teeth and making sure the crew are fighting fit.”\nThe Surgeon on the Mary Rose had to look after all the men on the Mary Rose, and while some of his treatments of their illnesses arelike the ones used today, some are very dfferent...\nPeople didn’t look after their teeth in Tudor times. The men of the Mary Rose had a lot of cavities, and missing teeth. The surgeon would act as the dentist. However, the only real treatment he had for toothache was to pull the teeth out with pliers, often without anaesthetic.\nThe surgeon would try to mend broken arms or legs, using splints to help the bone heal. If this didn’t work, he might have to amputate, cutting off the damaged arm or leg. Luckily, this wasn’t done very often.\nThere was no effective anaesthetic at the time, so the surgeon would have to work very quickly. The surgeon would use sharp tools to cut through the flesh and bone, then would seal the wound with heat to stop bleeding.\nThe theory of the four humours was an ancient idea, still popular in Tudor times. It wasn’t until the 1800s that it was abandoned.\nIt was thought at the time that there were four liquids in the body; blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile. These were called the ‘humours’. It was believed that people became sick when the liquids were out of balance.\nOne of the ways a surgeon could try to keep a patients’ humours in balance was to bleed them. This was done by opening a vein and catching the blood in a bowl like the one found on the Mary Rose.\nThe surgeon could also use leeches. The patient wouldn’t feel any pain because the leeches have an anaesthetic in their saliva. Leeches are sometimes used today, although bleeding is no longer practised.\nThe surgeon’s chest found on the Mary Rose contained the largest collection of Tudor medical supplies. This includes many medicines, still in their original containers\nNine of the wooden containers in the chest contained ointments. Some of them may have been used to prepare dressings. We also found spatulas, which might have been used to apply the ointments, either to the patient or to bandages.\nA wooden container full of peppercorns was also found in the chest, these could have been used as a medicine to help a patient expel wind. Many Tudor medicines were made from herbs and spices, some of which are still used today. The surgeon would have books full of herbal remedies.\nSome treatments were worse than others. Some diseases were treated by injecting the sufferer with a poisonous liquid metal called mercury. Not only did the treatment not work, mercury makes you go mad! Some of the mercury, and a syringe for this job, was found on the Mary Rose.\nThere’s very little evidence of diseases from the human remains found on the ship. However, ships contained a lot of men all crowded together, so disease could spread very quickly. Luckily, the crew had ways of pretecting themselves from getting ill.\nNobody knew the real cause of disease; some people thought it was caused by bad air, and carried pomanders full of sweet herbs and spices to keep the smells away.\nAmong the surgeon’s belongings was a wooden feeding bottle, used to feed a sailor who was too ill or injured to feed themselves. It might have been filled with a stew or a type of broth to make it easy to administer the much needed nutritious food.\nHeadlice were a common problem on-board ships, much as they are in schools today! The crew of the Mary Rose would use nit combs to remove lice and fleas from their hair.\nThe men of the Mary Rose would have known that keeping clean was the key to good health. We found many items that were important for this, including a manicure set!\nThe surgeon’s assistant would have carried out basic jobs, such as washing and cutting hair for the crew. The tools used to do this were found in the surgeon’s cabin. These included combs, a shaving bowl and razors.\nThe razors had long blades that folded back into the handles. Unfortunately, the blades of the barber-surgeon’s tools have all rusted away. You had to be careful using these razors; it was very easy to cut the person you were shaving. Another name for them is cut-throat razors!\nThis brass shaving bowl comes from the surgeon’s cabin. There is a scoop taken out of the rim so that the bowl can fit tightly against the person’s neck.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tell Them We Are Rising explores the pivotal role historically black colleges and universities have played in America.\nA grisly discovery of more than 400 mutilated bodies in Mexico is turning history on its head and rewriting what we know about the Aztec civilization.\nHistory took a turn in 1992 when Mexican archaeologists uncovered 400 mutilated skeletons, more than 40 of which turned out to be bodies of 15th century Spanish conquistadors. For years, historians have claimed that the Aztecs welcomed the Spanish with open arms. Now, solid evidence proves the Aztecs not only resisted the conquistadors, they sacrificed them, and even engaged in cannibalism.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "February is Black History Month across Canada and many of us are taking the time to understand, take stock, and act to address anti-Black racism. This month of education, reflection, and action provides Canadians with the opportunity to consider how all aspects of identity, including race, inform Black History in Canada.\nIt is common to talk about different aspects of identity as if they stand alone. But in reality, people’s identities co-exist in one’s life and one aspect of their identity informs another.\nFor example, the history of African Nova Scotians is informed by the history of enslavement in Canada, and the anti-slavery movement that was led by many African Nova Scotian leaders like Richard Preston. His movement to address racism and promote community well-being was grounded in his Christian faith. Under his leadership, churches became sites of community gathering. In Ontario, Sandwich First Baptist Church, constructed in 1851 as part of the Underground Railroad, is one of the oldest active Black churches in Canada. Designated a National Historic Site in 2000, the church highlights that Black history in Canada is part of Canadian history. These stories demonstrate how race, religion, citizenship status, and community well-being are all intertwined when we discuss Black history in Canada. Other examples include the First Baptist Church in Toronto and the role of Viola Desmond’s Christian community in her stand against racism.\nThe whole person\nRace, religion, and spirituality continue to be interconnected for many people. Singling out one aspect of their identity misses out the richness and complexity of understanding the whole person.\nThe past shows us that laws and social norms segregated people by race. They informed how Black Canadians were excluded or lacked access to education, jobs, suitable housing, citizenship rights, among other things. In response, many Black religious communities supported the well-being of the Black community.\nToday, institutional slavery no longer exists but segregation continues in behaviour and attitude. These behaviours and attitudes maintain anti-Black racism in the larger society (seen in education, justice system, access to jobs, etc.) as well as religious groups (seen in some Prairie Christian churches, some Montreal Muslim mosques, and some Jewish communities) across Canada.\nAs Canadians work together to promote equity and eliminate hate and discrimination, we need to understand the complex reality of how race, religion, and spirituality, among many other aspects of identity, are interconnected. When we do so, we are able to fully engage with Black History in Canada.\nBy: Dr. W. Y. Alice Chan and Dr. Margie Patrick\nTo read other ways to use religious literacy, check out other Thought Corner contributions here: https://ccrl-clrc.ca/religious-literacy-resources/thought-corner/", "label": "No"}
{"text": "When we think about planting home gardens, we think of either landscaping with inedible plants or planting a separate vegetable garden. Why not combine them into a beautiful and useful garden you can eat? Edible plants can provide decoration and give us a healthy food source at the same time.\nIncorporating edible plants into your existing landscape can provide interesting and varied displays for every season. They can attract butterflies and birds, reduce chemicals compared to store-bought produce and yield food that is fresh and tastes better than store-bought products.\nHerbs, vegetables and even fruit grow well in containers. Mixed into your existing garden, they can give spice and visual variety, provide borders for walkways, be used as hedges and walls, provide striking canopies and shade and be used as replacements for high maintenance lawns. They can give brilliant shows of seasonal colors and double as fresh food.\nIf you let seasonal plants grow to maturity, they will show off wonderful flowers that contrast with your everyday green landscape plants. A few of them are basil, chamomile, chives, and mint. Attractive borders can be achieved with kale, lavender, marjoram, parsley, and shallots.\nInstead of grass and other traditional ground covers, think about using creeping mint, Alpine strawberry, thyme, and trailing rosemary. Both nasturtium and mint will cover large areas. Some plants can be started and pruned into hedges, even lemons and limes.\nPlanting many edible crops is seasonal, so you have to plant warm-season crops (the soil should be between 60 and 80 degrees when planted) in spring, and cool-season crops in fall. Edible plants normally need at least six hours of sunlight a day. Vegetable plants often need plenty of water, so plants that are interspersed with other plants must have compatible water requirements.\nTo find out more about landscaping with edible plants, the Master Gardeners are giving a free Advice to Grow By workshop from 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 16 in the Garden of the Seven Sisters, 2156 Sierra Way, San Luis Obispo.\nGOT A GARDENING QUESTION?\nContact the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners: at 781-5939 from 1 to 5 p.m. on Monday and Thursday; at 473-7190 from 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesday in Arroyo Grande; and at 434-4105 from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday in Templeton. Visit the UCCE Master Gardeners Web site at http://ucanr.org/sites/mgslo or email firstname.lastname@example.org .", "label": "No"}
{"text": "By- V.P. Prabhakar :The Indian freedom struggle is a unique example in the history of mankind. The people of all sections, rising above caste-creed, ‘panth’ and community considerations, had come together to take part in it. Starting from 1857 to 1947 it was the struggle and sacrifices of many generations of people as a result of which Independence was achieved. Lakhs of people had taken part in the freedom struggle.\nRegular reverence is paid to Subhash Chander Bose, known as Netaji, who formed the Indian National Army (INA) to fight the Britishers. The INA had given a big jolt to the mighty British Empire and the people always remember him for his courage and sacrifice. Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru, Udham Singh, Lala Lajpat Rai and thousands of others scarified so that their countrymen could breathe freely in Independent India.\nNow it is the duty of the Central and State Governments to look after the freedom fighters who are alive, their spouses and dependent children. The Central Government had instituted the Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme under which 1,70,200 freedom fighters and their dependents are at present getting pension. The number continues to vary every year, with the death of old freedom fighters and their dependents and spouses getting the same benefits.\nAt the time of independence, Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh was one state called Punjab. Some parts of Himachal Pradesh were also part of Punjab. Keeping all these states and Chandigarh, the total number of freedom fighters and their dependents getting pension are 9406. If taken separately as today, there are 7008 freedom fighters and their dependents in Punjab, 1685 in Haryana, 89 in Chandigarh and 624 in Himachal Pradesh.\nBihar (Including Jharkhand) tops the list of pensioners with 24870 followed by West bengal with 22484 and very close to it are members of the Azad Hind Fauj (INA) with 22468. Uttar Pradesh has 17990 freedom fighters and their dependents, Andhra Pradesh with 14573, Jammu and Kashmir with 1806, Karnataka with 10084, Maharashtra 17732, Delhi with 2044 and Gujarat with 3596.\nThe following is the complete list Total (1,70,200) pensioners: Andhra Pradesh (14573), Arunachal Pradesh (0), Assam (4438), Bihar (including Jharkhand) (24870), Goa (1436), Gujarat (3596), Haryana (1685), Himachal Pradesh (624), Jammu & Kashmir (1806), Karnataka (10084), Kerala (3228), Madhya Pradesh (3468), Maharashtra (17732), Manipur (62), Meghalaya (86), Mizoram (04), Nagaland (03), Orissa (4189), Punjab (7008), Rajasthan (811), Sikkim (0), Tamil Nadu (4099), Tripura (887), Uttar Pradesh (17990), West bengal (22484), Andaman and Nicobar (03), Chandigarh (89), Dadar and Nagar Haveli (83), Daman and Diu (33), Lakshdweep (0), Delhi (2044), Pondicherry (317), Azad Hind Fauj (INA) (22468).\nEligibility : The scheme specifies eligibility criteria of imprisonment/underground sufferings of at least six months, internment in homes/externment from districts for at least six months, confiscation of properties, permanent incapacitation, loss of job or suffering at least ten strokes of flogging, which a claimant should have undergone in connection with the national freedom struggle, subject to furnishing of the prescribed evidence through the state government concerned.\nDependents : Spouses (widows/widowers), unmarried and unemployed daughters (upto maximum three) and parents of deceased freedom fighters (as also martyrs) are eligible for grant of dependent family pension under the scheme.\nThe Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme has been liberalised from time to time. Under the scheme, pension is granted to ex-Andaman Political prisoners, freedom fighters and their dependents. This includes provision for payment of pension to freedom fighters under Goa liberation movement and those who participated in the struggle for merger of erstwhile Nizam State of Hyderabad with Union of India.\nFacilities to Freedom Fighters :\n· Free railway pass (Ist class/AC sleeper) for freedom fighter and widow/widower along with a companion for life.\n· Free medical facilities in all Central Government hospitals and hospitals run by PSUs under the control of the Bureau of Public Enterprises. Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) Facilities have also been extended to freedom fighters and their dependents.\n· Telephone connection, subject to feasibility, without installation charges and on payment of only half the rental.\n· General pool residential accommodation (within the overall 5 per cent discretionary quota) to freedom fighters in Delhi.\n· Widow/widower of the freedom fighters is also permitted to retain the accommodation for a period of six months after the death of the freedom fighter.\n· Accommodation in the Freedom Fighters’ Home set up at New Delhi for freedom fighters who have no one to look after the.\nIn addition to the above facilities, ex-Andaman freedom fighters are also entitled to the following facilities :\n· Free voyage facility for freedom fighter and widow, to visit Andaman and Nicobar Islands, once a year, along with a companion.\n· Free air travel facility for freedom fighters, to visit Andaman and Nicobar Islands, once a year, along with a companion.\n· All major facilities provided to freedom fighters are also extended to their widows/widowers.\nA sum of Rs.550.05 crore has been earmarked for freedom fighters pension and other facilities in 2008-09. This amount was Rs.440.05 crore in 2007-08 and in revised budget for 2007-08 was increased to Rs.500.10 crore. For free railway passes Rs.35 crore has been kept for 2008-09 which was Rs.31 crore in the revised budget for 2007-08. The eligibility criterion for grant of pension on ground of jail suffering specifies a minimum period of six months which the freedom fighters should have undergone in connection with the freedom movement. However, as a special dispensation for women freedom fighters and for members of the scheduled castes/scheduled tribes, the minimum period has been kept at three months.\nEligible dependents or deceased freedom fighters for grant of dependent family pension are spouses (widow/widower) unmarried and unemployed daughters (upto three), mother and father. Hence, though sons have not been recognized as eligible dependents, unmarried and unemployed daughters have been extended this benefit.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "You have just learned that you will be required to read not any old Shakespearean play but one of the Bard’s complex tragedies—Macbeth. How will you ever muddle through the unfamiliar language or plot? Following these 8 steps will help you quickly understand and appreciate the play. You may even become quite the Shakespeare connoisseur!\n1) Read a modern translation along with the original. Most teachers will be happy for you to also use a modern translation because they know it can be tough to understand Macbeth at first. For an excellent side-by-side translation, see the eNotes version here. One word of caution, however—be sure to still read the original words. Once you get the hang of it (and we promise that you will), the language really makes the play. You won’t want to miss out!\n2) Relate to the passion between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Love is a timeless theme, so you can comprehend how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship thrived on love and mutual support, trust, and respect. However, when trust breaks down, secrets reign, and respect dissipates, any relationship will fall apart...whether you are from the 17th century or 21st century.\n3) Do background research into the time period. You will appreciate Shakespeare and his works so much better if you take the time to research some of the history and culture of the Elizabethan era. What was it like to be a member of a royal family? What did people do for recreation? What beliefs and superstitions did people hold? The answers to those questions and many others will help you relate to the characters and themes of Macbeth.\n4) Delineate the tragic flaw. A tragic flaw is an inevitable shortcoming of a character that often leads to his or her demise. How does this concept apply to the character of Macbeth? Is he a victim of a domineering wife with no scruples? Is he a puppet of the evil witches? Is he just a man with a dream he cannot control? Pinpoint some answers to these questions, and you have mastered one of the major themes of Macbeth.\n5) Realize the plot is action-packed and exciting. Would you want to read a story with supernatural twists, a passionate relationship, betrayal, and murder? How about one that you could always relate to no matter how long ago the book was written? All of these descriptive phrases characterize Macbeth. From the eerie witches predicting (or controlling?) the action to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s ambitions spurring them to perform unspeakable horrors, a better story would be hard to find!\n6) Act out complicated scenes. Most teachers will have students act out scenes from Macbeth as part of a class study. Volunteer to be a character, and you’ll really understand the ins and outs of what makes that character tick. Also, you will understand the play far better if you act it out rather than read it silently. Plays, after all, are meant to be performed and are written with this end in mind.\n7) Annotate and react. Use whatever strategies for annotation and active reading your teacher has taught you in the past while you read Macbeth. Make note of quotes or moments that confuse or intrigue you as well. When you read a difficult work, this step is crucial.\n8) Label or organize characters to keep them straight. Make a “family tree” or create an original graphic organizer to help you keep the characters and their roles in the play straight. Have this organizer with you while you read, and make additional notes right in the text whenever needed.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "By Yang Sung-jin\nChief investigators from Korea and the United States are scheduled to hold their first meeting this week to discuss for a joint probe into the Nogun-ri massacre.\nThe investigation into the massacre of civilian refugees by U.S. troops during the 1950-53 Korean War may reveal how and why hundreds of Koreans were killed upon orders from U.S. Army commanders.\nWhatever the outcome of the joint investigation, the Nogun-ri massacre would not have happened if the nation had been prepared for possible attacks from North Korea.\nA similar logic can be applied to the military preparedness of Choson Kingdom which suffered numerous invasions from hostile neighboring countries.\nThe general perception is that Choson did not pay much attention to the military buildup, which led to the Japanese Invasion of 1592 and the Manchu Invasion of 1636.\nBut according to annals articles, the nation did make great efforts to defend itself against foreign invasions in the earlier period.\nFor instance, the Choson court was eager to learn techniques to manufacture swords and spears from Japan in the 15th century.\nAt the time, the Japanese sharpened their edge when it came to battle- oriented swords and spears.\nOccasionally, Japanese diplomats visiting Korea presented refined swords to the Choson government as gifts in a show of their advanced technology.\nOn June 1 of 1430, King Sejong awarded Sim Ul, a naval officer who crossed the East Sea to Japan and acquired skills necessary to produce a Japanese sword.\nImpressed by the high-quality sword made by Sim Ul, King Sejong gave clothes and food to him, while exempting the naval officer from his military duty.\nIn September of 1628, the Ministry of Military Affairs filed an appeal to King Injo over the declining military power: “In every battle, fighting with swords is the key to securing the final victory. King Sonjo knew the principle and that’s why he ordered every military official to practice swordsmanship. But nowadays military officials do not practice with swords, which is deeply regrettable.”\nCertainly, the Choson kings and officials tried to beef up military readiness in the 15th century. As a result, the nation enjoyed an extended period of peace and stability.\nIn the following period, officials began to ignore military issues, taking the hard-earned peace for granted.\nMoreover, today’s historians point out King Sejo’s coup as a key factor that undercut the overall military policy of Choson.\nKing Sejo staged a military coup and took over the throne of his nephew, King Tanjong, by force. Therefore, King Sejo understood the tremendous ramification of the military power better than anyone else.\nAs soon as King Sejo settled down in the court, he began to reign in the military and weapons production in a bid to block any attempt of future military coup.\nThe tight control on the production of military weapons stifled innovation in technology, thus downgrading the nation’s self-defense level.\nAt the same time, officials in charge of weapons production and management lost a sense of discipline.\nIn June of 1463, state-owned weapons were stolen and officials involved were punished.\nIn 1467, an official named No Cho-kuyong was arrested on the charge of illegally producing weapons for private purposes.\nNotably, a movable rocket named “Shinkichon,” which played a key role in fighting off invaders in the earlier period of Choson, became a ritualistic tool.\nAccording to an article dated on Oct. 20, 1456, when the court staged a royal procession, Shinkichon was used as a tool to create smoke in the background.\nThe humiliating downgrade of Shinkichon reached a climax when King Yonsangun ordered officials to use the powerful weapon for pleasure- seeking in May of 1506.\n“When I play at Mangwonjong, let no ship approach the pavilion. Use Shinkichon to fire shots at any intruder as a warning,” the notorious tyrant said.\nDuring the reign of King Chungjong, the military issue was pushed aside, giving priority to national affairs.\nFor instance, officials asked the king to produce weapons by melting huge bells at Hunchon and Hungduk Temples in 1512 but the material for military purposes never reached the furnace.\nInstead, the bells were melted to produce bowls and kitchenware.\nIn the mid-16th century, Japanese sea-borne pirates began to assault Choson villages with gunpowder and explosives.\nIn 1555, a group of Japanese pirates raged in the southern coastal areas, which alarmed the Choson court.\nDesperate to resolve the problem, court officials asked the king to melt bells at the East Gate and South Gate in Seoul to produce necessary military weapons.\nBut King Myongjong did not buy the idea. Officials filed another appeal, which was also rejected by the king who deemed the bell as an important Buddhist symbol.\n“Although the objects are useless, we should not destroy them recklessly. The enemies can be quickly tamed if we dispatch a skillful military general who can handle the matter wisely,” King Myongjong said.\nAnnals writers criticized Myongjong’s short-sighted policy, predicting troubles ahead.\nAnd their worries proved on the mark. Four decades later, Choson suffered the devastating Japanese invasion, a shameful result of irresponsible insouciance.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A Duke University student has created a wireless power saving technology called Sleep Well which has the capability to double the battery life of mobile devices, they claim.\nThe technology addresses the need for WiFi devices to 'stay awake' while waiting their turn to download a packet and this results in higher battery consumption in areas of dense WiFi availability.\nUsing an analogy Duke graduate student Malweiler explained the concept of the technology: \"Big cities face heavy rush hours as workers come and leave their jobs at similar times. If work schedules were more flexible, different companies could stagger their office hours to reduce the rush.\"\n\"With less of a rush, there would be more free time for all, and yet, the total number of working hours would remain the same.\"\n\"The same is true of mobile devices trying to access the Internet at the same time,\" Manweiler said. \"The SleepWell-enabled WiFi access points can stagger their activity cycles to minimally overlap with others, ultimately resulting in promising energy gains with negligible loss of performance.\"\nThe researchers called SleepWell a potentially 'important upgrade' to WiFi technology although it does seem unlikely that WiFi power savings will result in doubling of most smartphone phone users' battery life.\nStill, power is power.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hydrologic and geochemical research has identified and characterized the physical and chemical processes that control the evolution and movement of metal contaminants in ground water beneath Miami Wash and lower Pinal Creek. The dissolution of calcite in the alluvial aquifer has slowed and neutralized part of the acidic plume, and the sorption of some metals such as nickel and copper to other solids in the subsurface has lowered concentrations of these metals in the ground water.\nAdditional Publication Details\nUSGS Numbered Series\nHydrology and geochemistry of aquifer and stream contamination related to acidic water in Pinal Creek basin near Globe, Arizona", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Carbon Free Power ProjectBy the end of this decade, the first NuScale small modular reactor (SMR) power plant will begin operation in the United States in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Foundational to the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP), an initiative spearheaded by the public power consortium Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS), the NuScale plant will advance the goals of the CFPP to provide safe, reliable, and cost competitive clean energy to communities across the Intermountain West. The first NuScale Power Module™ will begin generating power in 2029, with the remaining modules coming online for full plant operation by 2030.\nUAMPS formally launched the CFPP in 2015. In August of that year, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $16.6 million in cost-shared funding to NuScale for the preparation of a combined license application (COLA) with UAMPS. In February 2016, the DOE issued a Site Use Permit to UAMPS for the CFPP, which permitted UAMPS to identify and characterize potential locations for licensing and constructing a NuScale plant within the 890-square mile Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in Idaho Falls. The preferred INL site was selected in July 2019. In October 2020, the DOE approved a $1.355 billion multi-year cost-share award to UAMPS to fund the development and construction of the CFPP.\nIn January 2021, UAMPS and NuScale executed agreements to help manage and de-risk the development of the CFPP. Pursuant to the initial orders from UAMPS, Fluor Corporation and NuScale (as a subcontractor to Fluor) are to develop higher maturity cost estimates and initial project planning work for the licensing, manufacturing, and construction of the CFPP. These agreements are an important step in a deployment plan that is expected to result in the order of NuScale Power Modules™ by UAMPS in 2022.\nActivity began in 2020 at the UAMPS CFPP site to support site characterization activities necessary for licensing and construction. These include erection of meteorology towers and the deployment of associated equipment housing, and establishing inclement weather and meeting trailers, parking, and deep bore drilling to support seismic assessment and construction planning. The NuScale plant will also support the water efficiency needs of the UAMPS region by using air instead of water for cooling, cutting water use by more than 90 percent. Read the blog post titled, “A Nuclear Solution for Climate, Energy and Water” by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) that describes dry cooling and the water savings that NuScale power plants offer.\nThe Idaho Policy Institute at Boise State University conducted an economic analysis estimating the increased output (sales), employment, employee compensation, tax revenues, and gross regional product of the NuScale power plant in Idaho. A few of the economic benefits that the plant will provide include:\n- An estimated 1,600 jobs created over the construction period of the plant.\n- Through indirect and induced effects, plant operations will add a total of 667 jobs in the region each year over the estimated 40–to 60-year lifetime of the facility.\n- Plant operations are estimated to increase labor income in the region by nearly $48 million, increase economic output in the region by an estimated $81.15 million, add $2.97 million to local and state tax revenues annually, and add $10.86 million to federal tax revenues annually.\nIn addition to the jobs generated, the supply chain implications are vast: cables, piping, steel, and all the necessary components—representative of million-dollar business opportunities for local and regional manufacturers. The UAMPS CFPP will act as a catalyst for subsequent SMR plant deployments across the U.S., and NuScale is ready to meet the clean energy needs of other states across the country seeking a reliable, safe, and carbon-free power solution that also supports local and regional jobs and economic development.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This article reviews the role of education in promoting economic growth, with a particular focus on the role of educational quality. It concludes that there is strong evidence that the cognitive skills of the population – rather than mere school attainment – are powerfully related to long-run economic growth. The relationship between skills and growth proves extremely robust in empirical applications. The effect of skills is complementary to the quality of economic institutions. Growth simulations reveal that the long-run rewards to educational quality are large but also require patience.\n. [reprinted in Eva Baker, Barry McGaw and Penelope Peterson (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Education (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010), pp. 245-252].", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What good is a UART? Why is it the second thing I get set up? (The first being the ubiquitous blinking light.)Read More\nThis week Andrei explains how to get a UART working using Cube. How to get printf working. And introduces the newlib standard library.\nThis is Andrei's final blog post of 2016, and it'll be useful for your Christmas break project where you learn about ARM processors using CubeMX and ST's Discovery board.Read More\nLast time I explained the basics of what a microcontroller timer is and gave an overview of how timers are configured.\nThis time I’ll walk you through how to configure an MSP430 timer. We’ll use it to blink a light! (By now you’ve probably realized that most embedded system demos involve blinking a light. I’m pretty sure the singularity will look a lot like a rave.)Read More\nThis week, Andrei introduces the UART. A useful data communications peripheral with a long history.\nFollow along as Andrei gives the low down on bits and bauds, hardware handshakes, and inverting buffers.Read More\nThis week, Andrei discusses how our button can be used to generate an interrupt. Other examples include engine management computers. What things should you look out for when using interrupts.\nDon't miss the photo at the bottom of the post for a useful hack.Read More\nThis time, Andrei looks into switches, their bouncy nature, Schmitt triggers, hardware, and software debounce techniques. Join us for a look into the resistors and capacitors leading to port PA0. See oscilloscope traces in black AND white! All of this and more in this embedded.fm blog post!Read More\nThis week Andrei is writing about buttons. First a bunch of the background stuff that goes along with buttons, how the positrons scoot around and finally make it to the processor. Then he takes a look at the HAL code used to read the button position.\nHow hard can it be? Well sit down and get comfortable, this won't hurt a bit (we'll leave the hurting bit for next time, Bwa ha haaaaa).Read More", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The article referenced to three scientists: Tim Janssen, Chin Wu, and Daniel Solli. While Solli \"studies the optical version of rogue waves\" which is unlikely to have true bearing on freaque waves, Janssen and Wu are young active practitioners on wave studies, both are capable of making significant contributions to the freaque wave studies as they clearly recognized the key problem toward a solution: observations. Wu indicated \"We need to identify places where [rogue waves] are more likely to occur!\" And \"Janssen agrees with the need for more direct observations of ocean behavior. 'We can make a theoretical prediction,\" he says. \"But then we have to go out and see if nature agrees.'\" So far that's no more than a pipe dream.\nBut the most interesting part of the article is actually the beginning of the article:\nA near-vertical wall of water in what had been an otherwise placid sea shocked all on board the ocean liner Teutonic—including the crew—on that Sunday in February, more than a century ago.That was an over-a-century old freaque wave story, no one had ever allude about it before. As people tended to regard it as tidal wave (aka tsunami), Fist Officer Barlett was accurately called it a \"giant sea\" at the time. That Ocean Liner was undoubtedly encountered a freaque wave 108 years ago. The author is to be congratulated for uncovering this historical encounter.\n\"It was about 9 o'clock, and [First Officer Bartlett], as he walked the bridge, had not the slightest premonition of the impending danger. The wave came over the bow from nobody seems to know where, and broke in all its fury,\" reported The New York Times on March 1, 1901: \"Many of the passengers were inclined to believe that the wave was the result of volcanic phenomena, or a tidal wave. These opinions were the exception, however, for had the sea been of the tidal order Bartlett would have seen it coming.\" The volcano theory was just as unlikely: \"Absurd, absurd,\" one of the Teutonic's officers told the Times. \"It was a giant sea, and there is no doubt of that.\"\nThe cheering part of the story is of course this:\nOnly two passengers were seriously hurt in the Teutonic incident—one suffered a broken jaw and the other a severed foot.That may be the reason this encounter did not become a major news but it is a somewhat joyous freaque wave story to tell nevertheless -- doesn't matter when or where it happened.\nBy the way here's a picture of Teutonic I found from here:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hosni Mubarak Biography, Life, Interesting Facts\nBirth Place :\nHosni Mubarak is an Egyptian politician who is best known for his lengthy presidency, which ended when the Arab Spring ousted him in 2011.\nEarly Life Before Politics\nHosni Mubarak was born on 4 May 1928 in Kafr El-Meselha, Egypt. Mubarak’s father was a government official who worked for the Egyptian Department of Justice. Mubarak studied in the Egyptian Military Academy and was awarded a Military Sciences degree upon graduation in 1949. After his graduation, Mubarak joined the Egyptian air force. He became a commissioned pilot the following year.\nMubarak worked as an instructor for the academy and following the Suez Crisis and increased Soviet support for Egypt he trained in the Soviet Union. He taught at the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. He returned to Egypt to become commander of the Air Force Academy and was part of the build-up in the Egyptian military before the Yom Kippur War.\nEgyptian Air Force success around the Suez Canal made Hosni Mubarak a hero. He rose to Commander of the Air Force and Deputy Minister for Defence. Following the Yom Kippur War, Mubarak was given the title Air Chief Marshal. The Egyptian military recovered much of its tarnished reputation in the Yom Kippur War, and this was primarily attributed to the Air Force, and Mubarak claimed the lion’s share of the praise.\nHosni Mubarak was appointed Vice President in 1975 by Anwar Sadat. He took charge of building support for the Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement amongst the other countries in the Middle East. Mubarak was able to gain support from many of the Gulf States and other African Muslim countries. Although supportive of early negotiations between Israel and Egypt, Mubarak ultimately opposed the Camp David Accords.\nMubarak had immense power during his time as Vice President and often ruled in Sadat’s absence. Sadat was assassinated by an anti-peace faction in the Egyptian military in 1981. Mubarak, who was wounded during Sadat’s assassination, succeeded him and became President of Egypt. Mubarak used his presidency to restore Egypt’s reputation in the Arab world; it had been shattered following the Camp David Accords.\nIn 1989, Egypt was readmitted to the Arab League under Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak had sent aid to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War but was one of the first to join the American coalition in the Gulf War. The Gulf War proved highly successful for Mubarak and Egypt. The country’s prestige was increased, and over twenty billion dollars of foreign debt was forgiven. Mubarak refused to visit Israel during his time as president, although Egypt continued to have the most cordial relations with Israel of any Arab country.\nEgypt’s warm relations with Israel and Mubarak’s suppression of radical Islam made him the target of numerous assassination plots. One attack in 1995 led to Mubarak having 20,000 suspected Islamists detained. Mubarak was against the Iraq War of 2003 but maintained good relations with the U.S in the hopes of achieving a Palestinian State in Israel. Mubarak set Egypt up as the leading broker between the Palestinian and Israeli camps. Following the outbreak of hostilities in 2008 it was Egypt that brokered peace between Hamas and Israel.\nHosni Mubarak faced widespread dissension against his perceived weakness against Israel. There were also widespread allegations of corruption against the Mubarak regime. Egypt continually fell into the bottom half of world transparency charts. Mubarak faced no opposition candidates in his first four presidential elections, 1981, 1987, 1993, 1999. In 2005, Egypt held contested elections, but some opposition leaders were arrested in the run-up to the election which Mubarak won amidst allegations of rigging.\nHosni Mubarak became embroiled in some scandals involving his wealth. Several Western media sources claimed that Mubarak and his family had an estimated wealth in the billions. These were linked to military contracts, and in February 2011 the Swiss government began freezing accounts linked to Mubarak.\nAlso in 2011, protest against his rule began to spread. Mubarak declared he would not contest the 2011 election. Protests continued until on 10 February 2011 it was announced that Mubarak had resigned. It was the first time that Egypt had a living ex-president. The caretaker government declared it had no opposition to Mubarak being tried on corruption charges.\nHosni Mubarak was placed under house arrest, and his health was reported to be deteriorating. Mubarak was put on trial for premeditated murder in May 2011. He also faced charges of corruption and misrule. He was found guilty of mismanagement and fined thirty-three million dollars. Mubarak pleaded not guilty to murder charges. His ill health meant he was held in a military hospital during the trial.\nMubarak was found guilty in 2012 of the lesser charge of failing to prevent murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The ruling was overturned, and Mubarak was released after a retrial in 2013. In 2014 he faced further trials for embezzlement and was found guilty and sentenced to three years imprisonment. This was again put to a retrial, but was upheld in 2015 and Mubarak was fined sixteen million dollars. On 2 March 2017, Mubarak was acquitted for the third time of the murder of protesters in 2011.\nHosni Mubarak married his wife Suzanne in 1959. The pair has two sons together, Alaa and Gamal. Mubarak’s sons were tried and found guilty of embezzlement along with their father during the trials following the Arab Spring in 2011. They served four-year sentences. Alaa was one of the prominent names listed with offshore accounts in the Panama Papers.\nIn 2010, Hosni Mubarak underwent surgery for stomach cancer in Germany. Reports and rumors mounted about his health following his resignation. It was reported he suffered a heart attack in 2011. Mubarak spent most of his imprisonment in the Cairo military hospital. Even when his sentence was completed Mubarak remained as he was too ill to leave. In 2014 it was reported that Mubarak suffered a broken leg following a fall in hospital.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "WEEK 01 Boundaries\n|Kindergarten||Movement||Boundaries show us where it is safe to play. In sport, boundaries tell us where to play the game. During this lesson you will introduce the concept of boundaries. This basic concept will be the basis for all your movement lessons, establishing where it is safe to move and play.||12 -18 Cones or boundary markers, 24 vinyl spots or place markers, Music, Music player/speaker, Boundary Station Cards, PPT slides, Projector (onto wall)/TV|\n|SHAPE Elementary School GLOs:\nThe students will:\nPROCEDURE WITH TRANSITIONS, MODIFICATIONS AND ACCOMMODATIONS\nTeaching Tips, Assessments & Differentiation Strategies\n|Entrance Routine||1< min||Set up your activity space with the cones and spots as boundaries.|\n|Transition||1 < min||Have the class sit inside a specific area; if possible, a circle or square already marked on the ground. The children should be seated as a group, inside the space (as opposed to sitting around the perimeter of the space or in a long line.) If you are working outside the children should be facing away from the sun when they look at you|\n|Part 1 Warm Up Review||5‐10 min||This is the first week with your students. The focus is on Boundaries. Introduce the safety rule; BE SAFE, and then start exploring the boundaries.\nTeach the safety rule: Play Safe. Explain that it is important to play and move safely so you don’t hurt yourself or anyone else. Safe traveling means you look where you are moving to, keeping, your hands and body to yourself, and lookout for each other . It means looking for spaces to move to where no one else is! Today you will help the children experience safe traveling inside the boundaries, traveling without touching anyone else, and traveling to spaces away from others to be where no one else is. Today’s lesson teaches the children one way to be safe—staying inside the boundaries.\nTo the Children:\n“These pieces of equipment (cones and vinyl spots) form/make the boundaries for our movement class. A boundary marks and shows us where it is safe to work and play. Are you are ready to move inside our boundaries? Let’s try.”\n“When I say go, move safely with me to the boundary over here. (Choose the closest boundary line to begin with.) The boundary line is the limit, when you get to it, stop, even if I don’t say stop. Ready? Go.”\nWalk around the inside of the boundaries with the children, showing them the cones and spots. Ask them to name the colors of the cones and spots and the name of the equipment. Every now and then, point out children to look at their feet, when they are inside the boundary; show the children the relationship of their feet to the boundary. Talk about inside and outside the boundary, consistently staying inside the boundaries. Repeat until you have gone all the way around the boundaries. Be sure to point out that the boundaries each have a specific color. This will help you direct the students to a variety of boundaries in the next part of the lesson.\nAsk the children to move safely to the boundary that you point to and describe by its color, across the activity area. Remind them that the boundary is the limit and when they get there, they are to stop without crossing it. “Ready? Go!” (Move with the children)\nUse the children that stop inside the boundary as examples to show others what to do. Establish that whenever the children are inside the boundaries, it is the safe place to play.\nDo this for every boundary, traveling to each of the six different colored boundaries. Repeat this as many times as needed to ensure the children understand what it means to be inside the boundaries. They will have fun. Keep the focus on safety reminding the children to travel safely, look where they are going and to stay in the boundaries.\nWhere else can you identify boundaries: on a playing field,\non a game board, on the sidewalk and street, sitting at a table with others?\nPrepare to introduce any equipment that is new to the children, and teach or review this vocabulary: boundary, cone, spot and Safe. Always show an item as you talk about it.\nReview the activities moving with the children as you show and tell them what they are to do. Even when it seems like what you are doing is very easy, remember it’s often all new for the children. As you use all the activities during the week or over several weeks, you will reinforce and solidify the concept of boundaries, which is important for all movement activities.Teaching Tip\nThe safety rules need to be experienced to be learned. Reinforce movement that is safe, in the moment, by pointing out children moving and playing safe to the rest of the class.\nTwo examples are:\nChildren traveling and stopping inside the boundaries.\nChildren traveling to open spaces.\nPlace a Boundary card on each cone during the lesson to aid your visual learners.\nHolding up a color spot and naming the color is a good way to reinforce learning colors in the classroom. Collect things around the room that are the same color as a spot and place them on the spot.\nUse the boundary identification time to teach or reinforce color by asking the children to name the color as you lift up the cone or spot. Listen for their answers to identify children who may need more directed practice.\n|Transition||1 < min||Children can stay in the spot they finished in at the end of the last activity.|\n|Part 2 New Skill||10‐20 min||Follow the Leader –\nTraveling through the room space, inside the boundaries, moving from boundary to boundary criss cross and zigzag around inside the boundaries.\n|Transition||1 < min||Continue from where the students finished part 2|\n|Part 3 Practice||5‐15 min||After you have led them around the boundaries for 1 rotation of the song, choose a child to lead as you continue playing. When you stop to pick another leader, announce to the class who the leader is and tell them that you all will follow them to the different boundaries. You don’t need to officially stop the activity. Keep the music playing and just pick a child to be the leader. You can help them by suggesting a color boundary to move to if they cannot think of one. Ask the leader to take you to a new boundary. When you get there, ask another child to be the next leader to take you to another boundary. Keep choosing new leader until everyone has had a go. The children will have traveled to all the boundaries and you will be able to assess each individual’s general understanding of the boundaries, leading and following. Complement the children that switch to the new leader quickly to create that expectation for the whole group. This will be your chance to observe the children more closely and address individual needs.||Teaching Tip\nAs much as possible, encourage the leaders to move across the room from boundary to boundary, as opposed to a circle around the perimeter of the boundaries.Differentiation Strategy\nAfter stopping the children a couple times to change leaders, when you are sure they understand when it’s time to follow a new leader, you can choose new leaders without stopping the movement. Just announce who the new leader is and tell the children to begin following the new leader.\n|Transition||1 < min||Have the children gather near you and the video source.|\n|Part 4 Cool Down||5 min||Review what you covered today, the equipment and the boundaries, follow the leader.\nStretch the legs with three stretches. Begin teaching the children how to stretch properly and that we stretch because exercise actually causes our muscles to shrink! We stretch them to keep them flexible so they aren’t sore. You can even teach your children the names of the muscles as you stretch\n|Additional Part 3 Activities\nIf you teach your children more than once per week, you can use these activities to give your students more opportunities to reinforce the concept and be successful movers. Because this will be a review lesson I refer to it as a “Part 3” lesson. Review the concepts previously taught in part one, or do a fitness activity. After your students are warmed up, begin the part 3 activity to reinforce the concept of Boundaries and practice moving safely within the boundaries.\na. This time in cleaning up the area, have the children place the beanbags and balls on spots that are the same color as the beanbags and balls. Demonstrate how a red beanbag goes on a red spot, etc. After cleaning up the garbage, have the children mess up the area and play again. Remind the children to stay inside the boundaries even when they are putting the beanbags or balls on the spots.\nb. Make it even more fun, don’t wait until the area is all cleaned up before you say, “mess-up” again. Keep alternating, without stopping, the calls of mess up and clean up. Change the amount of time for each activity to keep them listening while they work.\nc. Tell the children this time you are going to call out a number and they will pick up that number of beanbags or balls at a time. Have a student demonstrate with two; grab two items and take them to the boundary spots. Remind them to put the items on spots of the same color. After they have placed all the item(s) on the spots, the children are to stop (freeze) and look at you. Have the children mess up the area using a different number of items. Continue choosing different quantities to use as the children gather garbage to clean or mess up inside the boundaries. Assessment Strategy Use this as a visual assessments for one-to-one correspondence in counting objects\nd. Rainbow/Tornado Talk to the children about Tornados, Hurricanes, or really strong storms. Talk about how they create a big mess and sometimes after a big storm things are thrown all over. Explain that when you mess up the gym during mess-up/Clean-up that it is like a tornado came into the gym. Talk about rainbows and that they come out after a storm and everything looks fresh and clean! That is how the gym looks after we “Clean-up”!\nEstablish and use a number of different ways to divide the class into pairs or small groups. Consider height, age, closest in proximity, hair color or length, clothing colors, equipment colors, etc.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hubbell & Goodwin (2013) found that:\n\"Research shows that we gain not only confidence but also satisfaction\nwhen we achieve goals. When get a correct answer, make an accurate pre-\ndiction, or experience success, our brains are flooded with dopamine, the\nso-called reward molecule that long-distance runner and writer Christopher\nBergland (2011) describes as “the ‘ding, ding, ding’ jackpot feeling you get\nwhen you accomplish a goal” (para. 3). Simply stated, success becomes\naddictive. We seek new opportunities to overcome challenges and hit the\ndopamine jackpot.\" (Page 19)\nAs for setting long-term goals in my classroom, I like to begin by thinking about where I will be ending with each unit. For example, at the beginning of the unit that I am teaching for this course I administered a pre-test to my 3rd grade class about division and multiplication. I then marked the test and gave the students a self-evaluation rubric for them to score themselves with. They scored their key competencies in 1 of 4 different evaluative columns and then used that rubric to set long term goals for where they want to be at the end of the unit. That rubric will be given to them after they take their summative, or post-test, assessment. They will be able to see how they have progressed with their long term goals. Rubrics are incredibly important in fostering student ownership of the curriculum and long term goal setting (Wang, 2017).\nThe personal learning goals that are set for each and every lesson in my 3rd grade classroom are constantly on the whiteboard, either hand written or projected. As one can see from the above picture, one of the scaffolding lessons that I am teaching for the students to be able to realize their long-term goals as per the self-evaluation rubric, has two very clear and understandable learning objectives. The students always know what success looks like, they also know what the learning goals for each lesson are and how to achieve them.\nHubbell, E. R., & Goodwin, B. (2013). The 12 Touchstones of Good Teaching: A Checklist for Staying Focused Every Day. ASCD.\nWang, W. (2017). Using rubrics in student self-assessment: student perceptions in the English as a foreign language writing context. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 42(8), 1280–1292. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2016.1261993\nBenjamin Snitker. A master's candidate at Colorado State University-Global Campus.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We're solving real life maths challenges and inspiring young mathematicians\nMathematics is sometimes invisible to us in our everyday lives, but it plays an essential part in so many areas of society, from architecture to weather forecasting.\nIn the School of Mathematics at UEA, our researchers are firmly committed to using their expertise to tackle real societal challenges. In particular, they are encouraged and supported to develop relationships with industrial partners.\nOur researchers are regular participants at collaborative study groups, including the European Study Groups with Industry and the Mathematics in Medicine Study Groups. These provide fruitful opportunities for industry and academic researchers to work alongside mathematicians and use maths to address real life problems.\nWe also work hard to embrace a wider remit of raising awareness of the importance of maths in today's society and to all our futures and, to that end, we have worked with MP's to deliver briefings on modern mathematics.\nWe are also working with schools and with the general public to inspire people to explore mathematics further and to appreciate its usefulness and relevance.\nHere are just some of the ways in which maths at UEA has had an impact:\nOur work with MPs has led to improved mutual understanding\nAbstract mathematics underpins much of our modern technology and our researchers have been working with UK politicians to make sure this branch of science is properly recognised and invested in.\nA work shadowing project between one of our researchers and a Member of Parliament led to the opportunity for four members of the school to present a number of maths topics to the House of Lords. These included the use of statistics in managerial decisions and how mathematics can influence road planning and predicting travel times. We also addressed the future funding of pure mathematics research.\nOur efforts to influence governmental policy continue and we feel we have succeeded in having an impact on science policy, and have also achieved an improved understanding of what the world outside science might expect from our work.\nWe use mathematics to solve practical challenges\nMathematics can be an indispensable tool for solving large-scale practical problems. Researchers at UEA frequently work with industrial partners to help them address particular issues.\nWe worked with a UK-based company, Structure Flex, that designs water bags used to carry out safety tests on cranes. The company was designing a new 100 tonne bag and wanted to calculate the stresses that would be exerted on the fabric of the bag and its supports when it was filled with water. Our researchers calculated the longitudinal stresses on the bag caused by the supporting slings, and the horizontal stresses caused by the water itself.\nThe company was then able to feed this information into the design process, enabling it to make some crucial changes that would result in a water bag that can withstand the pressure of 100 tonnes of water.\nOur work can have an impact on aircraft safety\nThe effect that ice can have on aircraft safety is well known: if ice builds up on an aeroplane's wings, for example, it can affect lift and control and lead to accidents. Existing trusted models used to predict ice formation on aircraft have not managed to take in to account the behaviour of the water droplets and how the splashing of the droplet hitting the aircraft affects how the ice is formed.\nThe School of Mathematics has been working with aircraft icing specialists AeroTex UK. The company develops icing prediction codes and helps to design and certify ice protection systems. Our researchers have helped AeroTex UK to better understand the physics of large droplet impacts and splashing and how that might affect ice formation, particularly on the wings of aeroplanes.\nAeroTex has been able to use these insights to inform its icing prediction software, ultimately leading to improved aircraft safety.\nMathematics can help tame the sea!\nWe've used some sophisticated modelling techniques to predict the behaviour of harbour waves. This work has enabled us to help coastal engineers design and repair sea walls and has been applied to a number of industrial projects.\nOur work with industrial partners has also enabled companies to improve their safety and risk estimates. A project with the consulting engineers Charles Scott and Partners, for example, led to an improved design of particular structures that needed to be able to withstand wave impacts.\nOur researchers were part of an EPSRC-funded project looking at particular problems in the design and building of sea walls and harbours. This has led to a productive partnership with the leading coastal engineering consultants, HR Wallingford Ltd, through which we have been able to ensure that other aspects of our work on wave impact have a route to commercial exploitation.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What is alopecia caused by?\nWhat causes alopecia areata? Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease. This means that your immune system mistakenly attacks a part of your body. When you have alopecia areata, cells in your immune system surround and attack your hair follicles (the part of your body that makes hair).\nIs alopecia a Greek word?\nThe word “alopecia” comes from the Greek “alopex” for “fox.”\nIs alopecia serious?\nAlopecia areata isn’t usually a serious medical condition, but it can cause a lot of anxiety and sadness. Support groups are out there to help you deal with the psychological effects of the condition. If you lose all your hair, it could grow back.\nWhat are the three most common types of alopecia?\nMost people know alopecia to be a form of hair loss. However, what they don’t always know is that there are three main types of the condition – alopecia areata, alopecia totalis and alopecia universalis.\nWhat does alopecia mean in Greek?\nAlopecia is a condition that causes hair loss and baldness. … Extreme forms of alopecia can result in loss of body hair as well. The Greek root of the word is alōpekia, literally “fox mange,” from alōpēx, “fox.”\nCan alopecia go away on its own?\nAlopecia areata (AA) causes hair loss in small, round patches that may go away on their own, or may last for many years. Nearly 2% of the U.S. population (about four million people) will develop AA in their lifetime.\nDoes stress cause alopecia?\nA variety of factors are thought to cause alopecia areata (al-o-PEE-she-uh ar-e-A-tuh), possibly including severe stress. With alopecia areata, the body’s immune system attacks the hair follicles — causing hair loss.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:\nRust and smut fungi of Hawai'i: an annotated host index on angiosperms and ferns\n|Title:||Rust and smut fungi of Hawai'i: an annotated host index on angiosperms and ferns|\n|Authors:||Gardner, Donald E.|\n|LC Subject Headings:||Angiosperms -- Diseases and pests -- Hawaii.|\nFerns -- Diseases and pests -- Hawaii.\nRust fungi -- Host plants -- Hawaii.\nSmut fungi -- Host plants -- Hawaii.\n|Issue Date:||Mar 1996|\n|Publisher:||Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Botany|\n|Citation:||Gardner DE. 1996. Rust and smut fungi of Hawai'i: an annotated host index on angiosperms and ferns. Honolulu (HI): Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Botany. PCSU Technical Report, 100.|\n|Series/Report no.:||Technical Report|\n|Abstract:||Rust and smut fungi are well-defined groups of plant pathogens. These groups generally are considered to be closely allied with one another and therefore are frequently discussed together. Both groups of fungi are known to cause major crop diseases and are well known throughout the world from the standpoint of their economic significance. These fungi occur on hosts of a variety of plant families in Hawai'i, most introduced from elsewhere, probably arriving with their hosts rather than separately via wind-borne spores. However, some species occur as apparent endemic or indigenous forms on hosts native to the Islands. Members of the grass family (Poaceae) are the most frequent hosts of both the rusts and the smuts. The rust fungi typically infect vegetative plant parts, that is, leaves and stems, where they produce abnormal growths such as witches'-brooms, galls, or raised, sporulating pustules. Because of the virulence and host specificity characteristic of the rusts in general, these fungi have received particular attention in weed biocontrol studies. The smut fungi, with some exceptions, infect reproductive parts, often destroying normal fruit and seeds and replacing these structures with masses of fungal spores. Occurrence of smut infections on economic grain crops can cause complete loss of the crop by destroying the grain kernels, while leaving the vegetative parts of the plant intact. Such severe economic losses associated with rusts and smuts are quite rare in Hawai'i, however. Endemic rusts provide interesting examples of the unusual development well known among other categories of organisms that have evolved in isolated insular systems.|\n|Description:||Reports were scanned in black and white at a resolution of 600 dots per inch and were converted to text using Adobe Paper Capture Plug-in.|\n|Sponsor:||National Park Service Cooperative Agreements 1445 CA 09 94 1006 Subag. 2 & 3 NPS CA 9016 2 9004|\n|Appears in Collections:||Hawaii's Ferns and Fern Allies (Lycophytes) Collection|\nThe PCSU and HPI-CESU Technical Reports 1974 - current\nItems in ScholarSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I have been enjoying the program on ABC called “Redesign my Brain” . If you are not familiar with it, each week Todd Sampson ( Gruen Transfer) uses different brain training exercises to help rewire his brain. Last week fascinated me because he was looking at creativity and “Can we change our mindsets so that they are less fixed?” In my subject of Design Technology, I am constantly trying to work with students on creating designs that not only display the skill set we have been learning but also stretch them in the creativity realm.\nWith this program in mind , I stepped out of my comfort zone and ran two different lessons with two different classes using some of the tests in the program. Yesterday I ran the mousetrap brief, whereby the students had to create a mousetrap powered car using materials provided. Pairs were chosen randomly and they were given no clues and 60 minutes to construct their design.\nI found that the students worked well for the first 15 mins but when they couldn’t make what their brains wanted them to, they became distracted. They struggled to move their thinking outside of the initial design and to compensate a range of behaviours were displayed. Materials were destroyed, some students zoned out and did other things, others sat and read a book , complaints happened like – “I don’t get this” or “this is stupid”. Those who struggled tendered to disturb those who were focussed and when the countdown to the time finishing began some students destroyed their creations rather than show them to the others as “failures”. I showed a snippet of the show at the end to summarise the lesson. I then put two scenarios to them – say I had videoed the session and sent it home to their parents, how would that have changed their work ethic? and secondly, if the last 60 mins. work was now the only grade for the semester, how would that change the way they worked? In both instances they said they would have been more focussed and work harder for a result. I then was able to talk about what drives their learning and how self motivation , self-discipline should be at the core of them as a learner.\nToday I changed tack a little. I still randomly chosen the pairs but I used the program as a teaching tool. I would give them a challenge – lets say – “how many uses for a water bottle can you think of?” One of the pair scribed as the other said their answers. We the counted the answers and the one with the highest number got a chocolate.I would then show them a clip from the program and Todd’s answers. Each time they were given the opportunity to reflect on the test and their results. I then did the mousetrap brief but they didn’t produce it, they just drew it. The kids loved this lesson , they were switched on and when we went back to designing their workshop projects they began to look more creatively at the problem.\nWhat did I learn?\n1) sometimes what you think is going to happen doesn’t and as a teacher I need to be prepared for that. With the first group I wasn’t expecting to have a conversation about self-discipline but I did and I found that to be a real good outcome.\n2) I need to be more aware of developing kids minds. Not having a fixed mindset as a teacher is the first step in allowing the kids to do the same.\n3) Doing new things is okay – you aren’t going to break anyone. I achieved more in terms of learning ( mine and the kids) in the past two days than if they had stayed with the normal program.\n4) some kids don’t get it , but they will. We all are different and that’s okay.\n5) sometimes there is a gap between what I can draw and what skills I have to make it. The first group were increasingly frustrated by the trickiness of making the car – and eventually some gave up. The second group didnt have this constraint and could freely design, not knowing or caring if they could make it or not. How do I help bridge the skills gap or do I need to ?\n6) do we short change our students. They are interested in knowing how they think – why don’t we spend more time helping them understand?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The following instructional materials consist of a series of stand alone lessons aimed at middle school students\nincluding their lesson plans, handouts, and technology links. Within the table, the icons indicate additional and related materials included\nwith each lesson plan. Teachers can pick and choose from the lessons to create a customized mini-unit of instruction that uses earthquake\nengineering design to integrate science, mathematics, and technology. The tables on the right show the emphases and support materials for each lesson.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Dental implants are tooth root replacements. These implants provide a firm foundation to the existing tooth structure. These implants have many advantages namely improves speech, more comfort etc. Dental implants have relatively high success rates if they are of good quality.\nDental implant procedures are mostly done under local anesthesia. Placing dental implants is commonly performed through a 3 staged process. In the first process, the implant flush is surgically buried with the bone, underneath the gum. Such a process shall facilitate in a more proper healing process. However, the implant has to be exposed surgically after the healing process. The surgeon then checks whether the implant have been successfully integrated or not. He then connects a sort of post that penetrated into the mouth through the gum. The process is referred to as abutment. Different forms of abutment exist in market. For preparing for the final restorative stage, the dentist uses a cuff through which the dentist accesses the implant. The abutment can be placed at the same time of placing the implant. The method is advantageous over the fact that there is no need of a second surgery. However, healing time should be sufficient in this process also. During the healing time, the abutments must be protected from chewing forces.\nThis surgery can also be performed in a single stage. In this surgery, a one-piece implant is placed so that its metal collar protrudes through the gum. After the healing, the abutment can be properly connected to the implant. The crown can then be fabricated to replace the missing tooth. The success rates of both these surgeries are almost the same.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "By Sarah Moore on June 21, 2017\nDeveloping upstream solutions to social problems is more effective than scrambling to apply reactive remedies downstream. Whether you call it prevention or “nippin’ it in the bud,” looking upstream leads to more lasting impact for more people. That’s why changemakers in community health view policy, systems, and environmental change strategies as the most promising approaches to ensuring health and well-being for all.\nUnfortunately, most of the American public embraces a long-enduring concept that makes these strategies harder to implement: individualism.\nIn a functioning democracy, the public drives decisions made by “gatekeepers” who have the power to rewrite policies; alter, create, or dismantle systems; and reshape natural, built, and social environments. In messaging briefs from the FrameWorks Institute, a leader in multi-disciplinary communications research, the organization highlights how the public’s individualistic reference frames can stall advocacy and communications efforts around a broad range of issues that affect health.\nThis recurring theme of individualism looks remarkably similar across a spectrum of health-impacting social issues. And to re-frame individualistic messages, we first need to know what they sound like. Consider these examples:\nAlthough healthy aging is influenced by a range of social policies and environmental structures that affect entire communities, like income and tax policy, housing, street design, transportation patterns, and access to healthcare, the public believes that health and financial security in older age are the result of individuals’ choices and preparation.\nEarly childhood experiences help lay the foundation for good health later in life, and those experiences are shaped by complex social and cultural interactions. However, most narratives focus on parental responsibility, crime prevention, and safety. This emphasis on individuals increases the focus on parents’ mistakes and de-emphasizes communities’ influence on how children interact with the world.\nHigh-quality education not only leads to better jobs, higher incomes, and longer, healthier lives, but educational settings also directly affect the health of children and young adults through policies that influence diet, exercise, discipline, and mental and physical health. The public, however, sees education in terms of three types of individuals: students, parents, and teachers. FrameWorks explains that this view “crowd[s] out their ability to consider the equally important roles that school boards, taxpayers, superintendents, principals and other policymakers play in creating, maintaining and reforming education.”\nAlthough the public acknowledges that natural, built, and social environments affect our health in profound ways, environmental health is often conflated with healthcare. This causes people to focus on individual doctors’ and patients’ responsibility to reverse poor health outcomes that may be the result of the condition of our environments. This reduces appreciation and support for the work of organizations which ensure that our air, water, food, and buildings are free of contaminants that impact the health of entire communities.\nThe dominant narrative in America is that economic success and failure are tied to personal choice and determination. When thinking this way, people assume that the playing field is already level and that being poor is the result of bad choices. This view reduces public support to address economic policies, legal systems, institutional racism, and other factors that contribute to economic inequality and health disparities.\nDiet is a leading contributor to chronic disease across the country, but the public still views this as an issue of personal choice rather than a public health problem. By viewing healthy food as a luxury consumer item rather than a human right, attempts to improve the food system are challenged by claims that the problem is a free market issue with no role for government or policy solutions.\nExperts understand that access to nature is a boon to public health because it increases opportunities to be physically active, improves air quality, and can reduce stress, among other benefits. However, the public thinks about health outcomes primarily at the individual level. This means that people may not see a benefit to supporting parks for others in their community if that park is not close to them personally.\nEven when it comes to race, the majority of Americans still do not see racism as a systemic or structural problem, but rather as something that lies within individual people. That view obstructs the implementation of effective reforms to address inequity.\nPeople view the world through a multitude of frames, of which individualism is only one. The key to reframing messages is to tap in to alternative ways of thinking that are also widely held, and placing emphasis there.\nWhile the “right” messaging frames will shift depending on our audience and the problem we’re trying to solve, it’s clear that focusing on individual behavior change—both in our messages and as a goal—is ineffective in the long run. It’s time to reframe our thinking. Our nation’s health depends on it.\nFor additional reading, FrameWorks Institute resources are linked for each issue area listed above. The resources outline research methods, key findings, and guidance for more effective messaging.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "SOUTH HADLEY – Deep in the archives of Mount Holyoke College, Thanksgiving in the 1800s comes to life in the letters and diaries of young women who were students at the college some 160 years ago.\nThanksgiving back then was an even bigger celebration than Christmas, says Patricia J. Albright, archives librarian Mount Holyoke.\nAnd, the accounts of the holiday as once observed in this college town are as fresh and lively as if they had been written yesterday.\nAlbright studied them as part of her research for “Table for 10: The Art, History and Science of Food,” a series of exhibits and programs currently in museums and colleges across the Pioneer Valley.\nThe food and decorations for Thanksgiving in the mid-1800s may sound familiar, but imagine them multiplied to the nth degree – in an age with no electricity, no refrigeration and no central heating.\nAnd, in the 1800s, Mount Holyoke College invited all of South Hadley to its Thanksgiving celebrations.\n“The amount of labor involved was immense,” said Albright, “and the preparations started the week before.”\nA student named Lucy Fletcher described in her journal how girls were “stoning raisins,” making cranberry sauce, beating eggs for cakes, and making pies and puddings for Thanksgiving.\nIn those days, Albright explained, the cooking and other domestic tasks were done by the students themselves. Founder Mary Lyon, whose mission was to make higher education accessible to middle-class girls, found that such a system kept the tuition affordable.\nFletcher’s 1843 account also includes a charming description of how the formidable Lyon threw herself into “superintending” the Thanksgiving effort, “hurrying, running, hastening, and flying about, seeming hardly to know what she was about.”\nThe following year, Katharine Van Vechten wrote to her mother that that she feasted on a Thanksgiving dinner of roasted turkeys and chickens, cranberry sauce, squash, stewed apples, a “delightful squash pie flavored with lemon,” and tapioca pudding.\n“None of us complained of hunger,” the young woman joked to her mom.\nAnother student, Melissa Usher, described in 1852 the extravagant decorations that were made for the Thanksgiving holiday. They included not only evergreen wreaths, bouquets of paper flowers, candles and lanterns, but a miniature landscape the size of a table, complete with a cottage surrounded by moss and a brook made from a “looking glass.”\nEven the teachers’ desks were festooned with evergreens, Usher wrote.\nAfter the big dinner, some of the girls would dress up for an evening of piano music and refreshments.\n“The old scholars practiced calisthenics, accompanied by singing, and it was very amusing to see them,” Rhoda Perkins wrote to her aunt in 1842.\nSo did Mount Holyoke’s most famous student of that era have Thanksgiving dinner in South Hadley?\nNo, says Albright.\nSince Emily Dickinson had family living close by in Amherst, she would have been one of the students who went home for the holiday.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "While a 24-hour virus can cause symptoms of nausea, stomachaches, and a fever; pancreatitis can offer these similar signs as well. Acute and chronic pancreatitis is generally a condition that affects adults; however, children can develop the illness as well, although it is less frequent.\nCauses Of Pancreatitis In Children\nPancreatitis occurs when the pancreas becomes inflamed. While the main factors for this condition in adults includes gallstones and excessive alcohol consumption, the reason it occurs in children is only known half of the time. Acute pancreatitis, pancreas inflammation that is short-lived and comes on quickly, can develop in children due to a viral infection, medications, or trauma; meanwhile, chronic pancreatitis, which is ongoing pancreas inflammation, might occur in kids due to congenital abnormalities within their body’s pancreatic duct or genetic defects. While it is uncommon, two genetic defects linked to the condition in children include: trypsin and cystic fibrosis.\nSigns & Symptoms In Children\nShould your child complain of constant upper stomach pains – often to the left in the middle, and at times a consistent pain in the back – this could provide a signal that your kiddo is dealing with much more than just a stomachache or the flu. Pancreatitis can be very painful for kids, and this intense discomfort will be accompanied by vomiting and/or nausea. It’s important to note that diarrhea is not a symptom of pancreatitis.\nDiagnosis & Treatment\nThe harsh reality is this illness can be very challenging to diagnose; however, blood tests can be conducted and offer an insight as to whether or not your child has pancreatitis. An ultrasound is sometimes used as well, and depending on the circumstances, a CT scan or MRI could be offered to make the determination.\nOnce diagnosed, a doctor may refer you to a pediatric gastroenterologist to help with treatment options. If your child is dealing with acute pancreatitis, pain management strategies will be sought, as well as the rest of the pancreas to correct fluid loss via avoiding an oral diet. Once your child’s nausea and pain gets better, a feeding tube might be used, or oral nutrition might be re-introduced. If pancreatitis flare ups become more frequent, a low-fat diet may be suggested to decrease recurrence.\nCleveland Clinic reported that if attacks occur more frequently, the pain just may be too unbearable for your child to deal with. As such, intense therapies including pancreas removal and injection of a pediatric patient’s own insulin-making cells will be taken from their pancreas and placed to their liver to help.\nThe key to diagnosis and treatment is being tuned into your child’s symptoms, as early on as possible.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "College is an important process for students because it determines their future career; most students take their studies seriously, while others engage in numerous activities that might affect their studies. College can be challenging for students who work part-time to cater for their expenses. Keeping up with college life can be difficult because of these numerous engagements, and lack the motivation to study and complete important tasks might affect students’ performance.\nWhen students feel overwhelmed, they procrastinate important tasks until a point that requires them to act or face severe consequences. Usually, at some point students feel frustrated and end up ignoring unpleasant tasks which are important, and engaging in less stressful activities that are easy and enjoyable; this is commonly termed as procrastination. Procrastination is a problem we all face at one point in our lives, at times we struggle to complete certain tasks and end up postponing it until we cannot avoid doing it.\nAt times, we find ourselves reading the same book over and over again, yet we have loads of work to complete. Procrastination is caused by several reasons; some students fear to make mistakes and would prefer postponing the task than doing the wrong thing. To overcome this habit, below are 5 Tips from Essay Zoo team, that you can adopt to stop procrastinating important tasks and focus on your studies.\nTo complete bigger projects or assignments that at times can be challenging requires setting specific times and deadlines .You can handle bigger tasks by breaking down the assignments into small bits before focusing on each section of the assignment. When you set specific targets, you can achieve more than you expect. For example, if you have to come up with a 5,000-word essay within one week, you don’t have to panic. The best approach is to separate the work into small chunks and set specific times to complete each part every day until the last day of the week.\nCompleting each section before going to the next part will minimize the anxiety of seeing the task to be huge. When you divide the tasks into smaller part, it will be easier to manage and also help you utilize the little time you have wisely. Setting deadlines both on short-term or long-term basis will create a sense of urgency on the task. When you manage to meet the set deadline, you will feel motivated to complete the other parts of the assignment.\nIf you want to be more organized within the week, develop a specific strategy of allocating specific time for different activities. For example, allocate one-third of your time on school assignments, with the other one third on tasks that motivates you to study and the remaining other one third should be for resting. This is an important rule that helps you set specific limits enabling you to spend time wisely.\nWork when you are most productive\nMost people assume that waking up early in the morning is the best time to be productive; there are other times during the day that you can still be productive. You can start working during the day and finishing a portion of your work later in the evening. Instead of falling asleep the whole day having worked late at night, or having woken up very early in the morning, it’s better you sleep for more hours in order to stay active for a long time during the day. It’s upon you to identify the best time when you can work effectively, whether it’s in the morning or late in the afternoon through evening. The most important factor is to utilize your time wisely and avoid procrastination.\nAvoid stressing yourself by worrying too much about what you have not achieved, instead try to be realistic, even if you have allot of work ahead of you, the fact that you the managed to complete a small section you should reward yourself. You are capable of doing much more than you can imagine so long as you find the right motivation to push you, especially when you feel discouraged. One of the motivation strategies is to look at the end product instead of complaining about the huge task ahead.\nWhen studying has some water and healthy snacks like peanuts or fruits to keep you going. Set specific goals to be achieved in your study sessions, and after meeting your goals, reward yourself by engaging in various activities like playing games, talking to friends or listen to your favorite music.\nMany people fail to find the right motivation to help them study; some prefer listening to music while studying or studying with friends. All these can be destructive, even if it will be fun hanging around people you like. When it comes to studying, you need undivided attention. The most important tip that can help you avoid procrastination, is to remove all the distractions and focusing on the task ahead. Gadgets like cell phones and computers might distract your attention, its advisable to keep your phone on silent mode and keep them somewhere out of your view so that you cannot be tempted to use them in the middle of your study sessions.\nGetting adequate rest after studies have been undervalued, but is a crucial part of learning, however, students believe that when they stay up late cramming for exams they are likely to get better scores. Resting especially at night is important for all the body functions. Our memories and learning processes are consolidated when we rest at night. Therefore, sleep does not only strengthen our memories, sleep enables us to prioritize memories, breaking them into sections and organizing them based on their emotional importance.\nEssentially, the more we learn, the more we need to rest to succeed in school. Although everyone procrastinates at some point, some make it a habit that eventually affects their learning process. Procrastination can easily be eliminated when you follow the above tips to help stay active throughout your studies.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "home > archive > 2004 > this article\nPresident's Council on Sustainable Freedom\nBy Henry Lamb\nPerhaps the best thing that George W. Bush can do for the country, and for his presidency, is to take a leaf from Bill Clinton's playbook, and issue an executive order to create the President's Council on Sustainable Freedom.\nBill Clinton created a President's Council on Sustainable Development, which operated from 1993 to 1999. Its influence continues to permeate virtually every agency of government at every level. The purpose of Clinton's Council was to analyze existing legislation and regulations to find ways to implement the recommendations contained in the U.N.'s Agenda 21.\nThe purpose of George Bush's Council on Sustainable Freedom should be to analyze existing legislation and regulations to find ways to implement the principles of freedom set forth in the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence.\nClinton appointed Cabinet Secretaries, chief executives from environmental organizations, and a handful of executives of industry (but only friendly executives, such as Ken Lay from ENRON). George Bush should appoint Cabinet Secretaries, chief executives from property rights and resource use organizations, elected officials from state and local government, and ordinary business people.\nClinton's Council was financed by donations from huge foundations, supplemented by staff from the various agencies. Bush's Council should welcome private donations, supplemented by staff from the various agencies. Clinton's Council operated for seven years; Bush's Council should sunset after five years.\nEnvironmental organizations and Democrats would howl and scream, claiming that the project is unnecessary, and caters to right-wing extremists. Bush should ignore the noise, just as Bill Clinton ignored the protests from property rights and resource use advocates in 1993.\nNo one can deny that America's freedoms have been systematically eroded by government, in recent years. Since the first purpose of government is to protect America's freedom, it is a perfectly legitimate function of government to analyze, and to correct the laws and regulations that are eroding those freedoms.\nMany of the laws and regulations that have been enacted were designed to benefit society, in one way or another, with little or no thought about the possible negative impact on fundamental freedom guaranteed to every American by the Constitution. The Endangered Species Act, for example, was designed to benefit society by protecting the Bald Eagle, and a few other species thought to be on the brink of extinction.\nOver the years, however, this law, and its attendant regulations, has elevated the status of nearly 2000 species of weeds and bugs, above the right of a land owner to plant a crop. Laws written to confiscate the assets of criminals, are now being used to confiscate property of un-convicted suspects, and sold to finance law enforcement agencies.\nCongress has been unable, or unwilling, to stop the proliferation of these laws and regulations, and there is little evidence of sensitivity to the growing problem, except by a handful of legislators.\nMuch, if not most, of the problem arises from the rules promulgated to implement the laws adopted by Congress. At a meeting of the President's Council on Sustainable Development, the Secretary of Commerce reported the he could implement 67 of the Agenda 21 recommendations by changing the rules of existing legislation.\nAn honest analysis, aided by independent individuals who are affected by the rules and regulations, would likely reveal that the principles of freedom could be advanced by changes in the rules of implementation. Honest analysis, and an effective response, cannot occur without strong leadership. Bill Clinton provided that leadership for those whose goal was to advance Agenda 21 in American policy. George Bush can provide the leadership, and the opportunity, for those who wish to advance the principles of freedom.\nUnless some dramatic action is taken to preserve and apply the principles of freedom in public policy, freedom cannot be sustained. Individual freedom is the defining characteristic of America, and the power that made the nation great. Without that freedom, America will continue to drift toward the socialist goals of Agenda 21, and to the ultimate goal of a world governed by the consensus of international socialists who believe that government, not God, is the grantor of human rights and freedoms.\nGeorge Bush would do well to create a President's Council on Sustainable Freedom, and thereby declare his commitment to advancing the principles of freedom at home, as well as around the world.\nGet weekly updates about new issues of ESR!\n© 1996-2013, Enter Stage Right and/or its creators. All rights reserved.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Jewish Communities of Romania: Charts of Survivors of Transnistria and German Concentration Camps\nThis folder contains two sets of charts. One set was created in Radăuți in December of 1945 and contains the names of individuals returned from the U.S.S.R. (ie. Transnistria) who received assistance from the Red Cross with the help of the Joint. The charts include names, birth place and date, gender, occupation, frontier entry point, and items received (garments) and the recipient's signature. The other set of documents is from Șimleul-Silvaniei, also dated 1945, and records names of those who returned from German concentration camps. Charts include names, name of the mother, place and date of birth, occupation, camp from which they returned, last place of residence prior to deportation, marriage status, and other comments (often tattoo number). These charts were created by the Jewish community of Șimleul-Silvaniei (technically here called Democratic Jewish Group - Gruparea Democratică a Evreilor).\nRed Cross; Șimleul Silvaniei Jewish Democratic Group", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Birch tree, belonging to the genus Betula, is renowned for its graceful habit, distinctive bark, and airy foliage.\nHabit: Generally, birch trees have a slender, upright or pendulous habit with a crown that can be pyramidal to oval-shaped. The paper-thin layers of bark that often peel away in scrolls are one of the tree’s defining characteristics.\nHardiness: Birch trees generally thrive in USDA hardiness zones 2 to 9, depending on the species. They prefer colder climates and may struggle in areas with hot, dry summers.\nFoliage: The foliage of birch trees consists of simple, alternate leaves that are often triangular or egg-shaped, with serrated margins. The leaves are usually a vibrant green, turning golden-yellow in the fall.\nFlowers and Bloom Time: Birches are monoecious, meaning they produce both male and female flowers on the same tree. These flowers are called catkins and typically bloom in late winter to early spring. The male catkins are long and droop down, while the female catkins are shorter and stand upright.\nUses: Birch trees offer stunning landscape appeal with their slender, graceful habit and iconic bark. They make excellent focal points and are ideal for woodland or naturalistic settings. Beyond their aesthetic appeal, birch trees are commercially important for timber and the sap is often used to make birch syrup. The wood is light but strong, and it’s often used for furniture, plywood, and pulpwood. Birch is also used in traditional medicine and the flexible bark can be used for crafting.\nBenefits: Birch trees are excellent for soil stabilization and provide food and habitat for various wildlife, including birds and small mammals. They also serve as host plants for several species of butterflies, enriching the local biodiversity. Birch leaves create a light, dappled shade, allowing understory plants to thrive.\nThe birch is more than just a pretty tree; it’s a hardy species with various uses and benefits that make it an excellent choice for any garden or larger landscape.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Luis’ son Ramiro had recently found himself in trouble and a contract was put out on him (S.O.S. meaning smash on sight).\nAnswers 1Add Yours\nAfter spending a few months in a psychiatric hospital, Ramiro was put in an educational/ employment plan. Luis implemented a hands on approach, in order to make sure Ramiro's teenage years gave him a sense of empowerment, but just as importantly.... an education. He wanted him to have \"complete literacy: The ability to participate competently and confidently in any level of society one chooses.\"", "label": "No"}
{"text": "BRITISH DRILL RIFLES\nThe British modified several models of the SMLE as well as the Pattern 14 to make drill rifles. There were different approaches to these conversions but the illustrations shown below are typical. All of these rifles are marked with a prominent DP (drill practice) somewhere on the rifle. It is uncertain how many of these drill rifles were produced but a considerable number have surfaced in this country.\nThe U.K. NRA Historic Arms Resource Center has an outstanding web site that has information on Drill and Training rifles as well as a broad range of related items. I highly recommend this site. http://www.rifleman.org.uk.\nBritish Home Guard\nIn 1939, Winston Churchill called for 500,000 men over 40 to form a Home Guard to defend against an expected invasion by the German army. There was a great response and it soon became apparent that some formal organizational structure would be needed. In May of 1940, the Home Guard was renamed the Local Defense Volunteers and placed under government control. By July of 1940, the organization had 1.5 million volunteers. The members “stood down” in late 1944 when the threat of invasion was over.\nThey performed a variety of duties relating to coastal defense, aircraft spotters, and air raid wardens. Initially, they were unarmed and drilled with broom sticks, personal shotguns, or wooden rifles. These wooden rifles were locally produced and had no standard pattern and few refinements. The official British arm of that period was the SMLE. The wooden drill rifles would have been generally patterned after this rifle or the earlier Pattern 14 Enfield. There are earlier examples of wooden drill rifles that were used by the British Army at the start of WWI and some of these may well have been resurrected for use by the Home Guard. These drill rifles can be viewed on the Imperial War Museum web site under “catalogue number” 11580 and 11581.\nThe photograph is of a group of Home Guard members drilling. This was photo was probably taken early in 1940. It should be noted that they are wearing Home Guard arm bands and carrying wooden drill rifles similar to the Pattern 14 Enfield. Eventually they were issued simple uniforms and armed with obsolete military rifles.\nThe drill rifle shown is a replica of the rifles that they are carrying.\nThis photograph is from a post card. It is of a Young Soldier unit of the Hampshire Regiment of the British Army during WWI. It is interesting to note that they are all carrying some form of dummy training rifles which appear to be made entirely of wood. The guns are very light in color and if they had any blued metal parts they would have shown as dark areas in the photograph. It is impossible to determine much detail from this small photo but the shape does not appear to be similar to the any of the military arms the British used during this time period. The photo clearly shows that all of the guns are identical, which would indicate that they had been produced in some quantity.\nFrom the paper, Non-Firing Drill and Training Rifles, by By Malcolm MacPherson\nThe next installment: The US Portable Building Corporation", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Humans have been wearing clothes for millennia. Every piece of clothing for the history of mankind has been worn, washed, and ultimately thrown away. Some may get reused by others for a while, but until today, all clothing has eventually become trash.\nWhen they say “recycling”, this is a recycling process like paper and steel, with old cotton clothing broken down back into fiber, respun into thread, rewoven into fabric, dyed, cut, sewed, and for jeans, riveted.\n“This first prototype represents a major advancement in apparel innovation. We have the potential to reduce by 98 percent the water that would otherwise be needed to grow virgin cotton while giving multiple lives to each garment,” said Paul Dillinger, head of global product innovation at Levi Strauss & Co. “Although early days, this technology holds great promise and is an exciting advancement as we explore the use of regenerated cotton to help significantly reduce our overall impact on the planet.”\n“LS&Co. was the perfect first partner for us to demonstrate our technology and capability as they are an iconic American company with a product that’s recognized around the world,” says Evrnu CEO Stacy Flynn. “Our aspiration is to build a pair of Levi’s jeans that are just as beautiful and strong as the original and we’re making great progress toward that goal.”\nHere at Fledge, we talk a lot about companies that truly change the world. We are incredibly proud to call Evrnu one of our fledglings. One of many examples of companies that are doing good, by doing business.\nUPDATE: Days after this big news, Evrnu was awarded as a global changemaker by Fabric of Change. The follow short video includes Evrnu and two other breakthrough innovators:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "2015 World Hypertension Day – Have your BP measured and eat less salt\nEvery year since 2005, May 17th is celebrated as World Hypertension Day to raise public awareness about high blood pressure around the world. This year, the theme is ‘Know your Numbers'.\nHypertension is a leading risk factor associated with life threatening diseases such as stroke, heart attack and kidney disease. In China, 270 million people suffer from hypertension, or high blood pressure, with excessive salt consumption being directly linked to these numbers. Many people are unaware of this health problem.\nTo enhance people’s awareness of how high blood pressure can affect your health, The George Institute for Global Health at Peking University Health Science Center, hosted an event at the lobby of its office building to help people who worked in the same building increase their awareness of hypertension by measuring their blood pressure. Event volunteers also distributed a low-sodium salt substitute in a special-designed amount-controlled container to call for a less salty diet.\n“World Hypertension Day is a great opportunity for people to become aware of their own blood pressure but also to highlight the issue of elevated blood pressure to their colleagues, friends or families,” said Dr. Maoyi Tian, Senior Research Fellow at The Institute.\n“I’m very happy to attend this event and learn that my blood pressure is at a normal level,” said a lady who participated in the World Hypertension Day event.\n“I know that salty food may cause hypertension, but sometimes it’s hard to know how much salt you actually eat. I really like this salt substitute container, each time you press it, you’ll get an accurate 1 gram of low sodium salt. I think it will definitely help reduce salt intake in my diet and I’ll also persuade my parents to eat less salt.”\nProfessor Bruce Neal, Senior Director of the Food Policy Division at The George Institute for Global Health, said that it was great to see so many people come to have their blood pressure measured.\n“It’s great, but what we really want is not for people just have their blood pressure measured but actually make some changes.\n“For people working in the office, they can think a little bit more carefully about what they eat and perhaps choose less salty food. If they are overweight, perhaps something with fewer calories; and if you can walk up stairs, that’s a good way to get your blood pressure down and stay a little bit healthier,” Professor Neal said.\nMs. Ruth Song, Finance Manager at The Institute, was one of the organizers of the event. She expressed her gratitude to all the staff who participated and contributed to the event.\n“Celebrating this international event with all George Institute and George Clinical colleagues is a great and happy thing to do. We’ll throw more events in the future to promote our expertise in the field of public health to raise awareness around important public health issues.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The more you practice using these strategies, the better you will become at quickly finding significance in the documents. Your AP history textbook may also have documents with questions that you can use to practice. All of the history exams share a DBQ rubric, so the guidelines are identical.\nOkay, so maybe that is a little dramatic. Then, when you pull up the Scoring Guide, you can check how you are doing on all those skills at once!\nAre you only two thirds of the way through your essay when 40 minutes have passed? Check your answers against the sample response at Dbq apush essay end to see how yours compares! You are advised to spend 15 minutes planning and 40 minutes writing your answer.\nMost of your highly intensive, critical thinking type stuff should already have happened and now it is just all about putting those thoughts into words. You can get an additional point here for doing further analysis on 4 of the documents. What do I mean? Either create an outline of key points or time yourself for 55 minutes 15 to prep and 40 to write to get test day practice.\nYou might talk to a guidance counselor about your anxiety. After, work on any skills that still need to be honed. Read through the prompt and documents and then identify what historical connections you could make for your synthesis point.\nFlip around in there! You might also try thinking about how you would arrange those observations in an argument, or even try writing a practice outline!\nRemember, an outline is just a guide for your essay—it is fine to switch things around as you are writing. Use the prompt and documents below to practice writing a DBQ. Especially with these 6 easy steps! But be ready to write pretty fast. One point of 1 for synthesis.\nJune 14, This will also help prime you for test day, when you will be having to combine all of the rubric skills in a timed environment. On test day, keep yourself on track time-wise! Download it for free now: Before they write the essay, however, New York students have to answer short answer questions about the documents.\nLots of people have this.\nSee these AP World History study tips from one of our experts. Then when you can do it in 20 and 50, move back to 18 minutes and 45 for writing, then to 15 and Exam Resources.\nAP United States History Course and Exam Description (PDF) (Opens in new window) AP US History Modules from Gilder Lehrman Center AP US History Modules from Gilder Lehrman Center (Opens in new window) AP U.S. History Practice Exam (PDF) (Opens in new window). Free-Response Questions. Below are free-response questions from AP U.S.\nHistory Exams administered before the course and exam were initially redesigned in AP’s high school United States History course is a rigorous, college-level class that provides an opportunity to gain skills colleges recognize.\nSign in Help. AP Students write an essay in which you attribute each quotation to. The ‘50s and ‘60s: Decades of Prosperity and Protest (DBQ) The s were characterized as a prosperous and conformist decade for many reasons. The first and most widespread of these reasons was the development of the suburbs.\nDBQ Essay Outline Guide Use the following outline to plan and write your essays, in response to a Document Based Question (DBQ). The format is. APUSH DBQ sample is from - College Board.Download", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Ernesto Pesce is a visual artist, primarily drawing, painting, printmaking, and working with objects. He has lived in Buenos Aires his entire life.\nOnce cosmopolitan and a cultural melting pot, called the Europe of Latin America, Ernesto's homeland changed by the mid-20th century. The military’s “Liberating Revolution” overthrew Juan Peron’s government in 1955 when Ernesto was a child. The government was conservative, restricting political and cultural activities. By the mid-1960s when Ernesto was a student, he produced art that reflected his resistance to the dictatorship. But he was careful and not outspoken about his ideas, painting symbols to hide their true meanings.\nEventually, the dictatorship weakened and the exiled Peron, beloved by many in Argentina, returned with his new wife Isabel in 1973. Democratic elections were held that year with Peron recapturing his presidential office. Peron’s term was marked by extreme and violent conflict between Peronist factions: worker unions and Montoneros on the left and conservatives on the right. Calls to repress the leftists, death squads targeted radicals. Meanwhile, the Guevarist ERP, opposed the Peronist right wing and engaged in guerilla tactics against the Army and Ford Motor Corporation. A year after Peron’s third term, he died on July 1, 1974. Isabel Peron succeeded him for three years until the military junta took over and a new reign of terror swept Argentina in 1976. The new dictatorship set out to restore the country and rid it from all insurgent elements. Anyone thought to oppose the government risked their lives.\nBy this time, Ernesto was a professional artist and not willing to risk his life by representing any resistance against the junta. Instead of painting about the events unfolding during this \"Dirty War\", Ernesto turned to reflections about his Italian grandparents who immigrated to Argentina in 1900. They were artists who painted murals of churches in the Piedmont area in Italy. When they immigrated to Argentina they could no longer continue their art. As a tribute to his grandparents and their sacrifice, which allowed him to be an artist, he produced a series called Immigrants that told the story of the massive immigration in the 19th century Argentina.\nThe dictatorship that terrorized Argentina for several years, fell in 1983. Argentina returned to democratic society. No longer were its people turning a blind eye to atrocities or living in fear. It became what it once was several decades earlier, a melting pot where people of different races and religions lived together. In 1988, Ernesto married a young artist, the sculptor Mariana Shapiro. Their marriage was a bond of art and a blending of cultures. Mariana’s grandparents were Jewish, immigrating from Russia. At an early age, Mariana was a recognized artist and received many prestigious awards for her work. One of the many important works she produced was in 1995, a monument for the victims of the AMIA bombing in the Jewish cemetery in La Tablada. In designing the monument, Mariana was inspired by the one surviving building from that tragedy, the AMIA library. For her, its survival meant that ideas, religious beliefs, acts of solidarity, and love for fellow human beings cannot be destroyed by a bomb or by death.\nFor 20 years Mariana and Ernesto lived in a neighborhood of peace among friends. In 2005, Mariana and Ernesto woke up to find on the door of their house graffiti that read “Here lives a Jew, we do not want in the neighborhood.” They never experienced an act of anti-Semitism. Mariana responded quickly, taking a photograph with her standing next to the graffiti. She made sure that everyone knew about this act of hatred. In return she received an outpouring of support and expressions of outrage. The authorities called her, the press published stories, and friends sent her emails. From all of this material, she created an art book, which she titled The Monster in My Neighborhood that was part of a group exhibition called \"Books of the Artists\". Two copies of the book exist today. An art collector owns one copy and the other is on loan with a friend of Mariana’s who is an official of the AMIA. Mariana spoke out without fear.\nMariana died in 2006 at the age of 46.\nErnesto's art has exhibited in Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Spain, France, Italy, South, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States. Ernesto’s recent works includes “Some Roads Leads to Strength” series (2007), which represents the idea that we can find the strength to live fully if we follow certain paths; “The Great Wall of China” series (2009) inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ \"The Wall and the Books”; “You Cannot Conceal Your Sowing” series/”You Cannot Conceal Your Tree Cutting” series (2009), using geometry and Google Earth’s imagery to convey the reality that we are being watched through satellites in our intimacy.\nHis recent “Soul Portraits (2011) symbolizes the wish his son Lautaro told him in 2006 after Mariana died. “The soul of my mother, Mariana was in the center star of the ‘Tres Marias’, in Orion’s Belt. Ernesto found a way to make the wish in an image.\nErnesto believes that our project is important because we should never tolerate any attack, no matter how small the persecution and discrimination against any person because of race, ethnicity or religion. At any time, anywhere.\nIn 2005, on the front door of our house there appeared this inscription , “Here lives a Jew, we don’t want her in our neighborhood.” We lived 20 years in that place, we always had a great relationship with our neighbors. Something very strange for us to experience. Mariana quickly had a photo made of her standing next to this graffiti on the door and made a complaint to the police about the anti-Semitism. She also sent an email and the photograph to her friends. Eventually, they heard from a thousand people from everywhere around the world, seeking solidarity. The police reacted quickly. They put custodians on the door, to guard the door. The government authorities called right away, always with the message that any discriminatory act or anti-Semitic act would be reacted to right away, would be denounced.\nAnd there was another aspect on the artistic side of things, an invitation to Mariana to participate in an exhibition “Books of the Artists”. Artists would create books where they would draw something, write something. So Mariana figured for this exhibition that she would print all of the emails they had received, including the photo of her standing next to the graffiti on the house’s front door. So she converted a regrettable act as an artist into an artistic work.\nMariana created there (at the Tablada, the Jewish Cemetery) something very artistic about a very lamentable act that was related in this case to the library that AMIA had maintained. The sculpture has a plaque with Jewish letters, Jewish words on it—quotes. They are connected, but they are moving towards the heavens. So her message was that something essential cannot be destroyed.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Linear position sensors gain acceptance\nSmaller diameters, new materials\nWhile linear position sensors were once considered too long for applications with limited space, new winding techniques and computer-based winding machines allow the linear position sensor body to be reduced while maintaining or increasing stroke length. With the improved stroke-to-length ratio (now up to 80%), the LVDT linear position sensor becomes a viable position measurement device for machine tool positioning, hydraulic cylinder positioning, and valve position sensing.\nSmaller, contactless linear position sensors also feature a lightweight low mass core that is ideal (see figure 2) for process control applications having high-dynamic response requirements, such as plastic injection molding machines, automatic inspection equipment, and different robotic applications requiring displacement feedback to ensure proper machinery operation.\nLVDTs are also configurable in a variety of mechanical and electrical designs to meet the measurement and environmental requirements of various process control applications. New corrosion-resistant/high-temperature materials such as Monel or Inconel enable the LVDT linear position sensor to operate in more hostile environments, including those with high and low temperature extremes, radiation exposure, or vacuum pressure conditions. For applications where sensors must withstand exposure to flammable or corrosive vapors and liquids, or operate in pressurized fluid, its case and coil assembly can be hermetically sealed using a variety of welding processes.\nFor example, in power generation applications (see figure 3), linear position sensors designed for high temperature and mild radiation resistance can perform in power plants to provide feedback on the position of nuclear steam and gas turbine control valves for increased plant efficiency and reduced operating costs.\nIn a typical power plant, steam turbines contain a number of control valves-a reheat stop value, an interceptor valve, a governor valve, and a throttle valve. Typically, plants have very precise control schemes for valve position to increase operating efficiency and save fuel. Operating within the harsh environment of a power or steam plant, linear position sensors can determine if valves are fully opened or closed to within a thousandth of an inch, providing output to remote electronics that can be monitored by operators if something is not working properly. The combination of LVDTs with modern computerized turbine control systems saves power companies millions of dollars per year.\nSensors also play an important role in the predictive maintenance of gas turbines as part of process control systems used to monitor shell expansion and bearing vibration. When installed on turbine shells, hermetically sealed LVDT position sensors measure shell expansion, providing linear output that operators can utilize to determine proper thermal growth of a turbine shell during start-up, operation, and shutdown.\nLVDTs designed to withstand shocks and heavy pounding are used in the press and dye industry for the mechanical control of machine operations as improper operation can lead to broken dyes that result in downed machines, while the ambiguous force of presses can lead to misshapen and out-of-spec parts. Spring-loaded LVDT position sensors are installed on presses so that the plunger of the sensor is compressed as the punch press comes in contact with the metal being shaped. The output of the LVDT is fed back into the machine's control system, providing feedback on how far a press has moved and when to stop.\nFor more than six decades, LVDT linear position sensors have served as part of measurement and control systems, providing essential information without which many process control systems couldn't function. From its limited use as a laboratory tool more than three decades ago, the LVDT linear position sensor has evolved into a highly reliable and cost-effective linear feedback device, making it the preferred technology for critical and reliable linear displacement measurements in an array of industrial process control applications.\nEileen Otto of Macro Sensors can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In a previous post, I explained how to visualize what part of your code is covered by your tests.\nThis post explores two questions that are perhaps more important: why and what code coverage to measure.\nWhy We Measure Code Coverage\nWhat does it mean for a statement to be covered by tests? Well, it means that the statement was executed while the tests ran, nothing more, nothing less.\nWe can’t automatically assume that the statement is tested, since the bare fact that a statement was executed doesn’t imply that the effects of that execution were verified by the tests.\nIf you practice Test-First Programming, then the tests are written before the code. A new statement is added to the code only to make a failing test pass. So with Test-First Programming, you know that each executed statement is also a tested statement.\nIf you don’t write your tests first, then all bets are off. Since Test-First Programming isn’t as popular as I think it should be, let’s assume for the remainder of this post that you’re not practicing it.\nThen what good does it do us to know that a statement is executed?\nWell, if the next statement is also executed, then we know that the first statement didn’t throw an exception.\nThat doesn’t help us much either, however. Most statements should not throw an exception, but some statements clearly should. So in general, we still don’t get a lot of value out of knowing that a statement is executed.\nThe true value of measuring code coverage is therefore not in the statements that are covered, but in the statements that are not covered! Any statement that is not executed while running the tests is surely not tested.\nUncovered code indicates that we’re missing tests.\nWhat Code Coverage We Should Measure\nOur next job is to figure out what tests are missing, so we can add them. How can we do that?\nSince we’re measuring code coverage, we know the target of the missing tests, namely the statements that were not executed.\nIf some of those statements are in a single class, and you have unit tests for that class, it’s easy to see that those unit tests are incomplete.\nUnit tests can definitely benefit from measuring code coverage.\nWhat about acceptance tests? Some code can easily be related to a single feature, so in those cases we could add an acceptance test.\nIn general, however, the relationship between a single line of code and a feature is weak. Just think of all the code we re-use between features. So we shouldn’t expect to always be able to tell by looking at the code what acceptance test we’re missing.\nIt makes sense to measure code coverage for unit tests, but not so much for acceptance tests.\nCode Coverage on Acceptance Tests Can Reveal Dead Code\nOne thing we can do by measuring code coverage on acceptance tests, is find dead code.\nDead code is code that is not executed, except perhaps by unit tests. It lives on in the code base like a zombie.\nDead code takes up space, but that’s not usually a big problem.\nSome dead code can be detected by other means, like by your IDE. So all in all, it seems that we’re not gaining much by measuring code coverage for acceptance tests.\nCode Coverage on Acceptance Tests May Be Dangerous\nOK, so we don’t gain much by measuring coverage on acceptance tests. But no harm, no foul, right?\nWell, that remains to be seen.\nSome organizations impose targets for code coverage. Mindlessly following a rule is not a good idea, but, alas, such is often the way of big organizations. Anyway, an imposed number of, say, 75% line coverage may be achievable by executing only the acceptance tests.\nSo developers may have an incentive to focus their tests exclusively on acceptance tests.\nThis is not as it should be according to the Test Pyramid.\nAcceptance tests are slower, and, especially when working through a GUI, may also be more brittle than unit tests.\nTherefore, they usually don’t go much further than testing the happy path. While it’s great to know that all the units integrate well, the happy path is not where most bugs hide.\nSome edge and error cases are very hard to write as automated acceptance tests. For instance, how do you test what happens when the network connection drops out?\nThese types of failures are much easier explored by unit tests, since you can use mock objects there.\nThe path of least resistance in your development process should lead developers to do the right thing. The right thing is to have most of the tests in the form of unit tests.\nIf you enforce a certain amount of code coverage, be sure to measure that coverage on unit tests only.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Information is one of the key aspects of life that has become ubiquitous.\nThis information is being presented to both users and computers.\nWhen it comes to computers, information needs to be structured well and the meta structure of the data needs to be known in advance.\nWhen dealing with complex entities such as computer networks, one has to handle a lot of data: both configurational and operational. Hence the need to conceptualize the storage of data in a structured way. Data models have come about to address this problem.\nWhen large sets of data gets stored in a structured and well-understood way, it becomes easy to access and manipulate such data. One can even conceive of algorithms and programs to deal with such data.\nIf the devices on the network are able to be provisioned and monitored using such structured and modeled data, one can conceive of having algorithms for managing the network.\nWith the YANG language, we can model the data for an application in a YANG module. For example, we can model the data for the BGP protocol in a YANG module.\nA YANG module comes with its own revision history and has rules for backward compatibility.\nHowever, it is also interesting to have a way to model sets of YANG models. This can be useful in determining which set of models are supported in an implementation. This is where the YANG library becomes very useful. This allows a way of tracking which set of YANG modules are supported on a particular server.\nOne of the interesting aspects of YANG is the kind of tooling it enables. Because of it’s structured tree-like nature, it naturally renders itself to have corresponding API (corresponding to each model). These API can either be generic path-based (similar to XPath) or specific to each data model (as it is in YDK).\nThis API can then be used in various tools which may be used to configure and monitor devices which support the corresponding models. Also applications which deal with processing the modeled data can make use of such API.\nStoring and retrieving data is one of the most important requirements for most softwares. To do so in an organized and consistent way, there are multiple approaches. However, all these approaches call for having a organized way of storing and retrieving data. In other words, the data has to conform to certain data models.\nThe YANG data modeling language has several attractive features:\n- It is relatively easy to read and understand\n- It is relatively easy to extend\n- It enables expressing syntactical and semantic constraints\n- It enables programmability, for example, by enabling code generation\n- It can be easily transformed into data instances expressed as JSON or XML\nOne of the reasons why modeled data is a powerful advancement is that it makes processing of such data easier. It allows for programmability and automation. When much of the networking data is CLI-based, the operational and configuration data from network devices is mostly hand-crafted. As a result, there has to be a lot of screen-scraping and manual testing to process such data. With the advent of modeled data, which could be modeled using a language like YANG, it can be easily processed by automated programs.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tomorrow is the longest day of this year when sunrise in the north of England will be at 4.45 am and sunset at 9.34 pm.\nTimes for your region can be found here: http://www.timeanddate.com/sun/\nThe summer solstice occurs when the sun is at its highest point above the equator and takes place between 20-22 June in the northern hemisphere. ‘Solstice’ is derived from a Latin word meaning ‘the sun stands still’, because the sun appears to stop on the horizon before night closes in. This year a new moon will also rise on June 20, an infrequent astronomical occurrence.\nNow what you worship as something unknown, I am going to proclaim to you:\n‘The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth\nand does not live in temples built by human hands.\nAnd He is not served by human hands, as if He needed anything.\nRather, He himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. …..\n“For in him we live and move and have our being.”\nAs some of your own poets have said, “We are his offspring.”\nA poor life this, if full of care,\nWe have no time to stand and stare.\nClick on the 'Take Action' icon above to get in touch.\nComments aren't published without permission.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The New Scientist frets that the forestation of the arctic tundra is bad news for the planet:\nA 10-year study across eight countries reveals that rising temperatures will kill off lichen and moss across up to 40 per cent of the tundra, while encouraging woody plant species to grow in their place. The trees and shrubs will then accelerate warming because dark vegetation absorbs more solar radiation.\nTo make matters worse, it turns out that plants are responsible for “10 to 30% of the methane pumped into the atmosphere.” Methane is an even worse greenhouse gas the carbon dioxide – which one should remember is also released by plants.\nAs currently written, the Kyoto Protocol views planting trees and discouraging logging as a long-term solution to fighting global warming. However, new thinking is called for.\nThis is called for:\nAn Environmentalist Fights Global Warming", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Today, we'll start with photography's most basic compositional formula, and we'll later build from here.\nWhat is the golden ratio?\nThe golden ratio is a mathematical equation determined by ancient Greek scholars to explain natural ratios. The ratio uses the irrational number 1.61803 to 1. It's still used in Western culture to create pleasing art ratios.\nIn common practice, the ratio is roughly 2 to 3. It applies both vertically and horizontally. It determines the heighth and width of most classically-cropped images.\nThis ratio also happens to be the same approximate ratio as most film formats. Consequently, as most images are made, they conform to the golden ratio. This also explains why 8 by 10 prints are not as faithful to the negatives as 8 by 12 prints are.\nThe golden ratio is also called the divine proportion, golden mean, golden number, golden proportion and golden section. This can get confusing when we talk more about the rule of thirds and power points because older PJs may call these intersections the golden mean points. Let's hang with the term \"golden ratio\" while we talk about the image edges.\nWhat do we do with it?\nIf an image is well composed and full frame, there's no need to worry about the golden ratio. It's automatic.\nIf crops are needed, it's wise to consider the golden ratio. However, most crops should be obvious and the images should dictate the crop. We'll talk more about this soon.\nWith this said, we still need to use the golden ratio when cropping \"plain\" shots such as mug shots and the like. We want to use this ratio because it also fits layouts best. Publications are also based on the golden ratio. Magazines, newspapers, flyers, photographic prints and many computer monitors conform to this ratio because it's universal to all graphic arts.\nWhen images conform to the ratio, they create a pleasing flow within the larger publication. Designers can easily insert an image with this ratio either vertically or horizontally into the layout. Additionally, the image gets more cumulative space by conforming to this ratio.\nFrequently, square format images get the most space in publications with text. However, this is also a result of modular design and designers using the golden ratio for the entire text/art package area.\nAt this point, let's simply say images with severe horizontal or vertical crops don't get the space they often deserve. It comes back to the golden ratio and how ingrained this ratio is in Western culture.\nAgain, don't get glued to the ratio. When there is doubt, use the ratio. It's most often the correct answer.\nIn this example, four images are cropped loosely to the golden ratio while one is not. It should be easy to spot the different image.\nHow to easel crop to the ratio\nOn an easel, it's simple math. Divide the longest side by three. Multiply the result by two and you have the other dimension.\nL / 3 = X\nX * 2 = S\nL = Long side\nS = Short side\nX = multiplication factor\nFor an exact number, divide the long side by 1.61803 or multiply the short side by this same number.\nTo make sense of this, here's an example. A hypothetical horizontal image must have an exact width of 5.25 to fit within an odd-shaped frame. To make the image we're printing conform to the rough golden ratio, let's do the math:\n5.25 / 3 = 1.75\n1.75 * 2 = 3.5\n5.25 / 1.61803 = 3.244686439682824175077099930162\n3.244686439682824175077099930162 * 1.61803 = 5.25\nFor an image to meet the rough golden ratio with a known limitation of 5.25 upon the longer side, the shorter side would be 3.5. The exact measurement is closer to 3.25.\nNote we didn't say inches, feet or yards. It could be miles and still conform to the golden ratio. It's a pleasing ratio at any size.\nHow to Photoshop crop to the ratio\nFor once, Photoshop is actually easier than the old way. Choose the Crop tool. Set the long side to 3 (either the height or width) and the other side to 2. If resolution has any number, delete it. Moving from the upper left corner to the lower right corner, click and drag the mouse to make a crop box.\nOnce the crop box is made to fit within the image area, click and hold anywhere within the crop area to move the box until the crop is in the best location (we'll eventually discus edge inevitability). Once the crop box is located in a pleasing location, double click inside the crop box to set the crop. It's now set to the rough golden ratio.\nIf a specific image resolution is required after the crop, do the following: Image, Image Size, uncheck Resample Image (it defaults to Constrain Proportions), type in the required resolution, hit OK and it's done. Save.\nEnough for now,", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In the July 13, 1917 apparition of Our Lady at Fatima, we can discern the basis of the strict analogy between devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Together with the role of Mediatrix that God wills for Mary, this analogy is the theological foundation for consecration to Our Lady.\nIn the last article, we considered how the Fatima apparition of July 13, 1917 gives a clear illustration of Mary’s mediation, that is, of Her role of intercession between us and Her Son and as distributrix of graces. Such mediation is one of the fundamental principles on which the practice of consecration to Her Immaculate Heart is based. Another is the analogy of Her Immaculate Heart with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Let us look, now, at how this analogy is manifested in the signs and message of the Fatima apparitions.\nOne indication is in the similarity of the respective devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The similarity appears from a brief comparison of Our Lady’s revelations regarding devotion to her Immaculate Heart with the Holy Father’s teaching on devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.\nIn the July 13, 1917 apparition at Fatima, Our Lady taught the children this act of offering: “O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” She also showed them hell, and said that God wished to establish in the world devotion to Her Immaculate Heart to save poor sinners from going there. She predicted that World War I would end, but warned that, “if people do not cease offending God, a worse [war] will break out during the pontificate of Pius XI.” She announced that, to save mankind from such evils, She would “come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays.”\nBy these words and revelations, Our Lady was effectively stating that the fundamental elements of devotion to Her Immaculate Heart—a devotion explicitly willed by God—are consecration and reparation. It is particularly interesting to note, then, that Pius XI, the Pope whom She mentioned in the 1917 apparition and who would only come to be elected in 1922, was to later write in his encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor of May 8, 1928 that the two principal acts of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus are precisely consecration and reparation (Acta Apostolicae Sedis 20  167–169). Incidentally, we see here the remarkable harmony between what we may call the “hierarchical order” and the “charismatic order.” Almost eleven years before Pius XI solemnly enumerated the principal acts of devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus as consecration and reparation, Our Lady had spoken of these as the principle acts of devotion to Her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, in strict analogy to devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It should also be pointed out that reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a fundamental feature of the Message of Fatima, which was already presented to the shepherd children in the third apparition of the Angel at Valhinos in 1916.\nIn addition to this Magisterial concordance with the Fatima message, suggesting similarity between the two hearts, there is also the testimony of the saints. The statement made by Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort in his Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is worth underscoring: “We consecrate ourselves at one and the same time to the most holy Virgin and to Jesus Christ; to the most holy Virgin as to the perfect means which Jesus Christ has chosen whereby to unite Himself to us, and us to Him; and to our Lord as to our Last End, to whom, as our Redeemer and our God, we owe all we are” (no. 125).\nThese are just a few examples illustrating the analogy between Jesus and Mary, between His Heart and Her Heart, between consecration to His Heart and to Her Heart. Needless to say, it is an analogy and not an identity. Consecration to Her and to Her Heart is always a means of arriving at Him and His Heart. Thus we see that consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary is justified on the basis of the concept of analogy and mediation. We consecrate ourselves to Mary in order to belong more entirely to Jesus. Saint Louis-Marie gives us the rationale in this way: “All our perfection consists in being conformed, united and consecrated to Jesus Christ; and therefore the most perfect of all devotions is, without any doubt, that which the most perfectly conforms, unites and consecrates us to Jesus Christ. Now, Mary being the most conformed of all creatures to Jesus Christ, it follows that, of all devotions, that which most consecrates and conforms the soul to Our Lord is devotion to His holy Mother, and that the more a soul is consecrated to Mary, the more it is consecrated to Jesus” (True Devotion, no. 120).\nThis, of course, seems like utter foolishness to our Protestant brothers and sisters and—unfortunately— to not a few of our Catholic brothers and sisters, but this is part of the mysterious design of God who wills Mary’s mediation as the most direct way to Jesus. Now the specific plea of Our Lady at Fatima, clarified subsequently to Sister Lucia at Tuy, Spain on June 13, 1929, was the consecration of Russia, but the principle remains valid for all.\nThe second major act of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary formulated in the July apparition of Our Lady is that of reparation. Just as She would come later to Sister Lucia to ask for the consecration of Russia, so the Lord himself would also come later to her to ask for the Communion of reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart on the five First Saturdays of the month. This happened in Pontevedra, Spain on December 10, 1925 and on February 15, 1926. As I have noted elsewhere, the theology of reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary remains virgin terrain. It is repeatedly illustrated in the lives of the three shepherd children in all four memoirs, but its theological elaboration remains to be further explored.\nThe analogy between the Two Hearts is not hard grasp. God willed Mary, Jesus’ Immaculate Mother, from all Eternity, in the one and same decree of the Incarnation of His Son, the Eternal Word and Redeemer, that she should cooperate with Him in the regeneration of human kind. The appearance of the Blessed Virgin at Fatima, and the salvation message which she delivered there, once again point us to the unity of the Two Hearts, and help us understand that the Immaculate Heart of Mary is the surest way to the Jesus’ Sacred Heart.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sleeping is part of our overall function on a daily basis. Even though there are people who can live a day with a good two-hour of sleep, most of us can’t function accordingly when sleep deprived. Aside from the struggle of completing six to eight hours of sleep, snoring is another common problem being faced by both men and women.\nSnoring has been a widespread problem that many individuals who suffer from this just take it for granted. Most of the snorers believe that as long as they can still sleep on a regular basis, snoring isn’t really a problem. Truth be told, snoring is a common problem that can affect up to 45 % of the total population of normal adults. Snoring can be experienced as early as the age of 20 depending on different factors and circumstances. The factors that can cause snoring includes uncomfortable sleeping position, drinking alcoholic beverages and taking sedatives, and a lot more.\nOccasional snorers don’t actually consider snoring as a problem. However, individuals who are suffering from severe snoring might be a little more conscious of this problem. Severe snoring might be the end product of an underlying health problem that is waiting to be discovered. So, if you’ve been dealing with snoring problems for quite some time, you might need to consider visiting your doctor or physician for medical and professional help. On the other hand, if you noticed that your snoring problem started when you gained a few pounds, it might be the culprit.\nGaining excess weight is one of the most common reasons why men and women snore. The extra pounds building up in the neck area can affect the passage of air in the mouth and throat. Thus, it aggravates the vibrations in the area that produces the sound of snoring. The fatty tissues at the back of your throat can block the air as you inhale or exhale while sleeping. In other words, if you try to lose extra weight by exercising and become physically active, it can offer a significant change in the way you snore. Plus, burning the fatty tissues at the back of your throat can totally eradicate your snoring problem as a whole. Exercising offers a good amount of benefits for people who snores.\nWhen it comes to exercising, you don’t have to just focus on the neck area. This is due to the fact that overall body exercise can help to burn the excess pounds in the other parts of the body. But, if you feel like you want to focus on exercising your mouth, here are the simple and easy mouth exercise that you can try. For sure, there is a mouth exercise that will make you feel sexier and sleep better.\n- Suck your tongue upward and do it for at least 20 times.\n- Lift your soft palate for 20 to 30 times.\n- Whenever you’re eating or chewing, bite down and lift your tongue to the roof of the mouth as you start to swallow.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "was the predecessor of the firearm known to modern folk as a musket\n. It was classified as a handgun\n, weighing in at under 6-7 kg\n; it consisted of a simple smoothbore\nbarrel wedded to a wooden frame. Trigger mechanisms were rudimentary\n, but are important in distinguishing the harquebus from earlier hand cannon\nThe term harquebus means 'gun with a hook' and may have originally come into use due to the early shape of the weapon. They were designed as firearm replacements for the crossbow, and early models retained the general shape of the crossbow, with a decorative or at least vestigial crosspiece in front.\nDiffering from hand cannon in its method of ignition, the harquebus owes much of its introduction to the invention of the slow match. A slow match consisted of a bit of twine soaked in a retardant fuel, typically ammonium nitrate, and then dried. When lit, it would smolder for an extended period without consuming the match, as well as being resistant to extinguishing. These were quickly popular with cannoneers, as it allowed them to easily retain ready flames with which to touch off their pieces. German gunsmiths in the mid 15th century hit upon the idea of fastening a metal piece to the side of a firearm in the shape of a large 'S' with a pivot in the middle and a set of clamps at the top end. The clamps would hold a slow match, and when the contraption was pivoted around the center by moving the bottom of the 's' (where the holder gripped the weapon) the slow match would be brought into contact with the flashpan around the touchhole - and BANG.\nThe craftsmen most able to produce moving durable mechanisms of metal were, at the time, locksmiths; they were pressed into service to manufacture these firing mechanisms. As a result, to this day, mechanisms to fire a gun are called 'locks' - and this, the matchlock, was the first of its kind. It made the difference between a simple hand cannon and a harquebus.\nEventually, the matchlock become more complex with the addition of a side-mounted flashpan, then with covers for the flashpan to protect the primer, and eventually with a spring to drive the match against the primer when the match holder had passed a particular position. The 's' of metal migrated from the outside of the gun to the interior of the butt, which grew to accomodate it as well as allow the firer to hold the weapon against his shoulder (rather than the original - and painful-looking - practice of bracing it against the breastbone). The interior-mounted 's' piece evolved into the modern trigger mechanism by splitting into three pieces: the arm holding the match, a trigger at the bottom, and a connecting piece known as the sear. Around 1500, the matchlock was joined by the wheellock, which rather than using a lit match rotated a metal cylinder against iron pyrites (pyrite - fire stone - get it?) to produce sparks inside the flashpan. This allowed the weapon to be carried charged, without requiring the ignition of the match; however, wheellocks were complex and fragile, which kept them out of general weapons and in the guns of nobles.\nThe term harquebus came to mean a smaller shoulder arm, midway between a musket and the newer pistols; more of a carbine in size. Typically, a harquebus of the 16th century was a weapon that was highly ornate or customized, used as a noble's personal arm rather than the weapon of a common soldier - occasionally with a wheellock rather than a matchlock. The musket was the next step; a larger weapon, longer and more accurate due to better powder mixtures and improved methods of barrel construction. The introduction of the flintlock finally made the carrying of a charged weapon practical, as the flintlock was much simpler, hence cheaper and more durable, than the wheellock.\nThe flintlock musket eclipsed the matchlock harquebus by the end of the 17th century.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Pi Not Always Best Random Number Generator\nWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – If you wanted a random number, historically you could do worse than to pick a sequence from the string of digits in pi. But Purdue University scientists now say other sources might be better.\nPhysicists including Purdue’s Ephraim Fischbach have completed a study comparing the “randomness” in pi to that produced by 30 software random number generators and one chaos-generating physical machine. After conducting several tests, they have found that while sequences of digits from pi are indeed an acceptable source of randomness ““ often an important factor in data encryption and in solving certain physics problems ““ pi’s digit string does not always produce randomness as effectively as manufactured generators do.\n“We do not believe these results imply anything about a pattern existing in pi’s number set,” said Fischbach, who is a professor of physics in Purdue’s College of Science. “However, it may imply that if your livelihood depends on a reliable source of random numbers, as a cryptographer’s might, then some commercially available random number generators might serve you better.”\nFischbach conducted the study with Shu-Ju Tu, a former graduate student who has since moved to a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Their research paper appears in the International Journal of Modern Physics C, vol. 16, no. 2.\nPi, the ratio between a circle’s diameter and circumference, has fascinated mathematicians for centuries. A bit larger than the number 3, pi cannot be expressed as a ratio of two whole numbers, and its apparently endless string of digits is sometimes expressed as 3.14159″¦ Modern computers have enabled mathematicians to calculate the value of pi to more than 200 billion digits to the right of the decimal point. But no one has ever found evidence that calculating finer and finer values of pi will ever reveal an end to the string or that there is any regular pattern to be found within it.\nTu and Fischbach decided to test pi’s randomness against the outputs of 31 commercially available random number generators (RNGs) that are frequently used for encrypting confidential information before it is stored or sent electronically. To produce numbers, many of these RNGs use an algorithm ““ a short set of instructions that can be repeated quickly ““ and it is the quality of the algorithm that makes one RNG more valuable than another.\n“Strictly speaking, an algorithm does not produce a truly random number,” Fischbach said. “Because its instructions are fixed, an RNG’s output could, in theory, be predicted, if you knew what the algorithm was. Of course, anyone using a particular RNG will want to keep its algorithm secret, and for the most part RNGs are cleverly designed enough that they produce numbers that are ‘sufficiently random’ for encryption purposes.”\nThe scientists took approximately the first 100 million digits of pi, broke the string up into 10-digit segments, and gave the segments a form that defines a point somewhere within a cube with sides one unit long. To specify each point, three such segments are necessary ““ one for each dimension. For example, the sequence 1415926535 was given the form 0.1415926535, which specifies the point’s distance along the x-axis. Similarly, the two subsequent sequences give the point’s y and z coordinates. All of the sequences thus became coordinates between zero and one, giving millions of points that lay within the imaginary cube.\n“Each point within a cube lies at some distance from the cube’s center ““ some are close, some farther away,” Fischbach said. “If you graph their distribution from the center, what you get resembles a familiar bell-shaped probability curve. What we wanted to find out, in essence, was whether the points derived from pi’s digits generate an identical curve, and also whether the commercially available RNGs do.”\nIn addition to checking these curves against the predicted ideal, the scientists created a computer program that was able to test randomness even further. It also took groups of points, formed angles from the lines between them, and compared the measure of those angles. The program even took groups of coordinates and tested their randomness within imaginary cubes of six dimensions.\n“This was our attempt to leave fewer stones unturned,” Tu said. “We hoped additional tests might reveal hidden correlations between number sets that a single test might not have shown.”\nFrom the tests Tu and Fischbach ran, each RNG was given a letter grade according to how great its standard deviation, or sigma, was from the expected value. Pi’s scores were consistently high across all the experiments, but what surprised them was that some of the RNGs performed even better in some situations.\n“Our work showed no correlations or patterns in pi’s number set ““ in short, pi is indeed a good source of randomness,” Fischbach said. “However, there were times when pi’s performance was outdone by the RNGs.”\nPi never scored less than a B on the tests, and in one case outperformed all the RNGs, which in addition to mathematical algorithms included a device that uses turbulence in a fluid as its source of randomness. But in most cases, pi lost out to at least one RNG, and in several it finished decidedly in the middle of the pack. Fischbach emphasized that the results do not imply the existence of any patterns in pi’s digit string, though he said would like to see more tests done.\n“This study probably says more about our commercially available random number generators than the nature of pi,” Fischbach said. “Some of them failed our tests outright. But they, and pi as well, might perform differently if the tests were run under different circumstances.”\nFischbach mentioned that less than 1 percent of pi’s known digits were used in the tests, and that cubes of dimensions other than 3 and 6 could be imagined.\n“These tests are simple to reproduce with a desktop computer. All you need is time,” he said. “It took us almost a year of work to crunch these numbers. We have included the program we used in the paper if anyone would like to try doing the analysis with a larger number set. I hope someone will because pi shows up in security systems, cryptography and other places that have nothing to do with circles. That’s part of what gives it a fascination that will not go away.”\nThis research was funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy.\nOn the Net:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "There is a need to develop an integrated policy and programme of action worldwide to provide quality, universal and free education that is relevant and accessible to children of poor families to which the majority of child labourers belong. Child labour concerns should be explicitly addressed and integrated into such a policy. A holistic approach to education is necessary. In addition, quality education must not stop at primary level if young people are to be adequately prepared for the labour market and for decent work within it, rather than being confined to low-skilled, unprotected jobs in the informal economy.\nExperience has shown that providing basic literacy and numeric skills through non-formal education does not guarantee that children will be permanently withdrawn from work, which is why mainstreaming these children into formal education systems is vital. Furthermore, investments in basic education normally only reach the more privileged social groups, whereas efforts should be spread more evenly, focusing more on children at risk. Social exclusion mechanisms are another strong factor that keep children out of school and push them into work.\nThere is a need to give priority to the expansion of public educational systems to accommodate the numbers of children who still do not have access to school. This means that:\n- More schools need to be built, teachers need to be recruited and trained and educational materials need to be made available.\n- Alternative approaches need to be developed to provide for the education of children when geographical conditions pose obstacles or the community’s lifestyle involves mobility.\n- The formal and non-formal education systems need to be linked in a more systematic manner to allow for easier transitions from the non-formal to the formal sector, and both systems need to be improved and upgraded in many countries.\n- School admission and retention policies should facilitate the entry or re-entry of children into schools by providing alternative placement options and independent learning approaches with adequate guidance and support for over-aged children or children who re-enter school.\nA substantial increase in the availability of public education in rural areas at the pre-primary, primary and secondary levels will diminish the pressure and existing congestion in schools in the urban centres where poor families migrate in search of both jobs and educational opportunities for their children.\nIn many cases, children in the worst forms of child labour belong to the lowest strata of society in terms of ethnicity and culture. In this regard, IPEC is working in collaboration with the ILO's INDISCO programme and ILO PRO 169 in order to understand better how these exclusion mechanisms affect the education of indigenous and tribal peoples and to develop models to counteract them. These models can then be adapted and replicated in various countries. ILO PRO 169 is the Project to Promote ILO Policy on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples which operates at the policy level. It aims to promote the rights of indigenous and tribal peoples, encourage dialogue on the issues affecting them and to build the capacity of these peoples to promote and protect their own rights. IPEC is working with PRO 169 to establish the close links between indigenous children, child labour and education.\nFurther IPEC action against child labour through education training focuses on the following key areas:\n- Enlisting the support of teachers, educators and their organizations;\n- Replicating good practices in formal and non-formal education;\n- Establishing Education Task Forces;\n- Education of girls;\n- Mainstreaming education in IPEC’s Time-Bound Programmes (TBPs);\n- Investing in Early Childhood Development programmes;\n- Educating children and their families on children’s rights and child labour.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Befreiungshalle was built by decree of King Ludwig I on a picturesque hilltop above the Danube River. Construction began in 1842, but it was not complete until it's opening on October 18, 1863 (the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Nations).\nThe area hasn't really changed that much since it was built.\nPost Card from 1900\nAfter Napoleon's disastrous retreat from Russia, his humbled military faced the newly united armies of the Sixth Coalition at the Battle of Leipzig (or the Battle of the Nations). As the Sixth Coalition seized the initiative on the battlefields of Central Europe, French forces were successively driven back towards France. This series of setbacks for Napoleon would eventually culminate in the liberation of German states and the eventual French defeat at Waterloo. So while the English speaking world saw this as the gradual undoing of Napoleon, those in Germany saw these series of battles from 1812 to 1814 as their liberation from France. It's only fitting then that so many locales chose to commemorate their freedom.\nThe approximately 150 foot tall memorial is heavy with symbolism related to the number eighteen. This is because the Battle of the Nations occurred on October 18, 1813, and the Battle of Waterloo was fought on June 18, 1815. On the outside of Befreiungshalle, there are eighteen statues holding placards for each of the historic Germanic tribes: Franconians, Bohemians, Tyroleans, Bavarians, Austrians, Prussians, Hanoverians, Moravians, Saxons, Silesians, Brandenburgers, Pomeranians, Mecklenburgers, Westphalians, Hessians, Thueringians, Rheinlaenders, and Swabians.\nInside, the large domed hall is supported by 54 columns (3 times 18) and an equal number of pillars, and 36 columns (2 times 18) in the upper gallery. Around the edge of first floor are eleven-foot tall winged Victories in a ringed circle representing the members of the German Confederation, alternatively holding hands and shields. On the shields are displayed the battles in the liberation of Germany and above the upper gallery are inscriptions for key generals and recaptured strongholds.\nIn the center of the hall on the floor is inlaid the following:\nTranslated into English, it reads:\nnever forget what\nthe struggle for freedom\nand by what means they\nOf course the Nazis were always up for a good monument to honor German struggle and unity and the site wasn't overlooked for their exploitive purposes.\nBut I have to wonder what Hitler thought of the gold six-pointed stars surrounding Ludwig's words in the center of the hall.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The teacher and student continued their discussion about branding based on the book, The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, by Al and Laura Ries. They completed a discussion about publicity and are now ready to discuss advertising.\n“Once you establish your brand through publicity, getting others to write about or broadcast information about your product, you need to advertise.” said the teacher. “Publicity is important, but remember, the news likes to publicize new things. Once your brand becomes established, you are no longer new. Now, you need to advertise to keep your brand in the minds of your customers.”\n“Advertising acts as a constant reminder. It is an investment.”\n“You can think about advertising as an investment, but do not think about it as only a return on investment.”\n“Why?” asked the student.\n“While advertising keeps your product in the minds of customers and potential customers, it is not directly proportional to sales. Not all of your customers will buy your product or service every time you advertise. They may not need your product or service at the time of your ad.\nThe most important aspect of customer relationships are the relationships. Relationships are built on trust. Advertising helps establish that trust. It tells customers and potential customers that you are doing well, you have new products, services, and what is on your business’s mind. Remember My Rule of Business: Business is about people. It doesn’t matter what you sell, all business is about people. In personal relationships you tell your significant other that you are doing well, what you are thinking about, and plans for the future. Advertising your business does the same for your customers; you want them to know that your business is doing well. If you advertise well, your customers will contact you when they need you.”\n“What are the best form of advertising?”\n“The best form of advertising is the form that reaches your customers and your market.” replied the teacher. “If the Internet best reaches your market, use email, blogs, Twitter and other Internet technologies. If radio is the key, use radio. If print works the best, use magazines, newspapers, flyers and so on. The best method is the one that reaches your customers. Use one, a combination, or all.\n“Thank you.” said the student. “What will we discuss next time?”\n“Rule #5 – The Law of the Word.” answered the teacher.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Today 26th February 2013 was spent surveying Whinney Hill, south west of Longhorsely. Ancient woodland held ramsons, primroses, and the first evidence of bluebells. A male great spotted woodpecker was in full drumming mode on a dead branch.\nArable land held small numbers of skylarks (4), 2 pairs of grey partridge, brown hares (3), roe deer (3) and flocks of both yellowhammers (9+) and reed buntings (5). The first shoots of hare's tail cotton-grass and lesser spearwort were found on a small area of upland bog. A small pond in an arable field held a good amount of frog spawn.\nThe lake held 28 mallard, 9 goosander, 3 mute swan, a pair of gadwall, 1 moorhen and evidence of otter. Great tits were investigating nest-boxes", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Aponogeton madagascariensis is one of the most highly prized plants in the hobby. It requires a tank with clean and clear water conditions. The tank should have a high filtration system with strong water flow along with soils low in organic matter. Nutrient rich substrates or those with added peat or manure should be avoided. It is best kept in soft water with a pH of 5.5-7.5, hardness of 2-15 dGH and a temperature of 68-720 F (20-220 C). Lighting should be medium in the range of 3 to 5 watts per gallon, using full spectrum (5000-7000K) bulbs. This plant requires CO2 additions to do its best, along with careful maintenance of all micronutrients and macronutrients. The lace plant is especially sensitive to a lack of soluble iron in the water. Older leaves get brown spots which makes them rather less attractive to look at. In this case trim any dead or older leaves to make an attractive aquarium. Sometimes dead spots are seen on the leaves which indicate that the soil is too rich in the plant. Do not allow algae growth or any other debris to settle on or within the leaves. Algal growth is difficult to remove from the leaves. In this case, algae eating fish is suitable to control the overgrowth of algae. Madagascar Lace Plant should be planted singly in the mid-ground part of the aquarium among the other plants because roots from other plants help the lace plant get established. Ideally, these ‘companion plants’ should not overgrow or shade the lace plant leaves.\nTall Aponogeton. This species tolerates temperatures above 30°C which makes it suitable for discus tanks. Use as a solitary plant or as a background plant in large aquaria.\nAponogeton Capuroni Aquarium Plant Bulb | Arizona Aquatic Gardens\nAponogetons are lovely, if somewhat under-appreciated plants in freshwater and brackish aquariums. Part of the difficulty with these plants is that it is difficult to determine what sort of plant you will get (leaf length, presence of waves, color) until it sprouts. Some aquarists also have troubles getting them to sprout, as they often rot when tossed straight into an aquarium. This post should tell you a bit about Aponogetons and how to get them started.\nAponogeton Ulvaceus Aquarium Plants - Arizona Aquatic Gardens\nThe genus of aquarium plants is a very enigmatic group of aquarium plants. With the exception of the Madagascar Lace Plant (), most Aponogetons in the trade are hybrids of certain species, with , , and being common.\nAponogeton Capuronii Bulb - Large Aquarium Plant - Cambridge LSAT", "label": "No"}
{"text": "E-safety is an integral part of children’s education in today’s digital world and is embedded in their learning at school. We want to help our parents and children improve their own understanding of e-safety issues so they can learn to use the internet and all digital media in a safe and secure way.\nAs a parent you'll know how important the internet is to children - they use it to learn, play, socialise and express themselves. It's a highly creative place of amazing opportunities, but the technology children use every day can seem a bit daunting and you might worry about the risks your child can face online - such as bullying, contact from strangers or the possibility of them seeing illegal or inappropriate content.\nYou can download a simple checklist here that may help you start to protect your children online and decrease the risks they face. Or you can engage with your children regarding their use of the internet while at home. Here are some conversation starter ideas from www.childnet.com\n- Ask your children to tell you about the sites they like to visit and what they enjoy doing online.\n- Ask them about how they stay safe online. What tips do they have for you, and where did they learn them? What is OK and not OK to share?\n- Ask them if they know where to go for help, where to find the safety advice, privacy settings and how to report or block on the services they use.\n- Encourage them to help. Perhaps they can show you how to do something better online or they might have a friend who would benefit from their help and support.\n- Think about how you use the internet as a family. What could you do to get more out of the internet together and further enjoy your lives online\nTo try and help parents with the fast moving and changing world of internet and social media we've suggested a few internet sites below. They contain information on different types of social media and how to help keep children safe.\nAs part of your child’s curriculum and the development of Computing skills, we provide access to the internet only in teacher supervised lessons. We strongly believe that the use of the web and email is hugely worthwhile and an essential tool for children as they grow up in the modern world. But because there are always concerns about children having access to undesirable materials, we have taken positive steps to deal with this risk in school. Our school internet access provider operates a filtering system that restricts access to inappropriate materials.\nAt the start of the school year, each class discusses how we can all stay safe online and the dangers we may face on the internet. We then ask every child in Key Stage One and Key Stage Two to sign an Acceptable Use Agreement KS1 and Acceptable Use Agreement KS2 so that we know they have read and understood our school's rules on staying safe.\nFor more information please see our E-Safety policy", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How Dynamic Microphone Works\nA dynamic microphone is an example of dynamic transducer. The principle of dynamic transducer is a movement of a thin metallic diaphragm because of sound wave. This diaphragm attach coil of wire. Based on Faraday’s electromagnetism law there will current flow caused by the motion of within the field. The motion speed affect the current amount that is produced by the dynamic transducers. Figure below illustrates how the dynamic transducer works:\nDynamic microphones that use dynamic transducer is called as velocity sensitive. This kind of microphone has some advantages such as no battery or external power supplies required, durable, their and reliability ruggedness and can produce extremely high sound levels without excessive distortion or damage. It also capable to produce smooth extended response and can be easily “tailored” in response for special applications. However, for the extreme frequencies, this microphone can’t give good response. This mic is the best choice if it used in “severe environments” like fellowship halls, outdoors, etc.", "label": "No"}