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I have been struggling to come up with a topic lately, especially since I no longer have my muse. The collapse of the iPad cohort in exchange for a BYOD (sometimes) classroom has made for interesting times. If the truth be known, I actually have even more to write about then I did last year but none of it is earth shattering or ground breaking enough to spend much time on. I have just been keeping my ear to the rail waiting for the next freight train of a topic to come down the line and so I present to you the BYOD Vs iPad Classroom
Those who know me, know that I am not really married to one platform or the other. Yes I have an iPhone an iPad and a Mac Book but the last two are the property of the school district. My own personal computer is a PC and even though I have an iPhone, I am actually partial to Android devices. My apparent "love" for apple products is actually more a requirement of my job than anything else, so I hope to give equal treatment to both sides.
In two short years, the iPad has undoubtedly changed the landscape of education. The device has proven to be a powerful digital tool in the hands of skilled users but its "must have" status seems to be more about marketing then it is about any proven utility. Sure there are cool things going on in the classrooms of the world using iPads but there are other powerful devices out there doing cool things too. The reality is that the iPad is not the only game in town and BYOD recognizes that.
I for one applaud digital diversity because one device does not fit the needs of all. Yes the iPad is marvellous but so are half-dozen other devices out there made by Samsung, Asus, Motorola, Sony, Acer and this doesn't even include the recent addition of ultra books to the market place but this discussion isn't about simple device comparisons. This post is about looking at the realities of digitizing the classroom with school owned devices versus student owned devices.
In this blog post, when I refer to the iPad classroom, I am referring a model where a school owns one or more sets of iPads, to be shared within the school. when i say BYOD, I am referring to a model where kids bring their own technology to class and the device can be any type, make or platform. What we are looking at are the realities of each implementation model and where they are best suited.
Cost of technology has always been an issue with school districts. Hardware costs and tech support are a significant chunk of the budget. Although hardware costs have come down over the years, the rate at which technology becomes obsolete has made it financially impossible to keep up. If School Districts could off load some of that cost by having kids bring their own device, that is a financial burden they do not have to bare. With that said, not all families can afford to buy their child(ren) a digital device to take to school so where does that leave us. You are either leaving some out of the loop or the school is still buying a handful of devices for use by those who cannot afford to buy.
Control seems to be a smouldering issue when it comes to any digital device in the classroom. For any number of reasons teachers want some if not total control of the content dispensed by the device and how it is used in their class. For the most part this desire for control is simply to ensure that a lesson goes as planned but there are other issues around inappropriate use of the device on class time which opens a teacher up to liability. With BYOD, it is FAR more difficult to control the content being dispensed and how the device is used. In the iPad classroom, teachers have far greater control of what is going on, simply by virtue of the way the device is set up as a school device.
Apps are a common thread which runs through many of the pros and cons of these two models. In an iPad classroom, the apps on the device are the ones the teacher needs for the purpose of running their class. Although we can recommend App sets to students, when a kid brings their own device, the applications they have on their device can be quite the potpourri. This means a student may or may not have an app you would like them to have so they may not be able to participate in the class the way you would like them to, or they are constantly distracted by the less than "academic" apps they have loaded on it. The result is…
Planning for a BYOD classroom is far more difficult than a iPad classroom because you have to take into account all the different types of devices kids are carrying and what it is kids are able to do with them. Not all devices can run all apps, some won't run flash and some devices won't let you upload files while others can… On any given day, the list of possible compatibility issues between device and lesson is staggering. The iPad classroom is easy, you know what you are working with and what to expect from the device, so planning your lessons and assignments is pretty straight forward.
As a result, the degree of Digital Literacy required in the BYOD classroom is significantly higher than in the iPad classroom. If both teacher and student are not competent in how to make a particular device work for the task at hand, far too much time is spent troubleshooting. If a teacher demonstrates a task using an App on a iPad but a student has a PC Laptop, that student should be able to quickly find a suitable way to do the task. Although I would suggest that a BYOD teacher should have a good idea as to what alternatives are available, their primary role of "teacher", should not be to figure things out for students.
Where the BYOD plan comes into its own is with student to device RATIOS. With the Class Set model, the iPads have to be shared amongst an entire school and frequently that class set has fewer devices then there are kids in the class. This limits access for students and creates logistical issues around saving and sharing files but perhaps more significant is that hands on time with the device is rarely consistent. The BYOD student on the other hand, is free to access their work anywhere,any time. The device becomes an extension of the their academic life and in a perfect world, the BYOD student becomes far more digitally literate.
The question then becomes, which model is best? and my answer is simply this. There is room for both models in our education system.
The reality is that most students will need to be digitally literate at some point in their lives and they should be well on their way to being so by the time they leave High School. For this to happen, they need regular access to a digital device and the BYOD model provides this. At elementary however, constant access to a device isn't really necessary or even desirable. As my wife says, "at grade 1 you are just trying keep the kids from putting their fingers up their nose… Smearing those same fingers all over an iPad is more of a health hazard then it is a learning experience" with that pleasant image in mind, the iPad model is perfect for the elementary classroom because you can utilize the device when the learning conditions are right.
When you look at the two models they can be seen as the two ends of a digital literacy continuum. As the child moves through the grades, they move toward digital independence and these two models can be implemented independent of each other or in combination to achieve this end.
Of course I have over simplified things in the diagram above as there are all sorts of details I have left out in my description. Even if I had gone into detail, there are at least as many things that could turn my best laid plans to dust. What you should take from this post is that the implementation of digital devices in a school system is not a one or the other choice. What is required is a program of diverse digital deployment.
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http://mmajunkie.com After a few hard-fought decision victories in the UFC, Kyle Kingsbury broke out of the mold and scored a 21-second knockout of Ricardo Romero at UFC 126.
Now, thanks to that flashy performance, the light heavyweight quietly carries a three-fight win streak into tonight's main-card bout at The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale.
But when it comes to true showmen, Kingsbury thinks his opponent has the market cornered.
Kingsbury (10-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) and Fabio Maldonado (18-3 MMA, 1-0 UFC) meet at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Their bout is one of five slated to air on Spike TV.
And after watching all the tape he could find on his opponent, Kingsbury told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmjaunkie.com/radio) he expects fans to be entertained.
"The first time I watched [Maldonado's footage], I thought, 'Oh man, this good is cocky,'" said Kingsbury, a cast member on "The Ultimate Fighter 8." "But the more and more I watched his fights, I realized, 'This guy is a showman. And he's a very talented guy.'"
Kingsbury, a former collegiate football player, took quickly to striking, and he's since complemented those skills with a solid ground game. Kingsbury, though, knows his opponent is exceptionally good in the standup department and could test him like few opponents have.
"He'll make you think you're kicking his ass, and you're really not landing that much damage or taking much off him because he's able to take just a little off each punch with his head movement, the way he rolls his chin, and how he kind of evades a punch," said Kingsbury, who's been training with American Kickboxing Academy. "I think of him as a showman. I respect that. I like the fact that he does that. It excites the crowd. It draws people into the fight. It's good for the sport and makes the fight more exciting."
But though he has plenty of praise for Maldonado, who owns an 11-fight win streak (which included a recent TKO of James McSweeney at UFC 120), Kingsbury isn't conceding the fight. Far from it.
In fact, he so thoroughly enjoyed his recent win over Romero that he'd like another quick knockout.
"I never expected the fight to go that way," he said of the February bout. "Ricardo is a really tough dude. … Going into that fight, I expected it to go three rounds with him. When you go in there and get a victory that fast, that's a good thing, a great thing."
And most importantly – and why he's happy to fight Maldonado – it sent fans home happy.
"You want to get an exciting win," he said. "You never expect it. You finish it, you take a deep breath, and you say, 'Wow, that happened? That's pretty cool.'
"Of course, my goal is to do it again."
For the latest on The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Pakse is the capital of Champassak province and it is here you will find the enchanting irriwaddy dolphins. Take a boat trip on the Mekong River for a chance to spot these shy mammals as they play in the water and leap through the waves.
Situated on picturesque Done Khone Island, the Mekong Dolphin Conservation Centre is a good place to find out more about these interesting animals and how to protect them. Nearby you will find Wat Phou, which is located high atop a mountain and considered to be one of the most important sights in Laos. The temple dates back to the same period as Cambodia's treasure Angkor Wat and offers spectacular views from the top.
Champassak is also home to the largest waterfalls in Southeast Asia. Known as Khone Pha Pheng, these pretty falls are easy to get to by boat or road and are a great place for a swim and a picnic, surrounded by dense jungle and a colourful array of wildlife.
Another great day trip is the Dong Hua Sao Forest reserve, which is a great place to spot a wide variety of wildlife. There are a large number of waterfalls to explore here such as the Li Phi falls and it is possible to spend the night.
The town of Champassak itself was home to the royal family until about 30 years ago and you will still find a large number of grand buildings here, including a collection from the French colonial-era, which make an interesting contract beside the traditional wooden Laotian houses and shining temples. The town has a sleepy feel to it these days and there are few vehicles to clog the streets.
There are plenty of things to do in Champassak such as elephant riding, trekking and boat rides. Champassak's rich and fertile land is perfect for growing crops and you will find large coffee, cardamom and bananas plantations here, which make the perfect backdrop for a scenic country walk.


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The deer were here first; they have been displaced from their natural habitats by man, and are now living around our homes and towns. Deer are creatures of habit. They may visit the same food sources and select the same cover to hide in every day, unless humans or other predators interrupt these patterns. Deer are highly adaptive; they soon learn that a dog is on a chain or fenced, that scarecrows are not so scary, that repellents are not really that bad, short fences are easy to jump, and holes and gaps in fences are easy to find.


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It has been revealed that the DNA of the skeleton belonging to Richard III is to sequenced. This could potentially uncover details about the last Plantagenet King, such as his eye and hair colour.
This is the next project in a long line of plans to discover more about the King, whose remains were discovered under a car park in Leicester in 2012. This study is to be led by the geneticist from the University of Leicester, Turi King, who helped confirm Richard's body through extensive DNA testings.
The programme is estimated to take at least 18 months and will cost £100,000. Through these tests, it is thought that an archive of information could be produced surrounding different findings about Richard III, allowing the public a better understanding of the medieval King.
Many surviving portraits of Richard were painted after his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Therefore, specific elements of his appearance are still contested. However, by mapping his DNA, we may be able to confirm some of his characteristics, and illustrate whether Richard's portraits were accurate depictions of him. In the Channel 4 documentary The King in the Car Park, which aired shortly after the confirmation of Richard's body was publicised, the facial reconstruction that was created, which was based on Richard's exhumed skull, showed a significant likeness to the King's portraits. The results from the genome sequencing could reveal whether Richard had characteristics such as curly or straight hair, and blue or brown eyes.
These examinations may also be able to suggest whether the King possessed any health conditions, including heart disease, diabetes or whether he was lactose intolerant. One result of the tests, which many will be interested to find out, will be whether the evident scoliosis of Richard's spine was genetically inherited.
To aid Dr King's research, she will also be sequencing the DNA of Canadian Michael Ibsen. Mr Ibsen is Richard's 17-times great nephew, and was the person who's DNA was used to test against the car park skeleton so to confirm the finding of the medieval King.
Dr King has stated"It is an extremely rare occurrence that archaeologists are involved in the excavation of a known individual, let alone a king of England."
She continued to speak of how it is now possible to "sequence entire genomes from ancient individuals and with them, those of pathogens that may have caused infectious disease".
The geneticist added "You can actually look across his entire genetic make-up and say something about his ancestry – it is likely he was northern European."
The reburial of Richard III is set to continue to be debated, as relatives to the King believe that they should have a voice in the decision of where he should be buried. Richard's remains were due to be reinterred in Leicester Cathedral, however many continue to contest this and state that the remains should be buried in York Minster.
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This question may appear elementary to all the experts in number theory , but forgive me. I really wanted to know how did the $L$-functions came into existence, especially the Hasse-Weil L-functions . Do they have some specific meaning in their formulation or they are just framed heuristically to build some thing else , as scaffolding .
I do know that Zeta functions and L-functions of the curve act as spies in collecting the secret information about the local part of curves and embed that information inside them, but its really a great trouble in understanding the formulation. I referred to many books and they have started saying " Let $L(s,E)$ be the ...." in an assuming manner .
I just wanted to know , why should one consider $$\zeta_{C/\mathbb{F_q}}(u)=\exp \bigg(\ \sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{ | C(\mathbb{F_{q^n}})|}{n} u^{n} \bigg)$$ where $C$ is a projective curve with non-negative genus over finite field $\ \mathbb{F_q}$. Here are my pointers :
I didn't understand about the reason behind introducing exponential function on the right side .
I understood that there is some measure of points taking a ratio of the cardinality ( on R.H.S ) of the solutions, but why is the ratio needed ? I got this doubt when I looked at some other heuristic consideration $\prod\frac{N_p}{p}$ ( Where $N_p$ is the cardinality of solution set at some prime $p$ ) , why is the need to take the ratio ? Isn't it not sufficient to look at just $N_p$ ? We get the cardinality directly, why should we find the ratio again by dividing it with $p$ ?
Similarly , why is the formulation of local part of $L$-series ( Hasse Weil L-function ) appear as $L_p(T)=1-a_pT+pT^2$ when the curve has good reduction at $p$ ( here $a_p=p+1-N_p$ and has some other formulation like $L_p(T) = 1-T$ and $1+T $ when the curve has split multiplicative and non-split multiplicative reductions at $p$ respectively , and $L_p(T)=1$ when the curve has additive reduction at $p$.
How was the quadratic equation on R.H.S ( i.e $1-a_pT+pT^2$ ) formulated ? Was it a scaffolding to get some heuristic output later , or it has a specific meaning derived from something, or what ? Same with $1-T$ and $1+T$ .
Please do explain me , I am sorry my learned friends, if I have wasted your time, but every book I referred starts with Let, and I thought that its just a setting . If you want me to suggest some book that does the same task of explaining what I asked, you are welcome to suggest me .
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Quick brick: Beta Bridge painters revealed
A group of heretofore mysterious artists have finally been revealed as painters of the faux brick design that has covered the east side of Beta Bridge for the past month. Causing double-takes and comments from passersby, the project is also remarkable for its apparent role in preserving the orange and maroon "Hoos for Hokies" message painted on the bridge on the day of the Virginia Tech massacre.
"The day after [the massacre], everyone in class was very somber, though it's usually a lighthearted class," says Sara Brown, the UVA art professor who directed the project. "I think they were actually happy to be able to focus on a particular task.
"We've done this kind of thing as a final class project before," she adds, but since this year's project has become inevitably linked to the preservation of the emotional "Hoos for Hokies" message, it has enjoyed a different and more public success than previous ones have.
"Hoos for Hokies" went up April 16, and at press time it's still there. That gives it the distinction, according to local historians and a search of Cavalier Daily archives, of lasting longer than any other message since Beta Bridge became an ever-changing canvas in the 1970s.
This spring's class had been planning their project all semester, but plans changed when tragedy struck Virginia Tech with only two weeks of classes left.
"We decided that we didn't want to paint over the original Virginia Tech messages, but around them instead. So we planned the painting to be integrated with what was already there," Brown says. It turned out to be an apt challenge, since scenic painting, she says, is about "problem solving."
Brown says she originally planned to imitate old stone until she noticed the brick wall surrounding nearby Westminster Presbyterian Church. "We decided to mimic the brick right next to the bridge to make the painting more convincing," she explains.
Once they decided on the brick motif, the nine students in her class spent several class periods creating samples and testing techniques to execute what the French call a trompe l'oeil creation– one that "tricks the eye."
On Tuesday, May 1, their last day of classes, students and teacher gathered at 8am and began by painting the bridge a base color to match the nearby brick. Next, they dipped strings in paint, pulled them taut, and snapped them against the wall to create mortar detail. Finally, they splattered different colored glazes on top, to mimic the various tones of aging brick.
"We did a lot of making up as we went," says Brown, who predicts that "Hoos for Hokies" and her class's surrounding design have a "good shot" of staying up the rest of the summer.
As for two congratulatory messages already painted over the "brick" the night before graduation exercises– one exclaiming "Woohoo," and another lauding 39-year-old dedicated graduate David Perez– Brown does not intend to retouch or restore.
"I actually like that it changes and people add to it," she says. "I read about David Perez' accomplishments in The Hook, and I think he deserves a 'Woohoo.'"


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Terry Ryan is being asked to do two things he's never done before: work with a sizable wad of cash and quickly put together a winner.
You can count me in among those who think he's the best man for the job of Twins general manager. But getting things turned around fast enough to suit an irritated fan base is going to take a miracle. Bill Smith left a mess. It will take more than a mop and a bucket to clean it up.
Ryan's restructuring of the coaching staff shows he means business. After all, the Twins pretty much never fire anybody. They usually just shuffle employees into different positions. But Ryan served notice that lack of results will lead to change and that no one is safe from this point forward.
Barring significant trades, he's probably going to have $30 million to $35 million freed up this winter. Some of that will go toward raises to current players. But he's still going to have more money to work with than he's ever had. That's good … I think.
Ryan made a name for himself as a general manager by successfully operating a franchise under low-budget Carl Pohlad. He excelled at having replacement parts in stock when Twins players developed into stars and moved on to big money elsewhere. The highlight of the winter used to be the Rule 5 draft, when he'd pilfer a serviceable player from another organization.
He never was flashy and rarely made a big splash. He built the contending teams of the 2000s piece by piece over several years. Many of his successful trades involved moving players just ahead of their free agency. In other words, he was very good at making do. Ryan worked wonders with limited resources.
In later years, the payroll was increased, primarily as a public relations tool while the franchise was seeking a new facility. He came on board for a second stint as general manager last November and inherited a large payroll that was pretty much spoken for. Other than the money freed up by Michael Cuddyer's departure, he didn't have a lot of wiggle room.
He had some success signing several free agents on the fly. But he admits he wasn't as up to speed as he is now after a full season back on the job. Now he has specific knowledge of the team's shortcomings and a pocketful of dough. Most people expect him to plunge that money into the free-agent market and immediately turn the Twins into a contender. There's just no way.
The Twins need a 20-game improvement just to be respectable. And while you can point to a rapid-turnaround team such as, say, Oakland, keep in mind that there was plenty of young pitching ready to come up to the A's and make an impact. The Twins already have tried every young pitcher who can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Another problem that rarely gets mentioned is that the Twins were horrid defensively. It's so bad that they were auditioning potential .190 hitters around second base as the season drew to a close. Anyone who could catch the ball got a tryout.
A high-end free-agent pitcher isn't going to be enough to turn this around. The farm system has to start cranking again. The draft has been spotty in recent years, too. And an organizational hallmark, the emphasis on fundamentals and defense, is wasted on several Twins who appear to have virtually no aptitude for the game.
All this has to change. I can't imagine it changing in the next five months. The current mess has nothing to do with money. It has everything to do with bad decisions.
If Ryan is on his game, he will be able to handle this newfound financial prosperity and improve the Twins significantly for 2013. Perhaps he can get them from 90-plus losses to .500. But there is no magic pill here.
He doesn't need a star free-agent pitcher; he needs five useful pitchers. He needs guys who can catch the ball and know how to think the game. The lineup is OK, although not particularly clutch. There's just an awful lot to be done.
Ryan probably is the only one even qualified to attempt this turnaround. I figure he will err on the side of caution when it comes to dishing out big contracts. The Twins don't need glitzy ornaments. They need an influx of solid, useful ballplayers.
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China's export growth is set to rebound from a three-month low in December, although the recovery is likely to be feeble as U.S. and European demand for Chinese goods is still far below levels that would herald a convincing revival.
In a sign that exports have been the biggest drag on China's economy in the past two years, Thursday's economic data should also show the world's fastest-growing major economy missing its 10 percent growth target for trade for 2012.
Analysts polled by Reuters expect the value of Chinese exports to grow 4 percent in December from a year ago, up from November's surprisingly weak annual 2.9 percent rise, when data showed China exported fewer TVs, watches, plastics and shoes.
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The value of imports is forecast to rise 3 percent in December from a year earlier, also improving from November when there was no growth. Economists warned any bounce in trade may be brief as foreign demand for Chinese exports would stay listless.
"Given that the global economy is likely to have a weak start to 2013, the challenge on the external sector will remain in the next one to two quarters," JPMorgan said, adding that China's trade probably grew 5.6 percent last year.
China's Commerce Ministry last month also cautioned against hoping for an imminent recovery in trade, saying that world economic growth remained languid and that the country's trade likely grew 6 percent in 2012.
Figures from other Asian export heavyweights suggest that the trade outlook is mixed at best. Exports from South Korea unexpectedly fell last month, though the government blamed the poor performance on fewer working days.
Exports from Taiwan, on the other hand, surpassed expectations to rise to three-month highs, although analysts warned that shipments may have been lifted by the year-end shopping season.
China's trade sector, a key part of the country's growth engine that supports an estimated 200 million jobs, has been a drag on the world's second-largest economy for seven straight quarters.
Net exports from China have subtracted from growth in its gross domestic product (GDP) since March 2011, and had shaved 0.4 percentage points off GDP expansion in the third quarter.
With Europe, the biggest buyer of China's exports, expected to sink deeper into recession this year, analysts say it is another difficult year for Chinese trading firms.
Chinese exports to Europe slumped 18 percent from a year ago in November, their sharpest drop since August 2009. Shipments to the United States also struggled, slipping nearly 3 percent in their first fall since February 2011.
Southeast Asia, the third-biggest buyer of Chinese goods, was a rare bright spot. Exports to the region were up over 19 percent in November on an annual basis, though the performance was dismal compared with October, when shipments leapt 45 percent.


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Looking back at staff and faculty accomplishments
December 10, 2012
From helping to develop a pet therapy program to being honored for outstanding teaching, Lewis & Clark staff and faculty made headlines in 2012 for numerous accomplishments.
The following sampling of headlines from 2012 gives a sense of the laudable endeavors of our faculty and staff.
College of Arts and Sciences
Award-winning science professors inspire tomorrow's innovations
Dean Hunter earns award from Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program
Professor Odenbaugh featured on Philosophy Talk episode
Students name Iva Stavrov teacher of the year
Graduate School of Education and Counseling
Dean Fletcher elected president of the Oregon Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
Hanna Neuschwander publishes guide for the coffee obsessed
Professor Brown honored for community service
Law School
Dean Klonoff participates in Nobel Peace Laureate Forum
Professor Rohlf honored for outstanding teaching
Sara Chambers gives law students a new leash on life during finals week
Common Services (staff who work for a department that serves the entire institution)
Bonny Benton honored as volunteer of the year
Morgan Grether named director of new media, shares love of LC on Instagram
Mark Dahl named director, offers vision for Watzek Library
Pubcom staff members collect awards
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Malawians appear to widely support Thursday's sentencing of a gay couple here to 14 years in prison for practicing homosexuality, despite widespread condemnation of the case from human rights groups and foreign governments.
Many Malawians say being gay is unnatural and unpatriotic, and they welcomed the jail sentence as a repudiation of secular culture.
"These practices should not be allowed in Malawi," says Rose Chipumphula, 25, a mother who lives in the village of Ntcheu. "Let us be proud of our culture. We should at all costs avoid importing cultures and practices that will harm us in future."
In a country where 80 percent of the population practices Christianity, homosexuality is widely condemned on religious grounds.
"My religion and my church are against same sex marriages. The Bible says he who finds a wife has found a good thing… It does not say the man who finds a man or a woman who finds a woman. This whole thing is un-Christian," says Chipumphula.
At a church function here in April, President Bingu wa Mutharika said homosexuality is a new phenomenon in Malawi and asked priests to pray for the country to rid it of this "unMalawian" practice. Information Minister Sausten Namakhwa has said the government will arrest any homosexuals who identify themselves.
Criticism from financial donors US, UK
Thursday's conviction only highlights Malawi's discrimination toward homosexuals. Magistrate Nyakwawa Usiwa Usiwa sentenced Tiwonge Chimbalanga, a 20-year-old hotel janitor, and his unemployed partner Steven Monjeza, 26, to the maximum 14 years imprisonment with hard labor, following their conviction Tuesday for "gross indecency" and "unnatural acts" under a British-colonial era law. They were arrested Dec. 26.
"I find that the state has established its case beyond reasonable doubt," Magistrate Usiwa said Thursday, adding that the acts were "against the order of nature." Both men were forced to undergo an involuntary anal examination and psychiatric evaluation.
Defense lawyers have not indicated if they will appeal.
The United States and Britain immediately condemned the sentencing.
"We view the criminalization of sexual orientation and gender identity as a step backward in the protection of human rights in Malawi," the US Embassy said in a statement today.
A joint statement from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said it was "deeply dismayed by the conviction." Despite progress on human rights in recent years, today's sentencing "runs counter to a positive trend," the statement reads.
Criticism also came from The Common Approach to Budgetary Support (Cabs), an aid coordinator made up of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Norway, Britain, Germany, the World Bank, the IMF, and the European Commission. Cabs contributes about $500 million to Malawi's government, or about 40 percent of the budget.
"Laws criminalizing homosexuality and gender identity criminalize the legitimate exercise of these human rights, which are protected in treaties ratified by Malawi, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the African Charter on Human and People's Rights," read the statement.
It was unclear, however, if the conviction would translate into reduced donor funding.
NGOs oppose
Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, also condemned the ruling and called for the pair's release. Amnesty warned that the convictions risk driving other gay Malawian's underground, making it more difficult for them to have access to information on HIV prevention and health services. In Malawi, nearly 1 million people – an estimated 12 percent of the population – are living with HIV.
"Sending two to prison won't solve the problem," says Undule Mwakasungura, executive director of the Center for Human Rights and Rehabilitation.
"Nobody was harmed by their consensual actions. There was no complaint or victim and these are the issues we have to look at," says Gift Trapence, executive director of the Center Development of People (Cedep).
Law reflects public sentement
But despite the criticism and risk of losing donor support, Malawi's anti-homosexuality law appears to roundly reflect popular sentiment here and across Africa, where 37 countries ban homosexuality outright.
Bartholomew Kawina, a local journalist who lives the southern town of Balaka, says that he believes homosexuality is against nature. "They [homosexuals] are here because of procreation," says Kawina. "In my view homosexuals have a big problem. To me homosexuality does not make sense."
Ernest Mahwayo, 30, who lives in the village of Ntcheu, says the court was merely following "the laws of Malawi."
"Homosexuality is viewed as something dirty, unhealthy, and very much against Malawian culture," he says.


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Do you ever look at people on Facebook and wonder why they have so many—or so few—friends? It turns out that the number of friends you list online may be linked to your brain structure. New research in Proc B has found that the amount of grey matter in specific areas of our brain is correlated to the number of friends we have on Facebook, even though there's no correlation with real-world social network size.
Researchers already knew that the size of our real-life social network is related to amygdala size, presumably because the volume of this area of the brain limits the amount of social information we can process; those with large amygdalae tend to have larger groups of friends and acquaintances than those with smaller amygdalae. Since Facebook and other social networks have become so popular, researchers have begun to wonder whether this relationship holds true for online networks as well, or whether other regions of the brain are more closely correlated to the number of friends we have online.
A group of British undergraduates served as as the subjects for this experiment, since college students are particularly active in online social networks. These 125 students were given MRI scans, and the results of these scans were compared to the number of friends the subjects listed on their Facebook page. Grey matter densities in three areas of the brain—the left middle temporal gyrus, the right posterior superior temporal sulcus, and the right entorhinal cortex—were positively correlated to the size of the participants' online social network. Amygdala volume was similarly correlated to the number of Facebook friends.
These areas of the brain are functionally tied to social cognition. The right posterior superior temporal sulcus, for example, helps us anticipate and understand others' intentions. The right entorhinal cortex is associated with the formation of memories between pairs of things, such as names and faces.
To replicate the findings of previous work, the researchers also determined the real life social network size of the subjects by asking a set of questions. These questions asked how many friends' numbers were in their cell phone, how many people they think would do them a favor, and how many people were at their last birthday party. This confirmed that in this sample, as in previous research, amygdala size was related to real life social network size. No other focal regions of the brain predicted the number of friends the participants had in real life.
So, if the regions of the brain associated with online social network size are implicated in social cognition, why don't they also predict the size of real life social networks? There isn't a great answer to this question yet. The researchers behind the study believe that different aspects of social cognition may mediate online relationships and real life relationships. For instance, social networks are often larger than networks in real life, so associative memory may play a larger role online.
There are still a lot of unknowns here; for instance, we don't yet know if these relationships hold true for other age groups. We also don't have any idea how much of this association is due to nature and how much to nurture. In any case, it's a good start to understanding what cognitive skills are important in online relationships compared to real relationships, and how our brains may dictate the sizes of these networks.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2011. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1959 (About DOIs).


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I was going to do an "I Spy..." post today, but found myself loving these cute watercolor renderings by Inslee and Caitlin!
Just wanted to share, not a whole lot of words needed......
These bathing beauties are so wonderful, simple and stylish :)
Are you ready for a camel ride? I actually did this with my mother and sister one summer while on vacation...
And in the spirit of the Oscars, a little bling!
Tea canisters can be so pretty, why not line 'em up?
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Microsoft demoed the latest developer preview of IE9 during the PDC 2010 keynote. Much like earlier previews, this one doesn't have much in the way of a UI. It's effectively a toolbar and the new rendering engine. The engine is wicked fast, however, and Microsoft has a number of demos that really put it through its paces.
The lack of UI is kind of a bore, so we asked how to make it more useful (and Microsoft told us). If you'd like to make it look and act like the beta (including all the chrome and new UI features), we have instructions. But first... a video!
How to enable a real UI
This IE9 process will now have all the platform capabilities of Internet Explorer Platform Preview 6 with the user experience features of IE9 Beta. It's important to note: If a user takes these steps, the IE9 Beta browser will not be replaced by a newer version of IE9. However, in order for the newly created IE process to run with the enhanced platform capabilities provided in Platform Preview 6, all prior IE windows must be closed before running the new IE process from the IE9_PP6 folder.
- Install IE9 Beta on your machine. You can download IE9 Beta from www.beautyoftheweb.com
- Install Internet Explorer Platform Preview 6. You can download Platform Preview 6 from www.ietestdrive.com
- Create a folder on your Desktop called IE9_PP6
- Copy the iexplore.exe file from the C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer directory (or C:/Program Files (x86)/Internet Explorer if you are on a 64 bit machine) to the IE9_PP6 folder
- Create a folder inside IE9_PP6 called iexplore.exe.local (Note: It is imperative that you name this folder exactly as specified)
- Navigate to the Internet Explorer Platform Preview directory within Program files (commonly on 32 bit machines this will be at C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer Platform Preview and on 64 bit machines this will be at C:/Program Files (x86)/Internet Explorer Platform Preview)
- Copy the contents of the iepreview.exe.local folder within the Internet Explorer Platform Preview directory to the iexplore.exe.local folder within IE9_PP6
- Close all instances of IE running on your machine and run iexplore.exe from IE9_PP6
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Ascension and Session
Christians are called to be good citizens who pay their taxes and pray for their political leaders (Rom. 13:1–7; 1 Tim. 2:1–2). But only One deserves unquestioned allegiance—Jesus Christ. Let us resolve in our hearts now that we will serve ...Read More
Appearances of the Resurrected Lord
When God determines to save someone, nothing can stop Him, not even the person's "free will." The Lord effectively persuades all those whom He has chosen, regenerating them by His Spirit, giving them the gift of faith, and working in ...Read More
Fearful Women
Our actions tend to reveal what we really believe, so if we believe Christ has been raised from the dead, we must tell the world. And we tell the world by telling those with whom we have personal contact about ...Read More
The Common Act of Resurrection
Because the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit all have the same essence, they must work in common toward creation. One person of the Trinity is not more powerful than another, nor is any divine work the exclusive act of just ...Read More
The Rolled-Back Stone
The women went to the tomb while not expecting anything out of the ordinary. Often, we also go about our days the same way. Yet, as we serve a God who loves to delight us by surprising us with good ...Read More
With a Rich Man in His Death
John Calvin comments that in Jesus' burial, "the cursing, which he had endured for a short time, began to be removed; for his body was not thrown into a ditch in the ordinary way, but honorably laid in a hewn ...Read More
Faithful Women
Even if we deny God before others, He will forgive us when we repent. However, an impenitent refusal to be identified as a follower of Jesus is an indication that saving faith is not present. Are you prepared to stand ...Read More
The Centurion's Confession
Dr. R.C. Sproul says in His commentary Mark that the centurion was "the first to realize that something of cosmic significance was happening that afternoon outside Jerusalem." The centurion was among those most unlikely to recognize Jesus and yet ...Read More
Jesus Forsaken
Dr. R.C. Sproul writes in his commentary Mark, "At the climax of that period of darkness, Jesus cried in agony—not the agony of the scourging or the agony of the thorns and nails, but the agony of forsakenness." The ...Read More
The Priest Who Intercedes Perfectly
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World Trade Center is about just that the attacks on, and the collapse of, the twin towers on September 11, 2001. But 45 minutes in, a viewer might easily forget the movie is set during that nightmarish day. There is little talk of terrorism, and scant suggestion that a mighty nation felt suddenly vulnerable and besieged. The filmmaker does not cut away to discussions of fury and vengeance; televisions are on everywhere, but there are few whispers of who did this or why or how they will pay for what they have done. Instead, we are in but two places: trapped with Port Authority Police Department officers Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin beneath beams and girders and concrete and ash, and in the dens of their families awaiting the inevitable grim news that they're among the thousands to have lost kin in the World Trade Center. For all the grim baggage it carries with it to the multiplex, World Trade Center might as well be a movie about any two men buried beneath the surface trying to stay alive even as their wives and children and parents and friends believe them dead.
The sole nod to the impending War on Terror, which would become as much a catchphrase and brand name as a military action, are the sequences involving Dave Karnes (Michael Shannon). He's a real-life Marine who witnesses the attacks on television and marches out of his suit-and-tie job in Connecticut and straight into a barber shop for a high-and-tight haircut before shipping himself off to Ground Zero. But even there, he's a man on a mission (from God, perhaps), there to rescue those stranded beneath the ruins; only toward the movie's end does he hint that there is other work to be done in faraway places. Early test audiences did not even believe Karnes was a real person; they thought him little more than a Hollywood fabrication a do-gooder invented and inserted into a surprisingly feel-good film.
No doubt you already know that Oliver Stone directed World Trade Center, as there was much harrumphing when it was announced he was attached to the project. Surely, his would be a work fueled by paranoia and rage a we-dunit, perhaps, or a blood-thirsty act of retribution by a man who puts the "maniac" in megalomaniac. That it's not even close is news enough: Not since Heaven and Earth, his codeine-drip-paced closer to his Vietnam trilogy, has Stone made something so restrained and, dare one say, contemplative (or conventional, for that matter). It's as accessible as any Movie of the Week, possessing none of the filmmaker's blustery razzle-dazzle; it might as well have been made for A&E. We don't even see the planes hitting the buildings, only their shadows as they pass overhead. This is ground-level storytelling, where rumbles and thuds say more than anything the director chooses to show, or not to show.
Which is not to diminish its impact or import: World Trade Center is the first Oliver Stone movie not about Oliver Stone. It's about Jimeno (Crash's Michael Peña) and McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage, looking gaunt and weary), who walked into the towers on September 11 and were pulled out on September 12 by firemen, paramedics, and Marines who doubted anyone survived the buildings' collapse. It's also about their wives Allison Jimeno (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who cannot imagine a life without her husband, and Donna McLoughlin (Maria Bello), who already lives her life as though her husband is a remote, absent figure and their families, who strain and crack just a little as the hours pass. And it's about the men who rescued Jimeno and McLoughlin, including Chuck Sereika (Frank Whaley), a disgraced paramedic with an expired license who quietly redeems himself by doing a job he thought he'd never do again.
Without being too glib about it, World Trade Center is a most improbable thing: an upbeat film about September 11, one of the few stories to emerge from that day to come with a happy ending. Those who stayed away from the superior United 93, which was as devastating as World Trade Center is uplifting, will find here something more palatable not a memorial to the dead, but a commemoration of the living. The movie's really about but one thing: how do average people men who climb out of bed in the wee hours to trundle off to low-paying jobs that involve them shooing off hustlers and prostitutes, and the women who marry them and tolerate them and forgive them and love them deal with tragedy?
The movie has little to do with the enormity of the day. Fact is, most of what we see are the faces of Peña and Cage, their eyes the only things visible beneath soot and smoke. What, Stone and first-time screenwriter Andrea Berloff seem to wonder, keeps people on the verge of death from giving in? In Jimeno's case, it's his religion; a devout Catholic, he's buoyed by the recurring image of Christ toting a bottle of water. In McLoughlin's case, it's his marriage or what it was and could be, after years of taking his wife for granted. Heroism, the film suggests, also involves seizing the chance to fix a life rather than taking the easy way out by closing one's eyes.
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If you're looking for a headline to capture our technological times, this recent one might fit the bill: "The DIY kid-tracking drone."
To help keep a close eye on his child, American parent Paul Wallich adapted a quadcopter to follow a GPS chip in his son's backpack to the bus stop every morning on the way to school: an ingenious outsourcing of parental responsibility, and a formidable piece of hacking to boot. What, though, does this say about the increasing delegation not only of daily tasks to machines, but of potentially life-changing decisions themselves?
Take a life and death dilemma that could soon be science fact rather than fiction. As psychology professor Gary Marcus pointed out in a recent piece for The New Yorker, driverless cars are now street-legal in three American states and could soon be cruising into a garage near you. But if your driverless car were hypothetically to encounter a bus full of schoolchildren on the wrong side of the road, how should it react: should it make a decision to swerve, preventing a collision but putting your life at risk; or should it collide with the bus if there's a greater chance of you surviving? "If the decision must be made in milliseconds," Marcus reasons, "the computer will have to make the call."
Cars are an interesting case study because they already represent one of the most hazardous technological environments most of us enter on a regular basis – and because the belief that technology should make this environment as safe as possible has been accepted, and been saving lives, for decades. As a famous adage of product design puts it, once you've built the car, your task is not simply to hope that you can prevent all accidents, but to design a better car crash – that is, to make those inevitable occasions on which things go wrong as unlikely as possible to cause fatal harm.
Minimising harm is a clear enough good. What happens, though, to ethical issues in design when the product you're creating is itself going to be making decisions?
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Marcus' driverless car scenario riffs off the famous "trolley problem": a thought experiment that asks subjects to decide between pushing one man off a bridge in order to save the lives of several others trapped in the path of a runaway railway trolley, or allowing that one man to survive while the others meet their doom. Most respondents are unwilling physically to push another human being to their death even if it would save multiple lives – one of the factors the test is designed to measure. A machine's response, though, would depend entirely upon the decision-making model encoded by its creators. One robot might refuse to act; one might save the many; one might not even recognize a choice exists. It's up to us to decide which program to write. But once we've done it and set things in motion, it's up to them.
Programming this into cars is one thing. Weapons are quite another – and represent perhaps the most urgent testing-ground for machine ethics today. Early this December, Iran boasted that it had captured a US ScanEagle drone over its airspace; one of the most basic models of the thousands of unmanned aerial vehicles that have become the standard stuff of warfare over the last decade.
Like Paul Wallich's child-minding quadcopter, most drones are more like sophisticated remote-controlled aircraft than autonomous decision-makers. Late November, though, saw some of the first tests of what some news outlets colourfully labelled a "killer robot": a US Navy stealth drone piloted by artificial intelligence. Snappily named the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System, the 19m- (62ft-) wide aircraft is designed to take split-second decisions on its own initiative – and even land itself on an aircraft carrier – while remaining under the overall control of human operators.
As much as anything, it's the relationship between these human operators and their subject that's most disturbing. Thought experiments like the trolley problem demonstrate something self-evident but extremely significant in moral thinking: how our sense of obligation is modified by distance and immediacy. We feel differently about pushing someone off a bridge with our own hands than we do about pushing a button to achieve the same result. Weapons are real-world examples of this: the arrow differs from the fist, the rifle from the arrow, the bomb from the gun. And by the time you reach autonomous systems, many of the "actions" setting them in motion will have taken place months or even years ago: as part of a process of programming and design whose eventual consequences may be entirely unknowable.
If all this sounds rather removed from real life, it's worth remembering that the cutting edge of today's battlefield will represent little more than the state-of-the-art in domestic appliances a decade from now. Such is the speed of technological change, and the steady migration of its moral conundrums towards the mass market.
It's a field in which the ghostly outlines of future controversy are already clearly visible. If a drone can oversee your child's journey to school today, will it be driving you both to work tomorrow – and should you insist on this, if the machine is demonstrably a safer driver than you? If robot soldiers can fight for your country without risking your sons' and daughters' lives, should you gratefully embrace automated warfare?
These are new questions, but answering them means grappling with ancient ethical issues about responsibility. What does it mean to hold someone responsible not only for their actions, but for the chains of consequence they set snaking through the world? And what does it mean to exercise human ingenuity responsibly, given the ever-expanding scope of our powers?
Ironically, the best contemporary answer may mean giving up some of that power – and asking what it means to create machines that can take responsibility for themselves.
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Well, this challenge was perfect timing for my nephew's son's birthday who turned 2. The challenge over at Paper Cupcakes was brought to us by Gloria Westerman and she wanted us to make a child's birthday card. I used the image Baby Rhino's Day for this card and colored it with my colored pencils. I made the card and then stuck it in the envelope and hoped no glue stuck to the inside. The pictures aren't so great, but that's what happens when you do a make and take! The top picture is more true to color.
I have another card I started that was for an older child, so I will see if I can get it completed and posted this week as well.
Going to keep this short and sweet today, because we have been gone most of the weekend and got home around 8:00PM and I am going to bed early tonight!! Next weekend is all basketball again, but it is the last of the season.
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It was a Los Angeles-based company inspired by Japanese shopping habits that brought pop-up retail to America. During a trip to Tokyo in 1999, Russ Miller witnessed the lengths to which the city's famously voracious consumers would go to buy rare and limited-edition products.
Mr. Miller brought that mind-set back to L.A. with Vacant, "a retail concept and exhibition store" that would open shops only to close them as soon as they ran out of goods.
Discount retailer Target once again positioned itself as the funky anti-Walmart when it took over a 220-foot-long boat at Chelsea Piers for a two-week stay on the Hudson River that coincided with Black Friday in November of 2002. Vacant arrived in New York in February 2003, working with Dr. Martens on a pop-up space at 43 Mercer Street.
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An Education Week analysis of data compiled by the U.S. Department of Education found that some schools suspended or expelled all or nearly all students without disabilities at least once during the 2009-10 school year, while others rarely used these forms of discipline. Read related story, "Suspension, Expulsion Data Cast Harsh Light on Some Schools".
Note: Data on suspensions and expulsions include only students without disabilities. Schools with obvious data-entry errors—specifically, those with results that showed they suspended or expelled more students than they enrolled—were excluded.
SOURCE: Education Week analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education office for civil rights
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Tape? You use tape to tape up a box? Do you have a death wish??
If you hadn't heard, tape is out, hinges are in. That's right, hinges have just made a huge comeback. They can tape stuff up now. We all thought they'd settled on doors, chests and other relics of a world once built upon wood and sweat and tobacco.
Then, BAM. Out of nowhere, hinges walk in to Scotch's party – Scotch hadn't planned on them showing up; the invite was out of courtesy. Scotch's mum was a friend of hinges' mum from back when they bonded in WWII because all supplies were pretty tight. But Scotch and hinges never talked. They travelled in different circles. Scotch was a playboy on a multi-decade, international bender. Hinges only ate out on weekends.
So back at the party, Scotch recovers from his shock that hinges showed up by nodding to his guests sympathetically, as if a three-legged mutt had scratched at his door and he had to do SOMETHING with it in the time between now and the time animal control arrived.
Hinges picks up on the polite condescension. And it's when Scotch hands him a drink that hinges takes the opportunity to lean in and say, in a confident voice just north of a whisper, "I do tape now."
And with that, hinges drinks his Martini in a single gulp, turns in a step and exits the party. As he walks out the door, the only weight on hinges' mind was that he'd never tasted such a fine gin. [Hinge Tape via Super Punch via boingboing]


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We've been excited for Slither director James Gunn's DIY superhero comedy Super since we saw extended footage at Comic-Con. The movie's been described as a no-budget Watchmen, and in this preview, Ellen Page is a domino-masked female Rorschach.
In this clip, Rainn Wilson (The Crimson Bolt) and his sociopathic sidekick Ellen Page (Bolty) beat the tar out of a guy who (might have) keyed a Jetta. As you can see, Crimson Bolt is less than thrilled about his ward's penchant for brawling.
Nathan Fillion, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, and Andre Royo (Bubbles from The Wire) also star. If you want to read more about this flick, check out our Comic-Con coverage.
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Study shows sperm production much greater in winter
SPERM production is at its peak during winter and early spring for most men, a new study has found.
However, gents with abnormal sperm production have the best luck in autumn, the findings out of Israel suggest.
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University looked at 6455 semen samples from men treated at an infertility clinic between 2006 and 2009.
They found sperm production was much greater in winter, and began declining in early spring.
Not only were counts up in colder months, but sperm swam much faster and had less abnormalities.
Autumn is typically a high point for the birth of new babies, Medical Daily reported.
Studies on other animals have shown seasonal effects on fertility, but it was previously unclear whether human sperm improved during certain times of year.
According to the participant's samples - 2,690 had normal sperm production and 1,495 had sperm problems, like a low count.
Anything over 15 million sperm per millilitre of semen is considered a normal count.
Men with normal sperm produced up to 70 million per millilitre during winter.
Some also swam faster, making it easier for a woman to get pregnant.
The following month it fell to about 68 million, only three per cent of which were speedy.
Changes in sperm could be related to temperature, the length of daylight exposure and hormone variation, according to Medical Daily.
The study was published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynocology.


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On Monday, Olugbenga (of Metronomy and DiS messageboard fame) releases Epic & Blues, which he explains "is comprised of wordless versions of remixes I've done in the last couple of years along with a couple of new original tracks," and he is "giving it away for free, but in a way it feels like my first proper release."
Before that Epic & Blues record drops on his Facebook on Monday, we have an exclusive stream of one of the tracks from the record, but first, we wanted to find out what the remix means to him...
In 1997 a gospel music group topped the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop chart for the first time and they did it off the back of a remix. I was 14 years old and living in Nigeria. It wasn't the first time I'd ever heard of a remix but I think it was the first time that I got the concept. Kirk Franklin & God's Property had recorded a song called 'Stomp'. Their album was complete and Stomp had been chosen as a lead single. They commissioned a hip-hop remix. Then Salt from Salt N Pepa jumped on it and added a verse. All of a sudden the remix got upgraded to the main version of the track and the original version was relegated to the end of the album.
Observing this happen framed my understanding of remixes as genre-specific alternative versions of a song, designed to catch the ears of people who might never hear the original version otherwise. It also showed me that sometimes a remix can just be another version of a song that doesn't require knowledge of the original to justify its existence. Almost like a cover, but not quite.
When I moved to North London in the mid-2000s after finishing university, two things happened that had a further effect on the way I viewed remixes (and electronic music in general). First, I heard the Minotaur Shock remix of a Bloc Party b-side called 'Tulips' - a watershed moment for a lot of guitar music fans. Then I met a guy called Ian Carter who was then producing as part of Various Production, a sorta-dubstep outfit known for their no-holds-barred approach to remixes. Ian recorded a couple of EPs for my old band Akira. We had a song called 'Soho (Was Always There For Me)' which Ian remixed and mutated into another song entirely called 'Soho', which ended up on the one album Various released for XL Records.
Working with Various gave me my first opportunity to actually see someone making a remix. My knowledge of music software was still pretty limited and prior to this my only experience of studios was brief one or two day visits with bands to record demos. Ian showed me the basics on some of the programs, perhaps most significantly on Ableton Live which is now my go-to for production and DJing. Some producers around this time never even really listened to the original version of a track they remixed because they wanted to start work with as blank a canvas as possible. They just took the vocal and went from there. I tried this myself with mixed results. These days I never go quite that far, but I think elements of that approach have certainly stayed with me.
We live in a time now where remixes can sometimes outnumber original songs twelve-to-one. If you don't believe me, take a look at how many versions there are of 'Reckless With Your Love' out there. With this proliferation comes some uncertainty on the part of listeners about their status. If a remix isn't for the club, what's it for? I'd point to the plethora of terms to describe them (refit, re-rub, refix, rework, version, edit, etc) as evidence of this anxiety on the part of producers too. In a way, I think a lot of us don't want to finish something a track and realise it's just another remix.
I don't let that bother me too much. Ten years ago I might have said that there are two kinds of remixes - ones for clubs and then all the other ones. Now I guess I'd say there are just good ones and bad ones. Who cares what they're for?
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"This was one of those tracks that came together quite quickly because I was up against a deadline. I was so up against it that when the vocal ideas came into my head, I had to record them on my laptop's built-in microphone - I didn't have anything better at home and didn't have time to go out and get a cheap mic.
Juxtaposition is a big part of what I do, and here the idea was taking a recording of someone speaking in tongues (one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit if you're an Evangelical Christian) and embedding it into this white noise-infused not-quite-hiphop track. That and all the pitch-shifted vocals (another big part of my style) give the whole thing a slightly eerie quality that I like."
Epic & Blues an instrumental EP of remixes and original material will be available to download for free on his Facebook page on the 23rd July.
You can catch Olugbenga Djing at the following shows
19.07 - Smashing Blouse @ XOYO, London, UK.
22.07 - Soundwave Festival, Croatia.
27.07 - Kendal Calling @Lowther Deer Park, Lake District, UK.
30.07 - Skint Mondays, Reading, UK.
17.08 - Summer Sundae, Leicester, UK.
20.08 - Lola Lo @ Indigo, Norwich, UK.
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